Article: Focus: Is Kate Moss the new Mona Lisa? The person who paid pounds 3.9m for her portrait last week might be forgiven for thinking so. And style guru Stephen Bayley thinks he has a point. The supermodels of the 16th and 21st centuries are inscrutable, erotically charged - and unattainable

The nation is in thrall to the Kate Moss Code. A severe smile and enigmatic sexuality are captivating, looking out at us from newspapers everywhere. Christie's has just sold a version of them, translated on to canvas in Lucian Freud's Naked Portrait 2002, for pounds 3.9m - the second highest price ever paid for a Lucian Freud. The girl from Croydon has them in equal measure with the mystery woman of the Louvre. George Sand said the 16th-century supermodel we call Mona Lisa possessed la laide seduisante (seductive ugliness). Kate Moss has the same: those thin, endless legs, tight boots, tighter trousers, amazing hair. Her image is everywhere. But Kate Moss is not conventionally beautiful. ...

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