Drunk Kate Moss Tears Up Designer Dress

Only yesterday we were running a story about Kate Moss and how she seems to be enjoying a rather tame lifestyle that - while happy and healthy enough, combined with a new diet, a new man, no crack, the desire to put on some weight and lose the skeletal look - was not at all what we had learned to expect from the supermodel. Well, I hated to sound like I really wanted the old Kate back (although secretly I did) but like it or not, she is back in her hard-partying mode - and this time, the victim was not just her dignity, but also a vintage designer dress worth several thousand pounds.

Kate took part at the opening of the new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum, where she arrived with fashion photographer Mario Testino. As she walked into the venue of the £1.000-a-head fundraising event which was attended by 460 VIP guests, Kate looked picture-perfect glamorous wearing a golden vintage cream satin dress. However, things didn't go too well for the model, who emerged some hours later with her dress badly torn and barely able to stand on her feet.

The party at the Victoria & Albert museum was put together by Alexandra Shulman, the editor of the British Vogue magazine, and marked the official launch of the museum's autumn exhibition called "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957". The exhibition will be open to the public at the end of the week and is made up of over 100 dresses from such French designers as Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Balmain, Balenciaga, as well as British designers the likes of Norman Hartnell and Hardy Amies.

Moss' dress (which the Daily mail suggests could have been Dior) however didn't share the lucky fate of the gowns that will be on display from Saturday onwards. The model managed to tear it under the shoulder blade, with two more holes in the middle of her back in the rear, revealing the fact that darling Kate was not wearing any underwear either. And while others in her position would probably have panicked and gone home to change, a true party animal like Kate simply chose to tie the dress around her waist and keep on enjoying the free bar - to such an extent, actually, that she stumbled out only at about 3 in the morning and had to be helped into the back of a car by her driver. Well, I suppose this shouldn't come as much of a surprise - at least the dress was not completely ruined. Now that would have been interesting.