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n early October of this year, Messika, and the Parisian luxury brand’s founder, Valerie Messika, were all over the headlines of lifestyle and fashion articles and plastered across social media. The brand’s second collaboration with the perennially stylish Kate Moss, Messika by Kate Moss, culminated in a Paris Fashion Week launch party, replete with a high-wattage catwalk, that was attended by everyone from Cardi B to Anna Winter to Christian Louboutin. The jewelry is unequivocally fabulous and embodies the wearable-diamond ethos of the brand, even in more opulent designs like head pieces and Art Deco-inspired statement necklaces. The collection launch is a continuation of the relationship Valerie Messika forged with Kate Moss prior to their first collaborative collection, which launched in 2020. In an episode we recorded for the COUTURE Podcast at the start of this year, Valerie gave us insight into how that friendship came about and what it was like working with Kate (yes, we’re on a first-name basis now…). Below are 5 additional scoops we learned during that discussions.