Secret footage reveals inside Kate Moss’ lavish 50th party at Paris restaurant including vintage champagne & A-list pals
KATE MOSS splurged more than £110,000 to host a lavish 50th birthday bash in Paris with 30 of her closest friends and family.
The supermodel shut down the uber-exclusive, Michelin-star Laurent restaurant overlooking the Eiffel Tower for the dinner.
In typical Kate style, she flouted French laws and risked a £400 fine to puff away on cigarettes indoors as she partied until 2am, although she stayed off the booze.
Her guests all diligently went outside to smoke — many using the venue’s private garden as sub-zero temperatures swept the capital.
Awkwardly, one guest was left scrambling for a lint roller after the white cashmere throws available to keep smokers warm shed all over his suit.
Marble floors
With rat-like cunning I managed to get into the exclusive bash having stood outside smoking too — striking up a conversation with a handsome male model, who promptly ushered me over the hallowed threshold.
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Once in, and with Mossy’s infectious cackle reverberating around the candle-lit dining room, I helped myself to a glass of champers. It was her big day, after all.
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The Croydon-born star gleefully bellowed, “I’m the birthday girl” as she welcomed her high- society pals, including designer Stella McCartney, tennis ace Venus Williams and beauty mogul Charlotte Tilbury.
Former British Vogue editor Edward Enninfull was there too, though not wanting to overdo it during Paris Fashion Week, made a quiet beeline for the exit shortly before 11.30pm.
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The haute cuisine restaurant’s opulent interior — featuring chandeliers and marble floors — had been transformed to represent an English country garden in a nod to Kate’s Cotswolds home.
A 65ft-long floral table centrepiece was so tall guests sitting opposite each other had to look through a wall of pink roses, poppies and purple sweet peas as they dined on peppered artichokes followed by succulent beef fillet.
Rather than drawing attention to her landmark age, the hand-drawn menu simply read: “Celebrating Kate” and was adorned with roses and an intricate floral “K”.
Each guest had a mini cushion as a place marker, hand-sewn with their name in baby blue stitching.
White roses, Kate’s favourite bloom, and heavily scented flowers adorned every side table — and even the sinks in the loos.
The party-goers knocked back 24 bottles of vintage Mercier champagne — costing £86 each — over dinner as they toasted Kate.
Still got rhythm
Following a brief respite in the bogs, I rejoined the guests after the apple pie dessert had been cleared away as the DJ blasted out tunes.
Yes, at times it was mildly awkward. But still I partied.
Generous Kate laid on a free bar all night — with fun-loving Charlotte merrily knocking back “margarita, no salt” into the early hours.
However, Charlotte was later left raging after her chauffeur-driven car was accidentally taken by Kate’s ex-boyfriend Dan Macmillan.
Clearly in the party spirit, Kate repeatedly waved her hands in the air and danced with her pals as a DJ played her favourite tracks.
“It’s my birthday!” she told her mates, receiving hugs and swaying, remarkably in time, to the music.
She may be sober now, but she’s still got rhythm.
Rather than clutching a tipple, she chain-smoked her Marlboro Lights as if a cigarette ban was coming in at midnight.
Music blasted from the decks so loudly it could be heard clearly from across the street, as guests danced to Blondie's Heart of Glass, David Bowie’s Rebel Rebel and Madonna’s Vogue.
A tribute to Kate’s pal and former neighbour George Michael, who died on Christmas Day 2016, came in the form of Wham!’s 1984 single Everything She Wants.
It wasn’t all fun and games for her friend Sadie Frost though — it was rumoured she had lost her passport during the whirlwind trip.
While the guest list was a who’s who of fashion’s rich and powerful, just like many bashes across the UK, not every guest saw eye to eye.
One of fashion’s most powerful men, who I won’t name, was overheard asking one of Kate’s pals “not to make things awkward” as “a dinner is not the place”.
The evening was a notable change of tone for Kate who became almost as famous for her wild ways at the turn of the millennium as she was for gracing the covers of fashion bibles.
In years gone by, Kate has hosted giant raucous birthday parties. Guest lists would be brimming with every A-lister going, all keen to be seen with fashion’s “It girl”.
But despite a smattering of famous faces including Venus, who arrived after dinner having attended a Louis Vuitton show in the French capital, this time it was more personal.
Shedding hangers-on, Kate had arrived with boyfriend Nikolai von Bismarck and her model daughter Lila Moss.
She still knows how to let her hair down and I’m sure she’ll continue to out-party the rest of us.
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Many happy returns, Kate.
For more, exclusive details from Kate’s big night in Paris read tomorrow's edition of The Sun - and check out her birthday playlist on Spotify:
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IT was one of the most exclusive parties of the year, with the creme de la creme of the fashion world turning out for Kate Moss’s 50th birthday.
What Bizarre does best is bring you all of the action from the heart of showbiz, so our very own Jack Hardwick boarded the Eurostar to Paris with the aim of partying with Kate.
And, after using a little je ne sais quoi, he was the only reporter in the room.
In a fancy suit and carrying a flute of bubbly, Jack spent the night mingling with stars – so you can read what went on as the world’s most famous model celebrated her milestone in his report.