Kate Moss Vogue wedding photos
Kate Moss Vogue wedding photos.KATE MOSS has explained why she chose John Galliano to design her wedding dress.
"When I put the dress on, I'm really happy. I forget about everything. [I wanted] a classic Galliano, those chiffon Thirties kind," the supermodel said. "I've lived in his dresses for years, and they just make me feel so comfortable. But it's so much more couture, couture, couture. Oh my God, the work that's going into the dress!" The style of dress was discussed on the phone, and when the designer left rehab following his arrest in February, he met with Moss, bringing with him - as she describes - "bags full of bits, and pulled tulle and sequins and veils and flowers... And then we just kind of pinned things together, like the old days, you know?"
When Kate's father, Peter, thanked the designer during the bridal speeches for making such a beautiful gown for his daughter, guests gave a standing ovation - and Galliano himself welled up with tears.
"She dared me to be John Galliano again," the designer told US Vogue. "I couldn't pick up a pencil. It's been my creative rehab. She was very professional and very demanding."
Inspired by the Jazz Age photographs of novelist Zelda Fitzgerald, Galliano said one of the key parts of the dress was "a beautiful rosary, which I thought must have been from a fallen angel" - evoking memories of the designer's late business partner, Steven Robinson.
"So Steven is watching," he said, "nestled in the back of the bow."
Just before Moss set off for the church she asked the designer for "a few words, a story to inspire her - she loves a bit of direction!" said Galliano. "I told her, 'You have a secret - you are the last of the English roses - and when he lifts your veil he's going to see your wanton past!'"
Hince proposed to his now-wife several times while they were on holiday in Thailand two years ago, but it was actually watching television series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings that was the final clincher.
"We were just so loved up, and he asked me to marry him every day," Moss recalled of their Thai break. "I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen. You can't believe the dresses. They're like blinging butterflies times ten; they can't move down the aisle! It's so genius. I was just watching Jamie, so cute, and I was like, these girls, they just spend their whole life waiting for that day-let's do it!"
The model says she wasn't immune to the pre-wedding nerves most brides feel during the build up to their big day.
"Let's put it this way," she said. "If I didn't have my friends... I don't know how people do it. I've had big birthday parties, and I've thrown parties for other people, but this is a completely different thing. It's the Met Ball! Because you have to look at every piece of cutlery; the details are intense. And then you wake up thinking about the ballet shoes for the girls; is the satin ribbon right? I've gone mental. Jamie thinks I'm mad, asking, 'Are you gonna be all right? After the wedding, I'm hoping you'll get back to normal!'"
After the wedding, guests headed to to the gardens of Thyme Southrop Manor Estate where a jazz band were playing It Had to Be You. Photographer Marcus Piggot caught Kate's bouquet, before Best Woman Alison Mosshart gave a touching speech - where she promised Moss that her now-husband will "always make you happy. He'll always excite you."
Bryan Ferry serenaded the couple for their first dance - If There Is Something ("It's mine and Jamie's song"). The dining pavilion harked back to the Twenties, filled with Victorian chandeliers, apricot and lilac roses and decadent Chesterfield sofas. A circus tent was built for Kate's younger guests - featuring a mini drum kit, DJs and tepees for them to sleep in.
"I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and Twenties, when everything is soft-focus," said Kate. "The Great Gatsby. The code name was GG for a while. That light and that kind of fun decadence. It's rock 'n' roll Great Gatsby!"
Moss' daughter Lila Grace headed up the group of 16 child bridesmaids, attentive of both her peers and her famous mother.
"Mummy, are you stressed?" she was overheard asking.
