Kate Moss: Icky or icon?

Kate Moss -- she of the skyscraper legs and snaggleteeth -- has always been a lightning rod for polemics. Fashion bloggers analyze her every outfit; tabloids exploit her every drunken binge. The thing about this model that I adore is her absolute insouciance when it comes to style.

We all know that models can throw on anything, add a scarf, and look utterly elegant. It's a combination of their supreme genes and that feline grace that comes with hours of catwalk pacing. It's also as unfair as a New  Year's Eve on a Monday. But only Kate can hit it out of the park wearing wellies with shorts or knee-high suede moccasins with a skimpy mini.

Lately, Moss has been making the rounds wearing a tuxedo jacket. It looks so fantastic, paired with jeans or leather pants. It got me thinking that I want a piece of that action. A tuxedo jacket can enliven a T-shirt and skinny jeans or add some gravity to a bright, flouncy frock. I love a tuxedo jacket with cargo pants because it is the ultimate contrast: formal with fatigues. 

Here's an awesome and affordable tux jacket (with my embellishment on the lapel, right) from Alexander McQueen's McQ line that sells for $463 on netaporter.com. The vented back and pinstriped lining give it that formal edge.

For a more kick-around jacket that won't dent your bank account, check out Urban Outfitter's version, left: a bomber style with satin trim. Buy it here for $68.

Photo credits: Kate Moss, Bauer Images; tuxes, netaporter.com and urbanoutfitters.com

Comments

[kat]

Kate Moss could have been the biggest thing since Marilyn Monroe (fashion and image wise that is . . the girl has no personality) but instead she chose to be a stringly little creep who hangs around with a guy who looks lke a fay version of a droog. Then there's the whole strung out mother image and what you end up with is a cross between Courtney Love and Sid Vicious. Whatever she wears she looks like she spent the night before in it but she does clean up well . . .that's for sure.