Kate Moss didn’t want to leave her house when lockdown lifted
The 46-year-old model spent several months staying at her home in the Cotswolds with daughter Lila, 18, boyfriend Nikolai von Bismarck, half-sister Lottie, and best friend James Brown, and though she was happy to return to London when restrictions were eased, she admitted it took some coaxing for her to start socialising again
12 November 2020
She said: “I didn't want to see anybody at first - I was like, 'What do you mean I've got to go to a dinner?' “
Meanwhile, though Kate loves jewellery, she’d rather wear her own to public events than borrow designer pieces because it’s so “embarrassing” having to hand them back at the end of the night.
She said: “I won't do it if I have to have a security guard following me. No way.
“My friend did it once, and as soon as the party was over, they were standing at the door waiting to get the jewellery off her. It's so embarrassing. You get into the car and you've got nothing on. That's awful!"
But Kate should be glad of the security presence as she’s previously had her only “heirloom”, her grandmother’s wedding ring, stolen, as well as a Cartier art deco bracelet which she’d bought from SJ Phillips in London, though the latter piece eventually found its way back to her.
She told Telegraph Luxury magazine: “I always take jewellery on holiday - I love wearing it on the beach and in the sea; I think it's so decadent.
“I’d taken this bracelet on a boat in Thailand and somebody nicked it. They sold it to someone in India, who came to London and sold it back to SJ Phillips.
“It was stamped, so they could identify it as mine; they called me and said, ‘We've got your bracelet,’ and gave it back to me."
And the supermodel still thinks of some pieces she bought in India when she was 22 that went missing before she got home.
She said: “I went to Jaipur and Rajasthan; all the girls were covered in incredible jewellery. I started buying loads of it.
"I bought a beautiful Gucci jewellery roll to store it all in, and when I got home I said to my friend, 'Wait until you see the jewellery I got in India.' But it was all gone - stolen.
“That was pretty depressing - there were things in there that I still think about."
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