Kate Moss

Kate Moss has infuriated an upmarket department store with her demands for a designer smoking area.

The 36-year-old supermodel is launching her range of bags for Longchamp at Selfridges in London later this month and has reportedly astonished event organisers with her request as they fear she is more likely to use her promotional time socialising with her friends than trying to boost sales.

A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "It's Kate Moss - she can ask for what she likes and they'll probably bend over and give it to her.

"Longchamp are spending a fortune on the sponsorship deal to boost the label. But it'll look more of a promotion for brand Moss.

"The outside area is a bit of a problem. Her people want couches, cushions, tables, heaters and candles to make it comfy for her to have a cigarette.

"But she's only due to be there for an hour. They don't want to pay out lots for her to mingle with selected guests, only for her to hide in her VIP room drinking champagne with her pals."

Kate - who is dating The Kills rocker Jamie Hince - is famed for her love of smoking and it has previously been claimed that she makes her personal assistant leave a packet of her favourite Marlboro Lights on every table in her home before she goes to bed.

A source said: "Kate has five coffee tables spread between her living room, kitchen, office and bedroom so that's a lot of cigarettes.

Kate Moss' boyfriend bought her a £40,000 watch for her birthday.

The Kills rocker Jamie Hince presented the supermodel with the lavish 18 carat, rose gold piece of jewellery at a belated celebration he threw for her at London's Shoreditch House on Wednesday (20.01.10).

Kate - who celebrated turning 36 on January 16 with a sunshine break in Thailand - was joined at the trendy venue by Jamie's bandmate Alison Mosshart, Arctic Monkeys rocker Alex Turner, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Kate's long-time friend Sadie Frost.

Kate arrived at the party wearing a pair of leather hotpants, a white tuxedo jacket and high heels, and was later presented with a birthday cake which featured an iced image of her holding a microphone.

However, she was not wearing the engagement ring that Jamie, 40, was rumoured to have presented her with on her birthday, quashing speculation the pair are set to wed after more than two years together.

British supermodel Kate Moss has gotten engaged to her longtime beau, musician Jamie Hince, The Daily Telegraph says.

Moss previously dated actor Johnny Depp, former magazine executive Jefferson Hack and rocker Pete Doherty.

She reportedly met Hince, the guitarist for the band The Kills, in 2007.

The Telegraph said Hince, 40, proposed to Moss on her 36th birthday Saturday after flying out to Mustique where she was working.

Her spokesman declined to comment on the story, the newspaper said.

Kate Moss has got engaged.

The supermodel was stunned when her rocker lover Jamie Hince flew out to join her while she was working on Caribbean island Mustique and popped the question on her 36th birthday on Saturday (16.01.10).

A source said: "Kate was stunned, Jamie called her up and told her not to come home. He said he was flying out to Mustique. He had carefully picked a ring and chose her birthday to propose. It was the first time they had been alone together in quite a while and it was extremely emotional.

"Kate and Jamie are in a very good place, they already live together and this is the next step to settling down for good."

Jamie - who has been dating Kate since 2007 - had picked out a diamond ring with the help of business tycoon Sir Philip Green, who is Kate's boss at British high street chain Topshop, who she designs clothes for.

Kate Moss once dated an Italian prince.

The supermodel had a passionate affair with the heir to Italy's now abolished throne - Prince Emmanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Maria Di Savoia - in 2002.

The royal - who lives in exile in Switzerland - was introduced to the supermodel by singer Marianne Faithful when they visited him in Corsica.

Prince Emmanuelle, 37, said: "We were together about eight months and she was a fascinating woman, not weird at all.

"She came on a yacht to my house in Corsica. She was meant to stay three days but stayed three weeks."

Emmanuele has fond memories of his time with 35-year-old Kate - who is currently dating The Kills rocker Jamie Hince and has a seven-year-old daughter Lila Grace from a previous relationship - and even penned a song to commemorate their affair.

He added: "I even wrote a song for her with Marianne called 'The Pleasure Song', about ways to love. Then our relationship ended because that's how things go, but I remember her as a very passionate lady. We were young, our roads drifted and we split up." The prince later went on to marry French actress Clotilde Courau, 40.

He also won the fifth series of 'Ballando con le Stelle' - the Italian version of 'Dancing With The Stars' - last year.

Kate Moss has taken up synchronised swimming.

The British catwalk beauty spent almost a week mastering a water dance routine at a luxurious hotel in Phuket, Thailand - where she saw in the New Year - before performing for a big group of friends, including fellow model Naomi Campbell yesterday (05.01.10).

A source said: "Kate has spent five days solid preparing for this synchronised swimming display."

The 35-year-old style icon took the task so seriously she even wore professional attire and studied from a guide book to help her perfect the challenging moves.

The source added: "Underwater music was piped through her hotel pool, allowing her to practise her moves and refine the art of water ballet. Sporting a nose clip and floral swimming cap - worn ironically - she had a hotel worker download an online handbook so she could learn all the moves.

"Kate has perfected all the basic sculling moves and twirls, plus the eggbeater - basically treading water - but has really struggled with the crane which requires a great deal of core strength."

Kate's week of training ended last night (06.01.10) with an alcohol-fuelled performance which left her friends and rocker boyfriend Jamie Hince in hysterics.