WITH her plunging sequin dress clinging to her every curve and her hair a mass of curls, Ellie Bamber took us all back 20 years. The British actress has transformed herself into Kate Moss for an upcoming biopic about the supermodel, recreating her glamorous 30th birthday look. Pictures yesterday showed the 27-year-old in the early Noughties get-up as she casually smoked a cigarette while on set in London.
Moss & Freud starts in 2002, when the catwalk queen sat nude for Lucian Freud, and details her infamous relationship with the artist, played by veteran actor Derek Jacobi. Yet it’s little wonder that Kate’s famously debauched birthday party is set to be immortalised in the film, written and directed by Oscar-winning New Zealander James Lucas. Society magazine Harper’s Bazaar rated the bash number three in a top ten of all-time scandalous moments that also included all of Babylon, Sodom & Gomorrah and the last days of Rome.
Drenched in drink and cocaine, and filled with Britain’s biggest rock and rollers, the night became so wild that some guests reportedly had an orgy. Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood fell off the wagon in spectacular fashion by downing a bottle of champagne, later describing Kate — once nicknamed The Tank for her hard boozing — as “a lovely nutcase”. The event, on January 16, 2004, was organised by PR guru Fran Cutler — dubbed the “Party Rottweiler”.
Kate styled herself on the spoilt Gloria Gilbert from F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Beauti.
