They want that Kate, Kate, Kate

You might know her, you might have heard of her you might have had a fantasy about her in your teenage years or you just saw her pictures and thought: "Who is this girl? I want to marry her." Truth is everyone wanted her, from young boys to grown men or who knows, maybe women. Every photographer wanted and still wants to take her pictures, every designer wanted and wants her to be the face of their new product or to have her on their runway. You're probably wondering who am I talking about and here is your answer:

-The one and only: Kate Moss.

Now, some of you might not have heard of her which it's not a good thing but that's okay because I'm here now and I will tell you everything there is to know about this supermodel. Okay, I'm not going to bore you with things like how old she is, where she was born or what the color of her eyes is, you can find all that on her Wikipedia page or on many other websites. I'll try to make you see her through my eyes, I don't know if I'll succeed since for me she's an icon and I just love what she represents and stands for but still maybe some of you will share my views.

This "thing" I have for her began, I think, a few years ago when I found some of her pictures, of course at that time I didn't know who she was but I found her face fascinating so of course as any teenager I published those pictures on my Facebook profile not having a clue of who she was. Being as crazy as I am for models I found out everything there was to know about her, asap and I was amazed and intrigued by Kate Moss.

I guess every model has her type of beauty and something of her own but with Kate it was not just that. Truth be told when she started, her colleagues looked like they could be her mother, models like Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and other great supermodels of the 90', they were all tall and voluptuous and Kate was anything but that. She is a very petite, skinny girl with a baby face but even so, she succeeded in making everyone from designers to photographers and managers fall in love with her looks.

She embodied the "sex, drugs and rock & roll" life-style and it couldn't have suited her better. I guess that's one of the reasons I like her, during a time when everyone in the fashion world was trying to hide what was going on behind closed doors she was just putting all out there, for the world to see. Not everyone is brave enough to do that and still model and be on the cover of so many Vogue issues. Of course there were repercussions like the scandal in 2005 when she was photographed doing cocaine and some of the big brands she was representing, like Chanel and H&M, dropped her but she got back on track after that.

Everyone wonders how she got so lucky and was so successful but let's not forget that she is a sexy woman, Kate Moss is a sexy woman and that is the basis for so much. Of course these days the idea of sexy is just a naked body but I believe that sexiness has nothing to do with that, yes that can be a factor but not the final verdict. Kate manages to look at you in a certain way or just her attitude in a picture makes you think of her as a sexy woman and you just watch her and feel that.

Now, what I told you is just a glimpse of what Kate really is but I hope I managed to make you guys curious. Kate Moss was, is and will always be a style icon and a great supermodel. The way she presents herself to the world it's just something else.

McQueen's aggressive chapter in fashion

The reign of Alexander McQueen was dark, beautiful and aggressive but unfortunately too short.

A while ago I came across some of Alexander McQueen's videos from his fashion shows and let's just say that since then my YouTube feed is full of them. Of course I knew who he was, or I thought I did but it wasn't more than hearing his name on the lips of some model or reading a magazine that had some kind of information about him. Since then I became a bit obsessed, so obsessed that I spent a whole rainy Saturday, in bed, looking at videos, reading about him and watching some of his interviews.

Everything seemed so fascinating, so intense. I was immediately attracted by his designs but what got me hooked was his mind. All I could think was, how could someone have this kind of imagination to put together those fashion shows, to make those clothes, to send so many messages and just show what we all think or thought at some point but were too afraid to say it because someone may judge us. Guess he was not afraid to speak his mind through his creations. In an era where every designer was trying to make women look decent, elegant and classy he empowered them in such a way that seemed very odd at the beginning and hard for some critics or individuals in the fashion world to understand.

Some of his early shows were highly criticized by the media as the models were either covered in what looked like blood or they were brutally chained. At the first sight anyone would think that McQueen was a misogynist, but he always said that he wants people to be afraid of the women he dressed and that's something that you wouldn't hear from any designer as the majority of them want individuals to love the women they dressed and think highly of them but never, in a million years, fear them.

I guess he was trying to send a powerful message, one that couldn't be understood by anyone in that time because few could say that they understood what his designs were all about and of course, us, humans tend to hate or not like something just for the mere fact that we can't comprehend it which is weird because deep down we know that's not what we feel but isn't it easier to say: "Ugh that's weird or ugly" than to actually try and see what the meaning really is. What's funny is that we tend fall in love with something that we hate at the beginning, which is probably one of the many jokes that the Universe throws at us. My thoughts are that he was trying to show the world that women aren't supposed to be this way or that way, they can be whatever they want as long as they own up to it.

For many centuries men perceived women as weak, as someone who would nod and say yes to whatever their life partner would tell them because why should women get to have an opinion. From my point, what McQueen tried, was to make men see women and even women, see themselves as strong individuals, as someone who was not ashamed to have men fear them when they would walk into a room. The way McQueen chose to do that was so new and exquisite that of course, it would cause people to say and think: " Wait, isn't that a bit too much?" To be honest with you guys, it was indeed too much but when you think about it, how can we evolve as individuals if we keep the same tone as 5 years ago and live in a bubble where nothing new happens. Well, firstly that would be very boring and secondly, we would repeat everything over and over again and what would be the point of that.

So, for everyone who has even a tiny little interest in fashion or, you know what, even those who perceive fashion as art, I would suggest you take five minutes of your busy schedules or just pause that Netflix series that you're watching and go look at some of his fashion shows because let me tell you, I was watching online and I got the goosebumps, I don't even want to know what those people who were in that room felt like, being there in person and watching how a new scandalous chapter was written in the history of fashion.