Dora Black / 12 October 2024 / Categories: People, Creative

KATE MOSS

Collaboration with Zara

Can you bloody believe it?

I know no swearing but this is For emphasis only - note to editor hopes it stays in.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when WWD told me THIS.

It’s been 10 years since Kate Moss’s collaboration with Topshop ended 2007-2014 and we loved the clothes, there were queues around the block, cat fights to get your hands on the limited edition pieces, Kate said she had created with Philip Green from favourite vintage pieces she personally had loved, basically dupes or copies of her clothes.

The collections were a smash and still today considered collectors pieces, hard to source and going up in value, the opposite to any other piece of fast fashion produced at the time.

Since then Topshop has collapsed and the disgraced Fast Fashion tycoon is somewhere in the Mediterranean maybe off the coast of Monaco unable to return to the UK because of questionable dealings and unpaid tax.

The behaviour of Sir Philip Green so dubious acclaimed film director Michael Winterbottom based film Greed starring Steve Coogan on his life and quite frankly in my opinion not isolated to him past present or sadly future, terrible unscrupulous carry on. Whilst the movie is not a biopic about Sir Philip Green the movie was inspired by him. The goal, like other films in this genre, The True Cost Movie, River Blue, The Machinists and Luxury Behind the Mirror to alert us to the harm our addiction in the west to cheap disposable fashion is having and the havoc it is causing not just for the environment, but for so many garment workers, 80% of whom are women globally.

Whilst Sir Philip Green held onto his knighthood he may be the yesterday's man of British retail but there's still glamour in his life. The former Topshop owner, 71, has been lying low in Monaco since his Arcadia Group slid into administration in 2020, with the loss of 13,000 jobs.

Fast forward to 2024 and enter stage left another billionaire head of Inditex Spanish fashion tycoon Amancio Ortega and it looks to me like the same script just a different billionaire as The Kate Moss Agency along side stylist Katy England announce their latest multi million collaboration with fast fashion giant Zara.

I have long been a massive fan of Kate Moss, and I do have one piece from her Topshop collection in my wardrobe I adore and will never be giving away. After watching a documentary produced by Kim Kardashian (which actually changed my opinion on her a little bit) on the Life Of Elizabeth Taylor and the stalwart humanitarian groundbreaking work she did, I do believe it’s time, for her own wellbeing, (and before it’s too late) Kate thought about what her lasting legacy to British Fashion is going to be.

For me I just don’t want to see her go down the same road as Naomi Campbell, just for the money.