Dear Kate Moss
December 23, 2008 by admin
Filed under Dear Celebrity Love from Leigh
I am a huge fan and admire all of the incredible work that you have done over the years. But I write basically asking for your help.
Two years ago I won a competition, which enabled me to have a full day photo shoot with a top international photographer named Vidal Marquis. I have always dreamed of becoming a male model but have had no success as most agencies have rejected me due to my height and my lazy eye. However, Vidal took some great photographs that day and said I was entitled to keep only one of them but if I wanted the others I would have to pay a grand total of nine hundred and eighty six pounds. This covered reproduction fees and paid for his internationally renowned name to be printed beneath the print. After years of trying to break into the business I saw these pictures as an opportunity to become recognised in the modelling world. After all, who would be able to turn me down following my association with Vidal Marquis? I therefore gave Vidal all of my bank and credit card details enabling him to do a credit check. I left his studio in Bradford that day elated that soon I would have the likes of Kevin Kline and Eves Sir Laraunt at my feet. I was told that I would receive the photographs along with an exclusive folder in the following six to twelve weeks. When I arrived home that night I showed my mother the photograph and a tear welled in her eye as she said that for the first time in her life she thought I would be able to make something of myself. She said the picture was perfect.
Twelve weeks later I had received no prints. Yet, my bank balance was non-existent and the whole two-thousand pounds credit on my visa had been spent. The credit card company claimed that the card cover plan, which I paid five pounds per month for, was not valid, as I shouldn’t have given him my pin number. But I trusted him Kate. Why shouldn’t I, he had worked with some of the worlds greats such as yourself, Madonna and Linda La Plant. Of course I didn’t want to act unprofessional so I gave him everything he requested. At the moment I am working every hour god sends at the petrol station to pay off my debts and help my mum pay the mortgage, as she was made redundant from her cleaning Job at Natwest last year. Life is terrible at the moment but I feel it could be easily resolved if only I could get my hands on those photographs. Agencies are still turning me down as they say the one picture I have doesn’t count as a portfolio. I have been signed by Hull Glamour, who also have Claire Spinks (Miss Beverley Advertiser 1999) on their books, but they have failed to get me any work as yet. I also model once a month at Curls by Design Unisex Salon where I get a free trim and colour if I choose.
Vidal mentioned how much he enjoyed working with you and said that you meet up regularly to discuss changes in fashion and make up. I have no way of getting in touch with him because he moved out of the Bradford studio and his mobile number is defunct, so I was wondering if possible, the next time you see him can you please ask him to send me the photographs as I feel like my life is on hold. Just to refresh his memory I wore the ripped jeans and held onto some tyres in the free shot and in the others did a succession of poses from wearing a suit and looking upset, acting coy behind the tree, and being sexually ambiguous on a fur rug. Please stress the importance of these photographs Kate, if I don’t get out of the petrol Station soon I don’t know what I’ll do. I began working there when I was twenty, I thought it would be temporary, but sixteen years later I still see the same faces day in, day out. If Vidal refuses to part with the pictures, I know this is a bit out of order Kate but could you possibly borrow them from his file and photocopy them for me. I would do anything for those pictures and I mean anything. Thanks so much for your help Kate. You are so lucky. Hopefully one day I’ll see you on the catwalk.
Love from Leigh
Now that Angus Deyton has stolen her fashion crown, and her clothes line at Topshop is as popular as prescription shoes, Kate may find time to send me a reply. I’ll keep you posted.
