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Kate Moss is a magpie of the beadiest-eyed variety. As soon as I step into her Soho modeling agency, where our interview takes place, she clocks my earrings and correctly identifies their designer: “I was there yesterday, I love her stuff.” The 46-year-old supermodel is sun-kissed in flared jeans and a silky black shirt, having spent lockdown at her Cotswold home with her 18-year-old daughter, Lila Grace; her boyfriend of five years, photographer Nikolai von Bismarck; her half-sister, Lottie; and her best friend, hairdresser James Brown. She is relieved to be back in Soho during the late-summer buzz, but admits she has found easing out of lockdown difficult. “I didn’t want to see anybody at first. I was like, ‘What do you mean I’ve got to go to a dinner?’” Now, she’s back in London, attending Fashion Week parties and popping into Alfies Antique Market to browse for vintage jewelry, a favorite pastime. “I bought these yesterday,” she says, shaking her head so her new earrings shimmy. “I can’t walk in there without going, ‘Ooh, just one little pair...”’ She is also wearing a diamond pendant by Annina Vogel, a diamond ring she bought in Istanbul, a couple of Indian bangles and, on the third finger of her left hand, a vintage emerald and diamond ring, the one piece that she wears every day. It was a gift “from the boyfriend,” but it’s categorically not an engagement ring. “Oh, no, I’m not engaged. It’s more like, I’m in a relationship, I’m committed. I think after you’ve been married, that finger feels a bit empty. It was an ‘I’m going out with you, and I have a very empty finger, so give me a ring’ kind of present,” Kate cackles. Among her vintage treasures are several pieces from her own new jewelry collaboration with Messika. Kate fronted the Parisian brand’s 2019 campaign, alongside Joan Smalls and Sylvia Hoeks, and instantly hit it off with founder Valérie Messika. Although she has previously designed collections with the Brazilian jeweler Ara Vartanian in 2017, and with the French house Fred, in 2011, this partnership is Kate’s most personal, inspired by her own much-loved jewelry. “I brought a couple of boxes along to our first meeting, and we had a lot of fun looking through it all,” she says. “Valérie was surprised when she saw that most of my jewelry is antique, she thought I would be more rock ‘n’ roll, and I’m not really. My style is much more bohemian and eclectic.” That presented a challenge for Messika, whose knife-sharp contemporary diamond designs are worn by the likes of Beyoncé, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski. In 2017, the brand enlisted Gigi Hadid to co-create an ‘entry-level’ range that Kate says her daughter adores, but the Messika by Kate Moss collection comprises seriously high value, high jewelry, with prices strictly on application, but ranging from five to six figures. An art deco chapter features geometric, baguette-cut diamonds --Kate’s favorite-- set in yellow-gold hoop earrings, rings, bracelets and chokers. “I have a lot of art deco pieces; I love the decadence of that era. I’m also really into that 1970s, hippy-deluxe kind of decadence.” Which explains the diamond-set headpiece, with a fringe of baguettes resting between the brows, inspired by an Annie Leibovitz image of Kate taken in 1999. There’s another nod to her modeling heyday in slinky strands of diamonds, seemingly loosely tied around the neck, finger or wrist, a precious riff on the piece of leather she wore in a 1990s Peter Lindbergh shoot. Elsewhere, Messika recreated a 1920s glass bead tassel necklace in “metres of diamonds -- it’s so cool.” Kate’s passion for emeralds parlays into a suite featuring rich green malachite, while her love of Indian jewelry is evident in huge diamond bib necklaces, an earring connected via diamond chains to a nose ring, and a tasselled lapel pin worthy of a maharaja. Kate first discovered Indian jewelry when she went traveling there at 22. “I went to Jaipur and Rajasthan; all the girls