Pages

Sunday 13 January 2013

It's so hard being a supermodel: Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell moan about pressures of stardom as they interview each other in German magazine

They are two of the world’s best-known jet-setting supermodels – regularly photographed relaxing on super yachts, hopping between homes on various continents and supported by a retinue of personal assistants and domestic staff.
But Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell – members of the supermodel generation who famously wouldn’t get out of bed for less than £10,000 – have revealed their biggest gripe in life is that they just don’t get enough time to themselves.

The comment came as the two grand-dames of fashion quizzed each other for German magazine Interview – and posed for a series of black and white semi-nude photographs to celebrate their mutual admiration. More pictures after the cut.....

Mother-of-one Kate, who lives in an £8 million house in North London and has a country home in the Cotswolds, opens proceedings by asking Naomi, who is worth an estimated £31 million if, ‘You often have the feeling, like me, that there is never any time for yourself?’
With no hint of irony, Naomi, who has a £12 million waterside home in Miami, a Manhattan apartment and properties in Ibiza, Turkey and Jamaica, replies: ‘For me this is the case, but sometimes I try to do things differently. If I have a long trip home I say to myself, “Right, I’ll stay at home, look at iTunes TV, or simply do nothing at all.”’


‘I live on both coasts [of the US]. I change around. A little time spent in London, a little in New York, a little in Miami, a little in Moscow.
‘It was very nice that I was recently able to spend six weeks in New York, and it was also a little strange that I didn’t have to fly anywhere.
‘Earlier in life I always had a guilty conscience if I did nothing at certain times during the day. Today it is no longer like that. If I need a break in the day I will take one. Then I don’t answer the phone.
‘I like [the film] The Women a lot, the original by George Cukor. I love Martin Scorcese, The King Of Comedy and Taxi Driver. I love good acting and complicated characters.’
Asked by Kate if she also likes ‘trashy things’, Naomi, replies: ‘Yes, like Real Housewives. I watch American Idol or X Factor. Sometimes it is good just to switch off.  We all have from time to time a desire for gossip and trash.’
The comments come less than a month after Kate and her husband, Jamie Hince, frontman with band The Kills, enjoyed their latest break – a romantic working holiday in the Caribbean.
Meanwhile, Naomi was pictured relaxing on a Miami beach, recovering from an injury after being robbed in Paris in November.
In Interview, under the headline, ‘I Love You Kate; Naomi Campbell in conversation with Kate Moss’, the stars hold forth on other subjects – as varied as growing up in South London to the view that models are just ‘actresses [who] don’t speak’.
The one-on-one conversation is peppered with gushing tributes about Naomi’s charity work and memorable shoots with photographers such as Richard Avedon as the duo reflect on 20 years at the top of the fickle fashion industry.
The three-page conversation provides a gloriously unashamed insight into the lives of two fashion icons as they also discuss everything from their performance at the Olympics to their jaw-dropping personal fashion archives.
‘I have lots of pieces from the Thirties,’ Naomi says. ‘I found a good firm that documents it all. They are in my storeroom in New York. It is a pretty good collection and I have never given any of it away. Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Alaia, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Chanel. I have it all. Also Helmut Lang and early stuff from Dolce & Gabbana.’
Kate wants to pass on her own treasured collection to ten-year-old Lila Grace, her daughter from her relationship with magazine publisher Jefferson Hack.
But she reveals: ‘I have lost so much stuff. I don’t know where it all is. The fashion from back then was simply super. I collect things. I have heaps of [Vivienne Westwood] stuff. Now they are like museum pieces. I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that’s what it’s called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.’
The models, who refer to each other by the nickname ‘Wagon’ – understood to be a reference to tee-totallers falling off the wagon – go on to discuss their experience at the Olympic Closing ceremony in August, with Naomi revealing she got trapped moments before taking to the stage.
The star, who was booked to appear with seven other top models including Kate and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger’s daughter Georgia May as part of a celebration of British fashion, said: ‘We stood on this truck [before the show]. I’m only saying this so everyone will understand that it was not easy. It made me totally nervous, that we were all stuffed into this truck alone.
Culled From: Daily mail

No comments:

Post a Comment