For a moment, they were the coolest couple on planet Earth. Their continuous fights, the cocaine episode and other rumors (and truths) about their romance are well worth a review#TBT
Kate Moss always wanted to be like Anita Pallenberg, and if there is something that both women share –besides an exquisite taste when it comes to dressing– it is their perpetual adoration for musicians, something that they have confirmed through their various courtships and marriages with rock stars.
And in the case of Kate, if we talk about relevant romances in this field, there is only one that is worth talking about –because the Jamie Hince thing is another matter–: her strange (and scandalous) relationship with Pete Doherty . The two met in 2005, just when the model had broken up with Jefferson Hack (father of her daughter, Lila Grace) and all the tabloids were talking about her return to the nightlife.
From the moment they fell in love (yes, there was a crush) they fed fans, paparazzi and mythomaniacs several hundred snapshots that confirm that rock exists and that sometimes it can be felt. Kate and Pete at Glastonbury; Kate and Pete leaving Sadie Frost's house after an endless party; Kate and Pete recovering from their various excesses at their country home; Kate and Pete filming their life with a Super 8 camera. It was too cool to be true, but they made it possible and took the myth of the rock star and his girl's wandering life to its last consequences.
And within these consequences we find those episodes that transcended internationally and that, precisely, turned Kate and Pete's romance into what it is now: an eternal myth of rock history. That if Doherty wrote "I love Kate forever" in the red Jaguar that he got into after testifying in one of the multiple trials he had for drug possession; that if Moss left him after publishing a video in The Sun in which Pete appeared using heroin; that if Doherty gave Kate a dead rat as a sign of his eternal love... There are stories about them to write a book (and we fell short), because there was a time when the British tabloid media woke up every morning with a new news about the most scandalous and most wanted couple. And the truth is that being cannon fodder every day should not be easy.
So it was only a matter of time before such overexposure took its toll on both of them, and so it did with the Cocaine Kate scandal. We already know the story: Kate Moss recorded on video while she was consuming huge amounts of cocaine in the studio where her boyfriend was recording an album with the Babyshambles. The result? A sharp drop in the model's reputation, which saw how her contracts with hundreds of luxury brands – including Burberry – disappeared, and criticism in the press and various forums about her 'dissolute' lifestyle did not stop happen. Now, as in all cases of celebrities who go down the well, her resurrection was not successful, but the following.
However, the Cocaine Kate scandal ended up destroying the relationship between the rocker and the supermodel, since she was forced to enter a rehabilitation clinic to restore her image and he was not willing to give up drugs. Two vital moments that, of course, could not coexist in the same room.
So although theirs was brief (but intense), the truth is that they both composed an album of snapshots that will always inspire us –well, here things are based on taste, of course–.
