Suzanne Harrington: Deep fakes are deeply worrying, but Kate Moss's one is real
Kate Moss in Milan last month. Does Kate Moss herself give a hoot about her doppelganger? Unlikely. She’s too busy being Kate Moss. Picture: AP Photo/Luca Bruno
News reaches us from Paris Fashion Week that Kate Moss has a double. A doppelgänger. A model from Ormskirk — which sounds like a Siberian outpost, but is in Lancashire — who looks so like Kate Moss that her Instagram username is @iamnotkatemoss. She’s known as Fake Moss.
On the Daily Mail website — and yes, I washed my hands afterwards — there are adjacent photos of the two models, one named Denise Ohnona, the other Kate Moss; to the untrained eye, they’re indistinguishable. It’s deepfake, except real. But does anyone care? Does Kate Moss herself give a hoot? Unlikely. She’s too busy being Kate Moss.
