Kate Moss is getting a lot of femdom photo hits for her recent shoot with i-D magazine, and honestly, the shoot is okay, but nothing inspiring. (See nearby sample, copyright i-D, mercifully downsized).
If anything, the i-D photos (hmmm, like for a driver’s license? had to say it) made Moss look exceedingly uncomfortable and out of place.
And that isn’t the real Kate Moss, at least from many previous femdom works in which she appears quite at ease, indeed, natural.
(Those extreme fetish heels will do that to you, as any real dominatrix, or indeed most women for that matter, can tell you. You boys want to know why your mistress gets a bit cranky sometime? Skeewjy yourself into a fetish outfit and try to keep your hair in place for 5-6 hours — or even just, walk across the room.)
A BETTER CONCEPT, with a better result, flowed from her collaboration with Vogue UK this April, to the right and below.
Some critics sniffled that Moss’s takeoff on Sharon Stone — the theme for the shoot was “Basic Instinct” — was inadequate, and even (backseatcuddler.com) “lame.”
We politely disagree.
The images are sleek — “legs, heels, legs, spikes, and legs,” as a style critic has written of Stone herself — in the Stonian tradition, and nicely carried off with the use of lighting, and black and white production, to give the whole shoot a femme noir feel.
The first image to the right, indeed, has a Rita-Hayworth, Blood-and-Sand quality.
(Hmmm, perhaps not coincidentally, Stone also appeared in a Blood and Sand remake, though it was relatively forgettable.)
The second is less severe, more girlydom. Nothing wrong with that, in our book. If you don’t think the young, not fully severe, bubble-gum brat-domme can drive males into crazy submission, you evidently haven’t seen Britney Spears, Rihanna, or Taylor Momsen.
If nothing else, the shoot shows that Moss and the crew she’s done her best work with have a sense for femme fatale fetish style. If you were to ask men about femmes fatale of the last 10-20 years, yah, they’d have Sharon Stone somewhere in the top 10…
But most women would place her much higher, close to the top, an icon. And women, of course, are the arbiters of style, not their male domestics. The enduring power of Basic Instinct and Sharon Stone’s femdom performance is worth comment — and something we’ll come back to.
AND AS MOST of her shoots (save the overrated i-D effort) show — see, e.g., our January 2009 review of “Kate Moss dominatrix” – Pretty in Purple —
if there’s anyone who’s claimed the right to strike a pose for femme fatale fetish, it’s Kate Moss dominatrix.
Elizabeth Perkins was the star, but Sharon Stone characteristically stole the show as bitchy, bossy girlfriend to Kevin Bacon.
It’s more than Catherine Tramell, lesbian serial killer who brings rock stars and Micheal Douglas to their knees for oral service… but what if it weren’t? 
Sharon Stone
