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BBC Learning English
People and Places
Kate Moss
Callum: Hello, I’m Callum Robertson and this is People and Places.
One of the things that the British are known for is our ability to queue! If it
were an Olympic sport I’m sure we’d be favourites for the gold medal.
Recently there have been a number of queuing events which have made the
news. One was the release of a new bag, a plain shopping bag by the
supermarket Sainsbury’s. It was a bag by well known designer Anja
Hindmarch and was selling for only £5, about $10. Hundreds of Londoners
queued overnight to snap up this designer bargain. Although the bag was a
special promotion to encourage people to reuse the same bag for shopping, it
wasn’t long before they were being sold on internet auction sites for much
higher prices.
And at the beginning of May the high street clothes retailer Topshop launched
a new line of clothing designed by the British model Kate Moss. The shop’s
London branch was opened at midnight and attracted large crowds of shoppers
and onlookers. This is how BBC reporter Nick Cosgrove described the scene.
What does he say people in the crowd were hoping to do?
Nick Cosgrove
There are thousands of people here hoping to catch a glimpse of Kate Moss. Half of them are
queuing, the other half are wondering what is going on. And all for the opening of a shop, a
shop that’s open every day.
Callum: He says that the thousands of people were hoping to ‘catch a glimpse of’ Kate
Moss, which means they were hoping to see her. He went on to speak to some
of the people waiting to find out more about why there were there. What was
their answer?
Nick Cosgrove
Why are you here?
Well we like her, we like Kate Moss and we want to look like her, basically. Well the clothes,
and her style’s really nice.
Callum: They like Kate Moss and they want to look like her, they like her clothes and
style. Nick went on to speak to some other people who were queuing and
suggested to them that designer clothes were just a label, just a label. The
clothes are only popular because of the name that is in them, not because they
are good clothes. What did they think of this and how do they describe Kate
Moss? This is what they said.
Nick Cosgrove
Isn’t it just a label?
Voices
Yea but it’s the style of clothes, it’s Kate Moss, everyone wants to be like Kate Moss, It’s
Kate Moss, she’s gorgeous man, she’s stunning.
Callum: They liked the style of clothes and like the other people queuing they wanted to
be like Kate Moss. Two adjectives are used to describe her, gorgeous and
stunning. Gorgeous and stunning. Both of these are ways of saying that
someone is very good looking, very attractive.
At the moment in the UK celebrities are big business. Photos of them in the
tabloid papers increase the circulation of those papers so much that even grainy,
poor quality pictures from mobile phones can make the front page. This is
particularly true if the celebrity being pictured is doing something the paper
decides he or she shouldn’t be doing.
This kind of publicity has damaged the careers of many people in the public
eye but some celebrities are able to weather the storm of negative publicity and
still come out on top. Kate Moss is one such celebrity. Now in her thirties has
been a model since her mid-teens. The tabloid newspapers frequently write
about her rock and roll lifestyle and in 2005 one tabloid printed photos which
seemed to show her taking drugs. She wasn’t charged with any crime by the
police but she did lose a number of high-paying jobs as a result. However this
proved to be just a small blip and now she is even more successful and popular
than ever, at least with the public, if not the tabloids.
Why does she remain so popular? One reason commentators think this is is that
she very rarely gives interviews. Compared to other celebrities she is relatively
silent. Hadley Freeman, Deputy Fashion editor The Guardian newspaper
explains why being silent has been good for Kate Moss.
Hadley Freeman
Her silence is definitely the secret to her career and the reason why she has lasted almost 20
years now and most other models haven’t had careers lasting half that amount of time. The
reason she’s so successful is people can put onto her any image they want and they can do
that because she’s completely silent. So she can represent older sister, the cool rock and roll
girlfriend, anything that they like.
Callum: Hadley Freeman thinks because she is silent it is very easy for people to
imagine she is whatever they like. This gives her a wide appeal because she
hasn’t said anything to contradict their image of her.
Kate Moss did make a very brief appearance at the Topshop launch. She posed
in the window with some of her designs as the crowds outside waited patiently
for their turn to shop. So a few of the lucky customers were able to see their
idol as well as buy the clothes that they hoped would make them more like her.
That’s all from this edition of People and Places.
