Kate Moss wearing Mick Jagger's Union Jack cape is pure rock 'n' roll

Britain's Queen of Rock 'n' Roll has done it again.
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LONDON -- Kate Moss -- Britain's Queen of Rock 'n' Roll -- has gone and done it again. 

In Moss' latest Vogue shoot, the supermodel pays homage to The Rolling Stones by wearing Mick Jagger's famous union jack cape, and not much else.


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The 'Britannia flag cape' -- designed by Chrissie Walsh -- was worn by Jagger at UK gigs during the band's European Tour in 1982.

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Mick Jagger on tour in 1982. Credit: Graham Wiltshire/Getty

May's issue of the magazine, which is out Thursday, is a celebration of the Rolling Stones retrospective, Exhibitionism, which opens at London's Saatchi Gallery on Tuesday, April 5. 

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The retrospective features iconic costumes, photography and posters, as well as instruments spanning the band's 50-year history.



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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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