1st May:

Yesterday, the High Street fashion chain Top Shop launched its new clothing collection designed by that seminal luminary of the fashion design world, Miss Kate Moss. Ahem.

The latest collection has apparently been designed by Kate (ahem) exclusively for Top Shop and has been inspired by Kate's own wardrobe. Which is presumably full of expensive stuff that she bought elsewhere. Previously. When it was fashionable.

It really says something about the cult of celebrity here in the UK when lines of surly-looking 13 year-old girls will queue up for hours to buy stuff that is practically identical to what they are currently already wearing (cause they love yooo Kate!) on the premise that it has been designed by someone who, at the last count, had bugger all to say about anything. True to form, Kate turned up at Top Shop's flagship London store yesterday, looked enigmatic, pouted a bit, said nothing and was then rushed back into a waiting car by a team of security heavies.

Curious, also, is the implicit suggestion that years of traveling around the world as a collagen-enhanced coathanger provides you with the insight and expertise required to then design your own clothing collection.

Maybe i'm being a bit hard on the pontoon-eyed (one is sticking, the other twisting) Croydon chav done good.

But it is a bit like Ron Jeremy announcing a second career in Gynaecology.