The fag-smoking, sequin-wearing supermodel is showing no signs of growing up – thank God. As the on-set shots from Ab Fab: The Movie prove, she’s pure panto
‘All children, except one, grow up,” JM Barrie wrote in the first line of Peter Pan in 1904; a century later, Kate Moss came along and proved him wrong. And that is why we love Mossy so much, because like Peter, she never grows up, so she never gets boring. For everyone else even the most glorious youth must either crash and burn, or come to a slow halt in middle-aged respectability. Only Moss keeps on keeping on. She is our very own naughty fairy.
Which is why the photos of Moss in a green sequin dress on the set of the Absolutely Fabulous film sum up everything we want to be, do and wear this Christmas. To recap: Moss is appearing in the forthcoming Ab Fab movie, and has been papped on set, on the banks of the Thames. To the ranks of Botticelli’s Venus and Ursula Andress in Dr No, we can now add a modern wet-look goddess. Moss walks out of the river, smoking, soaked to the skin, in a floorlength green sequin gown, Thames water dripping off those cheekbones. A month after the first photos of Absolutely FabuMoss appeared, she was back on set last week wearing the same green dress, this time teamed with a Burberry leopard-print coat and a scruffy pair of Adidas trainers. Queen.
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