Kate Moss: The Ultimate Artist's Muse?
The immortalisation of Kate Moss continues apace. Yes, you remember a few years back when a number of leading Brit artists decided she was the icon of our times and did a show at White Cube where they exhibited all sorts of works of art created in her image? Back then we were treated to Kate in 7 freakish yoga poses by Marc Quinn (he later cast one in solid gold which now sits in The British Museum and is worth $1.5 in gold alone) and a painting of a her naked and pregnant by Lucian Freud which later sold for $7.5 million. Also just last year, acclaimed photographer Corrine Day took a new series of candid b+w passport style photos of Moss which were exhibited in The National Portrait Gallery in London (many people said the photos were unflattering and that Moss looks her age now).
Apparently though, the art world are not finished. Now none other than the ultra-prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are exploring the role of the fashion model as an artist’s muse, and Kate is of course taking centre stage.
There are other models such as Naomi Campbell and Twiggy – but are they even worth mentioning? We all know this is just another Kate-fest.
The Museum’s director Thomas Campbell announced the exhibition yesterday during a press conference that couldn’t have been more ‘fashion’ if they tried: He was flanked by Anna Wintour on one side and Marc Jacobs (who is sponsoring it) on the either – they were standing in front of the now-infamous Peter Lindbergh 1990 British Vogue cover portrait of Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. Thomas Campbell stepped forward and quoted Yves Saint Laurent, saying “A good model can advance fashion by 10 years’. Could it have gotten get any more ‘fashion’? We don’t think so! We LOVE it.
Harold Koda, curator of the museum’s costume institute, said the exhibition would show “how the great iconic beauties represent the evolution of the feminine ideal” over the past five decades.
Good old Marc Jacobs brought the press’s attention back to what the exhibition is really about though (KATE MOSS) by saying “Kate is a muse to a generation … she defines a time, a feeling, that has become part of history”.
What next? Kate Moss for Mayor of New York perhaps? Then everyone could at least start having fun again, that’s for sure. While I think this worship of Kate Moss by the art world is definitely rather slavish and embarrassing (and is no-doubt due to a general lack of other great beauties in her generation) – it is nonetheless to Moss’ credit that she continues to fascinate, even after all these years.
Apparently though, the art world are not finished. Now none other than the ultra-prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are exploring the role of the fashion model as an artist’s muse, and Kate is of course taking centre stage.
There are other models such as Naomi Campbell and Twiggy – but are they even worth mentioning? We all know this is just another Kate-fest.
The Museum’s director Thomas Campbell announced the exhibition yesterday during a press conference that couldn’t have been more ‘fashion’ if they tried: He was flanked by Anna Wintour on one side and Marc Jacobs (who is sponsoring it) on the either – they were standing in front of the now-infamous Peter Lindbergh 1990 British Vogue cover portrait of Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. Thomas Campbell stepped forward and quoted Yves Saint Laurent, saying “A good model can advance fashion by 10 years’. Could it have gotten get any more ‘fashion’? We don’t think so! We LOVE it.
Harold Koda, curator of the museum’s costume institute, said the exhibition would show “how the great iconic beauties represent the evolution of the feminine ideal” over the past five decades.
Good old Marc Jacobs brought the press’s attention back to what the exhibition is really about though (KATE MOSS) by saying “Kate is a muse to a generation … she defines a time, a feeling, that has become part of history”.
What next? Kate Moss for Mayor of New York perhaps? Then everyone could at least start having fun again, that’s for sure. While I think this worship of Kate Moss by the art world is definitely rather slavish and embarrassing (and is no-doubt due to a general lack of other great beauties in her generation) – it is nonetheless to Moss’ credit that she continues to fascinate, even after all these years.
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