We love celebrity friendships!!!
Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss have shared a beautiful friendship for the past 25 years, and now, on the occasion of Mossy’s 40th birthday, Naomi has written a sweet homage to her close friend of the past two and a half decades.
She shares a lot, while also keeping some things to herself, and it’s really quite endearing to read about these two supermodels’ enduring companionship from Naomi herself!
These two were meant to be!
Read on for some fun deets!
Naomi recalls her first ever meeting with her fellow British model, saying:
“I first met Kate Moss in Los Angeles in 1992. She was 15, I was 18. It was a brief meeting but I remember her being strikingly quiet, she hardly spoke. She can be very shy at times ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ if she doesn├óΓé¼Γäót know you she doesn├óΓé¼Γäót speak. The other striking thing, obviously, was her beautiful face. I knew she was special from that first minute I saw her.”
Naomi also maintains that despite her larger-than-life status, Kate is totally down-to-earth:
“What├óΓé¼Γäós Kate like? Well, she├óΓé¼Γäós honest, loyal and straightforward. There├óΓé¼Γäós no bullshit. She├óΓé¼Γäós not pretentious in any way. What you see is what you get. I love that about her. After all, we├óΓé¼Γäóre both from south London ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ I├óΓé¼Γäóm from Streatham, she├óΓé¼Γäós from Croydon ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ and from working-class families. She├óΓé¼Γäós never tried to be anything else and nor have I. We know our roots.”
She also shares how Christy Turlington became the third member of their party (the three are pictured above at a Versace fashion show in South Africa in 1998!), saying:
“I was lucky enough to have met Christy Turlington already, and then I took Kate under my wing and we became a three. Christy and I showed Kate the ropes. If we knew a designer was a certain way we├óΓé¼Γäód explain it to her, we├óΓé¼Γäód tell her how people worked and what to look out for. We├óΓé¼Γäód share everything. We worked so hard in those days, and then in the evening we would go out, for dinner, to concerts. Kate lived between Christy├óΓé¼Γäós flat and my flat in New York and then when we travelled to do the shows in Italy and Paris, we├óΓé¼Γäód try to stay in the same hotels and on the same floor. We might have a break somewhere like Marrakech after the collections and then we├óΓé¼Γäód be back to face 25 shows.”
Naomi quickly learned that Kate’s fashion sense couldn’t work on everyone. She explained:
“We were like sisters. Kate was cool, stylish. She├óΓé¼Γäód sometimes tell us how to dress ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ ├óΓé¼┼ôYou need to be a bit more funky and downbeat,├óΓé¼┬¥ she├óΓé¼Γäód say. On her advice I once wore Adidas sneakers with a Galliano dress, which in retrospect was an appalling faux pas. I realised that Kate Moss could get away with things that the rest of us couldn├óΓé¼Γäót.”
Then there was the time the two snuck into a Nirvana show! Naomi recalled:
“After one Sunday lunch we wanted to go and see Nirvana, who were playing at Columbus Circle, where the old Coliseum was, but we didn├óΓé¼Γäót have tickets. We decided to blag it. So we get there and say, ├óΓé¼┼ôSo have our tickets been left here?├óΓé¼┬¥ And the woman was like, ├óΓé¼┼ôNo, I├óΓé¼Γäóm sorry, there├óΓé¼Γäós none.├óΓé¼┬¥
We did the whole, ├óΓé¼┼ôthat├óΓé¼Γäós so weird because they are supposed to be here├óΓé¼┬¥. And all the while the lady is looking at Kate Moss. Her picture was all over New York for Calvin Klein at the time, and they must├óΓé¼Γäóve thought, well it must be true. So in the end we got to see Nirvana and we got backstage. Where there├óΓé¼Γäós a will there├óΓé¼Γäós a way, we├óΓé¼Γäód say.”
Naomi also has too many good memories to count with Kate! She said:
“There are so, so many good times I remember, so many. There was the time in February 1998 when we flew to meet Nelson Mandela in Cape Town.
Kate helped me pull together a load of people for a benefit for The Nelson Mandela Children├óΓé¼Γäós Fund, and we did it in a short amount of time. We were adventurous. Granddad [Mandela] had a tea party for us in the Presidential House in Cape Town and he introduced himself to everyone ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ hairdressers, make-up artists, everyone. Amber [Valletta] was so overwhelmed she started crying. That was such a memorable trip to share with friends.”
And even after all these years, the two are as close as ever!
“Perhaps what I love best about Kate is that she tries to keep the child within her, I would never want her to lose it. Yes, she├óΓé¼Γäós 40, I├óΓé¼Γäóm 43, but it├óΓé¼Γäós always great to have your child in you. It├óΓé¼Γäós that vulnerability that makes you special, that makes you do the creative things, she so has that and when we├óΓé¼Γäóre together it comes out. We├óΓé¼Γäóre like we├óΓé¼Γäóre at secondary school. That├óΓé¼Γäós what happens with girlfriends who├óΓé¼Γäóve grown up together. That├óΓé¼Γäós the charm of the friendship.”
Read the full piece HERE!
And check out more pics of the duo in the gallery (below)!
[Image via WENN.]
