Is Agyness Deyn taking Kate Moss’s crown?

Posted by mija on Jun 26, 2008 in News | 0 comments

As the night wears on into the early hours of the morning, a strikingly attractive, yet strangely androgynous blonde is deep in conversation amid the gaudy surroundings of London nightclub Punk.
Beneath a luminous portrait of Sid Vicious, oblivious to the blatant stares of the fashionable crowd who surround her, she leans into her male companion and whispers into his ear.
‘What is the best savings account to go for at the moment?’ she intones in a distinctive Lancastrian drawl.

‘You get so much conflicting advice, sometimes I feel like shoving it all under the mattress and hoping for the best.’
As conversational gambits go, it is not, to say the least, standard supermodel conversation. But then 25-year-old Agyness Deyn is anything but your typical supermodel.
This down-to-earth lass from Stubbins, Lancashire, famously started out working in her village chippy, serving up – and often eating – portions of deep-fried haddock in a grease-stained tabard.
Today she is, without exaggeration, the most sought-after model in the world – the face of the Noughties – and celebrities such as Pixie Geldof, Sarah Harding and Kimberly Stewart are queuing up to have their hair cropped into a peroxide blonde ‘Agy’.

To cap it all, she’s on the brink of pop stardom, singing on a record which is tipped for chart success following its release last Monday.
Small wonder that Kate Moss – a frustrated rocker herself – is green with envy at this younger, fresher version stealing her thunder.
‘Kate can’t stand her. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that Agy is her nemesis,’ a friend of Kate’s told me.
‘It’s not about Agy’s personality, but what she represents. She’s younger, fresher, everyone loves her and she’s got everything ahead of her.
‘Now she’s singing with a band, something Kate has wanted to do for years. Kate’s 34 now and she realises her days as a model are numbered. Everyone’s calling Agy the new Kate Moss – and that hurts.’
Comparisons between the two British supermodels are inevitable. Each captured a fashion moment, albeit in separate decades, and developed her own distinctive take on rock’n’ roll chic. But that’s where the similarity ends.
For where Kate has developed an image of sexy aloofness, often bordering on rudeness, Agy represents something entirely different.
‘She has life, personality and she’s very enthusiastic about everything she does,’ says Vogue photographer Robert Fairer. ‘She jumps up and down, she plays the part and she is always happy.’
A happy supermodel? Surely not! And yet it truly seems to be the case that fashion, a world renowned for its cold reserve, has been won over by the sheer, smiling enthusiasm of Agyness.
The camera loves her, but so do the people taking the pictures, the stylists, the make-up artists, the designers and practically everyone she meets.
Whisper it quietly but there may be hope for the world of high fashion yet.
‘For all Agy’s new-found fame, she hasn’t been spoiled in the slightest,’ says a friend who has known her since she was at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School.
‘The Agy of today is exactly the same wide-eyed northern lass who moved to London less than five years ago.
‘ Perhaps it has something to do with the fact she didn’t make it as a model until she was in her 20s; Kate Moss was an international icon at 15.’
source: dailymail.co.uk