For their March Issue, W Magazine decided to split Kate Moss in half. A beautiful dichotomy of the Good and the Bad (..though perhaps Sultry and Ethereal are more appropriate) appears on the beautiful cover, shot by the wonderful Steven Klein. For the Vampy half, Klein captured a sensual and worldly Moss dressed in leather and lace (how poetic!) and adorned with a voluptuous burgundy pout. Flip that image and out comes a more ethereal, pure Kate- a vision in white and a face gleaming with an angelic sheen. It's almost quite ironic seeing Moss in a Vestal get-up considering the bad girl image she had carved for herself for years! But then again, being blissfully married and having a career that is still running at full steam can be just what the girl needs in her life for the moment.
W's Editor Stefano Tonchi comments, "As I sat through the spring collections in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, I kept thinking about the dichotomy between 'good girls' and 'bad girls.' It's an old trope that the fashion world loves to recycle every few seasons [...] This season, however, the good girls seemed to constantly stray into bad-girl territory, and vice versa. Designers are too savvy to go for straightforward cliches, and what I found most interesting was the way in which they tweaked familiar archetypes."
I guess that definitely makes Kate the perfect candidate. What a beautiful and happy medium!
What do you think of the cover?
