It's really annoying, but really the way the market works. People have a right to buy it and sell it. I just hope that TopShop have foreseen this and have plenty of reserve stock - God knows they'll be able to move it.

Barely a day after its release, has the Kate Moss for TopShop collection already sold-out? It seems it may be that way online.

Fashionista has reported that excited shoppers who placed their order online and were told they'd successfully picked up a few pieces might be out of luck, with some receiving the following e-mail.

From: "TOPSHOP.COM"
Subject: Your online order with TOPSHOP.COM

We are writing to inform you that due to an issue beyond our control, the items you ordered were unable to be shipped from our warehouse. But please don't worry, you will not be charged for these items.

Don't forget, there's over 200 new additions to the TOPSHOP.COM site each week, and although your requested items are not available, with so many gorgeous new looks you're bound to find something> that will take your fancy.

Kind regards,

TOPSHOP.COM Customer Services

We're not quite sure that a lot of fans of Kate Moss really care about the 200 new additions, unless their from the Kate Moss for TopShop range of course.

Is mannequin Moss exhausted after 12 seconds work?

1st May 2007
Normally she wears clothes effortlessly for a living. But designing them is a different matter for Kate Moss.
So it was that she fell asleep in the back of her car after the launch of her much anticipated first collection for Topshop.

Hard day at the office: Kate seen just after midnight after a party at China Tang restaurant following the launch of her range. Is she exhausted after an arduous 12 seconds of posing for the cameras?

Moss was heading home at midnight barefoot after a celebratory dinner with Topshop boss Philip Green and friends at China Tang at the Dorchester.


Four hours earlier, the supermodel had stood cowering behind a pillar at the Oxford Circus branch as thousands of fans who had been waiting for hours outside began to stream through the doors.
She had not wanted to watch them running down the escalators but Sir Philip persuaded her. It was her night, after all. Together with Green's wife Tina, daughter Chloe, and her own mother, Linda, Moss saw the frenzy generated by her designs. To say she looked nervous would be an understatement.
"Are you pleased?" Moss asked Sir Philip, as hordes of girls in footless tights stampeded past. His reply was unintelligible as he enveloped her in a giant bear hug.
"Thank God," said Moss.
I asked her mother if Kate was nervous.
"Oh, very," she said. "It's the first time Kate has done anything like this and she wants it to be right."

Kate posing in the Topshop window to excited crowds in Oxford Street


Now you see her...Miss Moss, left, and supporting cast

After a brief appearance modelling in the front window, Moss retreated backstage to a VIP area and held court on a red velvet banquette.
Dressed in a red, floor-length chiffon dress with a ruffled hem - one of her own designs, naturally - she was toasted by friends including Sadie Frost, Davinia Murphy, Rose Ferguson and Meg Mathews.

Moss's mates: Meg Matthews, Sadie Frost and Davinia Murphy were on hand to support the model

"To Kate," they shouted, clinking champagne glasses the size of vases.
"And to Katie," they added, referring to stylist Katie England, who had considerable input into the collection.

The mannequin in the window is Kate

Just half an hour before, Moss's select coterie of friends had been able to beat the crowd outside by placing their own orders on a form.
The favourite was 'number 16', a short, floral chiffon tea dress at £45. Also popular was a long, black satin maxi skirt and a red and silver halter-neck mini dress.

Kate leaving her London home for the launch

It was heartening to note that, when it comes to making snap retail decisions, fashion folk are just as useless as the rest of us: everyone wanted to know what everyone else was ordering.
Frost, elegant in a short, black shift dress, was careful not to plump for the same sandals as her younger sister, Jade Davidson, who is nanny to Moss's daughter, Lila Grace.

A sneak peek of the model's Topshop range

Long after Moss had been whisked off to dinner by a back entrance, the crowds continued streaming down the escalators.
In contrast to the scenes that greeted the opening of the new Primark store in Oxford Street three weeks ago, where customers were trampled in the rush, Topshop's crowd control was well-planned and effective.
Wrist bands had been issued on a first come, first served basis, with customers being let in in groups of 150.
Each was allowed to shop for 20 minutes, buying a maximum of five garments each, while DJ Lauren Laverne barked encouragement through a microphone. "Come on, ladies, you've only got 10 minutes left. Who's going to be first to the tills?"
The last group gained access at midnight, with the store finally closing at 00.30.
"I'll be back at midnight, seeing how it's going," Green told me, holding his daughter Chloe by the hand.
At which point, doubtless, the one-shouldered, white prom dress Chloe was wearing would have sold out long ago.

Oxford Street goes Kate mad

Green ahead of Kate Moss' launch

Moss wearing her collection which is set to break records

Topshop has ordered huge quantities of the clothes in anticipation of high customer demand.
Laura Weir, senior reporter for fashion industry bible Drapers, said: "Regardless of its critics, the tie-up will be hugely lucrative, a massive footfall driver and will cause a shopper frenzy across UK high streets.
"The first drop of commercially priced product will sell out in record time because, like her or not, a bulk of young female shoppers in the UK want to buy into the Kate Moss look and what she represents."
A high summer collection of Kate Moss designs will follow at Topshop stores in June.

source:dailymail

Photos of Kate pre and post launch of the collection:

I wish I knew how to get that sexy bed hair she always has!

it makes our stella mccartney "fenzy" look tame

Queues formed outside a store in Dublin @ 5am yesterday to get a wrist band which would allow you inside after the 8am opening. Then groups of 30 were allowed in for 20 minutes, allowed to try on up to 8 items and buy up to 5 (all of which had to be of different styles and colurs). By lunchtime nearly everything had gone.

Kate MOss for Top Shop is coming to the U.S. at Barney's this month!

The Kate Moss for TopShop line has launched in New York, with much less hoo-ha than the British launch.



As a result there's a hell of a lot less coverage going around, but you can pop over to Fashionista if you're interested in a few snaps of Barney's merchandising efforts and some of the ladies who turned up to get some of the key pieces.

Why is there a hand written sign in the Barneys window?!