Italian house Bottega Veneta has launched a new fanzine dedicated to Kate Moss.
Created as a way to offer fans an invitation into the world of both Bottega and Moss, the zine is presented as something of a personal diary, and features collages and images of the iconic British supermodel.
“Kate Moss was my first Google search,” Bottega Veneta Creative Director Matthieu Blazy said. “Whenever I hear a modem, I think of Kate, because I mainly looked for her pictures as a teenager. It’s a sound I will forever relate to her.”
Previously, Bottega Veneta has released two zines chronicling designs by Gaetano Pesce, alongside photographs of the brands SS23 collection.
The new and latest publication in the series, simply titled ‘Summer 23 Fanzine’, features scans from Blazy’s personal ring binder, (which he curated as a teen), full of drawings and cut-and-pasted images of Moss, including Vogue covers, Chanel runway images, Calvin Klein campaigns, paparazzi shots and much more.
“She became a personal icon,” Blazy says of Moss. “It was, for me, a very serious teenage activity that became an everyday term at home. If I was doing my “Kate Moss”, it meant I was in the middle of collecting pictures. This hobby became a sort of education. This fanzine is a tribute to Kate and the pages of a binder that defined my coming of age. She was my first.”
