Kate Moss’s beauty secrets
Like the Queen, Kate Moss’s usual mantra is “never complain, never explain”. It’s a life philosophy which has seen her through years of supermodel stardom and even the occasional scandal. Her approach means that now, at 46, she’s as mysteriously cool as the girl posing for Corinne Day in the Nineties.
Moss is selective about the brands she works with and rarely appears on the catwalk (her last turn was for Kim Jones’s final Louis Vuitton men’s show in 2018) but she has been the face of luxe Japanese skincare brand Decorté since 2015, a gig which affords the opportunity to glean hints of her attitude to looking fabulous now.
First I ask for Moss’s pearls of wisdom on going barefaced – a pursuit at which she excels in both on holiday and at home. “I just cover up the bits I don’t like and then put a bit of bronzer on, kind of glowy like I haven’t got anything on, but I have,” she confides, perched on a plush cream sofa at Claridges.
Instead of relying on timeconsuming facials, Moss loves a Decorté sheet mask, which she’ll “throw on and then lie down for a bit”. She doesn’t profess to put
on a beauty miracle-worker the minute her plane takes off; “I feel a bit silly, I have done that before with a friend, but I don’t do it on my own.”
Despite years of being preened by the world’s best beauty technicians, there are some old-school methods Moss relies upon. “I put lipstick on my cheeks, but that’s kind of normal and I always use eyelash curlers, it wakes me up.”
Do supermodels have muses? For Moss, it’s Susie Cave, wife of Nick Cave and creator of ethereal fashion brand Vampire’s Wife. “She is so glamorous, every time I bump into her she just looks amazing. I am always in awe of her.” Moss’s approach to staying out of the sun and wearing SPF is characteristically relaxed. “I was very bad with sunscreen and then I was introduced to La Roche-posay, which is a fluid which doesn’t feel heavy so I wear that now.”
The desert island beauty product which gives her skin instant oomph is Decorté’s Vitality Tincture: “The smell is amazing and it’s so moisturising. I always pop it in my handbag.”