Tue, 05/08/2007 - 1:39pm

Dear DC Diary*,

Tired of trying to hack Kate's Fashion Outlook? She's basically decided to CC us on all of her wardrobe e-faves (e for everyday) via Topshop.

On May 9th, throw a precious stone from Cusp and make the air-rainbow complete by aiming its landing at the Barney's New York Co-Op store. You must walk this stone's throw distance, with your head down on a Moss mission, assuming the no-time-for-pedetiquette mode. Even quicker--make the stone a stick and be a fashion dog and after it you should chase. Do so, and rewards will be most fetching.

When you lift your head and are faced with Barney, then and only at that then moment, you will see the number zero illustrated in sport with a Sharpie on a poster-sized pad of paper. Elevated on an easel in the storefront (where the Blue Man-nequin Group always headlines), this countdown is symbolic for the amount of days left excusable to pant and drool in public while waiting for and imagining what the Kate Moss Topshop collection has in store for us. Stick or stone, this line is more promising than (and won't cost us) a pot of gold.

Didn't your mother ever tell you not to ignore italicized words? Lean with this: the high street British collection will only be available at Barney's New York Co-op stores, so be there, or be at H&M picking through the Hefty remains (double entendre intended, ergo the case difference) of Madonna's M line. Trust me, everyone will see right through that translucent white M by Madonna suit jacket if you buy it and try to act like it was a personal choice of purchase. Don't take the little out of little white lies by taking the M out of H&M.

While Anna Wintour let the Kate out of the bag in the May issue of Vogue and probably made you feel like a peak sneak (no, that was not an accidental transposition), and your coffee table tabloids turned coasters leak images of Kate Moss outfitted in her personally styled styles, your seemingly heightened vantage of anticipatory insight doesn't hold a sandal to the eighty pieces in the first collection alone. Plus and more, Miss Moss and Topshop Boss will be collaborating for the next two years, minimum. Even if you were a puzzle kid, heed my advice and play Kate Moss Topshop pieces more like Scrabble, making the best of what you can score. I know eighty pieces is a bit overwhelming, but I bet you could never put a fifty piece puzzle together on a rainy day anyway, because it's boring.

So, covet or leave it.

*This article was written as a diary entry to give myself the impression that I am not publicly revealing information that, if shared, could make me more fashionably lucrative than you.

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