Kate Moss’ eerie W Magazine photos by Steven Klein
Yesterday we got our first look at the cover of March’s W Magazine, the “Spring Fashion Bible”. Kate Moss is the cover girl.
The accompanying interview compares the 38-year-old model to the beautiful Dorian Grey, the protagonist in Oscar Wilde’s renowned novel who sells his soul to stay young while an ageing portrait in his attic reminds him of the effects of his debauched lifestyle.
Author Will Self writes on the magazine’s website: ‘Moss has aged and continues to age—not gracefully, for she’s a suburban hellion from the outer limits of Cockneydom, but beguilingly.
‘I think first of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s amorality tale, who looks upon the portrait of himself in the fullest fruition of youth and wishes that it would age in his stead.
‘The truth is that (Kate’s) 38, twice married, and the mother of a 9-year-old girl. Her life has been a slalom through the toxicities of fame and success.’
‘Dark Moss and Light Moss. Bad Kate and Good Little Katie—simple dichotomizing is not what this dyad deserves. I look at the pictures of Moss dressed in black and think perhaps they’re of a great beauty meditating upon her own inner ugliness.’
See several more pictures here!
