Kate Moss sells out in New York, too

Well, it opened at 10am. And by 11am, Barneys in New York - as well as other branches across the States - had sold out of Kate Moss's Topshop collection. All 11,000 pieces of it.

Unlike Topshop over here, Barneys was only offering 26 designs from Kate's range. But it seems that our American cousins have lapped it up - to a certain degree. According to today's New York Times, there were fewer than 100 women waiting outside the flagship store on Madison Avenue (pictured here) yesterday morning - although the teenage sisters at the front of the line had been there for four hours. Still, the collection sold out nationwide within the hour - and a spokesperson for Barneys has said that they now plan to order twice the amount for the autumn.

As in the UK when La Moss's collection launched, American shoppers were limited to five pieces each yesterday. But unlike in the UK, the window display of Barneys New York is very quirky and imaginative (ie. a bit odd), as you can see above. No big billboard of Kate in her trademark waiscoat and denim hotpants here, oh no. Instead, the Barneys windows are currently festooned with images of Kate's head - floating rather bizarrely without a neck or body - white statues and classical busts, and strange speech balloon cards saying such things as: "I want a date with Kate!", Long live Sir Phil!" and "I love Kate. Oink!". Well, that last one is coming out of the mouth of a pig statue. So it does make perfect sense.

At the launch party in Barneys the night before - where, as you can see, Britain's Other Supermodel also put in an appearance - Kate looked fabulous in a see-through mini-dress from her range, worn with a big black belt, big black pants... and, erm, that's it. Well, as the creative director of Barneys said this week: "People are fascinated and intrigued by the way Kate puts herself together." And she most certainly proved him right here.

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