At the start of Paris Fashion Week, Kate Moss launches her new book at the iconic Hotel Crillon
The supermodel shares 100 curated vintage pieces in her new book with Yarur Bascuñán on vintage fashion and Chile’s Museo de la Moda
If anyone knows a thing or two about fashion, it’s supermodel Kate Moss. And if anyone knows anything about vintage fashion, it’s Kate Moss. Discovered 30+ years ago, the British model has strutted runways all over the world, becoming acquainted with sartorial attires through the decades. So, it’s no surprise to us that she edited a book on vintage fashion, Musings on Fashion and Style: Museo de la Moda, based on the Museo de la Moda, a museum in the skinny nation of Chile that stretches the western part of South America’s edge.
At the start of Paris Fashion Week, Moss talked with Seele on the book that she collaborated with Jorge Yarur Bascuñán on, at a launch party at Paris’ Hotel Crillon. Guests included shoe designer, Christian Louboutin; Edward Enniful, the Editor of British Vogue; and of course, Kate Moss.
When asked why she chose a book on vintage fashion, Kate didn’t even need to muse, “that’s easy and simple, it’s because I love vintage fashion.”
It was on a trip to Chile that Moss connected with Bascuñán, the director Fundación Museo de la Moda in the capital of Santiago. Together the two have created a successful book that details a personally curated selection of her favourite couture and costume pieces, going back to the 19th century.
“Kate Moss was coming to Chile and someone told me she was coming,” recalls Bascuñán. “They asked me if I would be interested in meeting her at the museum [the Museo de la Moda], and I said ‘yes, she’s very well known in fashion.’ We saw the collection and I saw how much she loved vintage clothing and fashion history.”
It was there that Bascuñán proposed that they make a book together. “We just started talking about it and now we have a book together,” he says.
Dressed in a floor-length leopard print vintage gown, Kate was the center of attention the whole evening. On her left hand she wore a ring by former actress Elizabeth Taylor. “I was in Chile and met with Bascuñán. I found out that we both had a beauty appreciation for vintage clothes,” says Kate. “So, we talked about doing a book but he wanted to do a new take on the focus he had. And, to go into the archives of fashion history was fascinating for me- to see the changes of fashion history over time.”
Fashion curator, Lydia Kamitsis contributes to the book, detailing fashion trends over the decades. Looking at 100 chosen pieces of sartorial style that inspired the supermodel’s own style, the reader is transported back to the 1920s, the 1960s, Jimi Hendrix’s tunics, and various street styles
“I’m a bit overwhelmed but very happy to be here,” said Bascuñán of the evening. “The book makes sense. It’s about a relationship with vintage clothing, related to a museum that focuses on fashion history, which is really unique.”
Guests dined over canapés from the balcony of the Hotel Crillon, while having the option to view a few of the pieces from the 100-piece collection from the book. The book can be purchased on Amazon or directly from the book’s publisher, Rizzoli.
