Kate Moss: Golden Girl
Remember THIS statue of Kate Moss? Well, I guess it was time for an upgrade:
She’s been immortalized in bronze, painted in oils and photographed all over the world. Now Kate Moss - fashion icon, mother and long time paparazzi favourite - has been paid the kind of compliment normally reserved for Egyptian queens and mythological goddesses. She has been sculpted in gold. A new statue of the controversial model is to unveiled at the British museum for an exhibition in October. The 34-year-old will join some of the nation’s other great treasures, including a centuries old statue of a naked Aphrodite, on loan from the Queen. This is the first teasing glimpse of the £1.5million likeness of Kate, one of a series by Marc Quinn, the artist responsible for the ‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ sculpture that adorned the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square for 20 months. The museum released only a detail of the Kate Moss work in the hope that the full image could remain private until its unveiling. The statue, entitled ‘Siren’, depicts her in a yoga contortion. If it follows the theme of his previous Kate Moss works, it will place her feet somewhere near her ears and leave various other bits of her leotard-clad body inelegantly exposed to public gaze. The statue is said to be the largest of its kind since ancient Egyptian times. It is fashioned from solid gold. But because the statue is hollow, it weighs only 50 kilograms (110 lb) - possibly a little more than the waif-like subject on which it is modeled.
Um … why Kate Moss? Why not, say, Bea Arthur? Seriously. Anyone?
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August 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
this is weird…i don’t know why people feel the need to immortalize her in any way…she’s no good
August 28th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I’m for Bea Arthur, this is a waste of metal.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
This just proves that the human race has failed.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Is there a mirror of gold and some coke in gold too to complete the whole Kate Moss experience?! She’s common-looking and rough. Yuck.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Why not goldify a dude? I would love to see Olivier Martinez’s junk in golden rod form. Mmmmmmm
August 29th, 2008 at 1:59 am
I had no idea who Bea Arthur was until I googled her.
I agree that there are better people to goldify, though.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:02 am
i dont know you guys, but i LOVE Kate Moss.
She is an icon.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:30 am
who doesn’t know who bea arthur is??
August 29th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Not that im THAT big a fan of Kate Moss or anything….
…but a British Sculptors muse is hardly going to be an American Comedienne? She may have had an impact within your borders but not in many a place else…
Kate Moss has had an impact (whether good OR bad) everywhere else…including Britain…AND the Americas.
Her antics only show that she is a real person. She is the walking fact that beauty doesnt necessarily mean perfection.
THAT is why she was chosen.
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August 31st, 2008 at 7:35 am
well i think marc quinn chose to use kate moss because she is very much an icon of our current generation, and it’s not necessarily an act of commemoration rather than a commentary on our celebrity-worshipping ways? she is both beautiful and yet constantly embroiled in scandal… there’s a paradox there that comes through with the awkward yoga pose…
August 31st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Kate moss is boring, & really what scandal?
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