Lauren Hutton was Kate Moss's minder 'Tiger queen' Lauren Hutton gets feisty about men in the fashion world, protecting Kate Moss, and the importance of using your high heels as a weapon. It's probably fair to say that without Lauren Hutton, there'd be no Kate Moss, or Lara Stone, or Georgia Jagger. The gap-toothed tomboy supermodel who stands at merely 5ft 7 (well below average for her chosen career) paved the way for imperfection in a world obsessed with the opposite, ditching the mortician's wax she used to fill in the gap between her front teeth and refusing to conform. Now 69, and still in demand as both a model and an actress (Hutton has graced a record-breaking 26 Vogue covers and boasts over 50 performing credits on her imdb page), it's great to see she has lost none of the fighting spirit that has kept her at the top of her game for half a century. IN PICTURES: Stylish celebrities over 60 Speaking to Net-a-porter's online magazine The Edit about her experience of the fashion world, Hutton is on characteristically fighting form. "A lot of the time, fashion is angry," she rasps. It's f***ed up mother f***ers. Guys p***ed off that they're not women. But that's why you have to use fashion to do what you want - and not be bossed around by it. This feistiness has been a common thread through her life in general following a difficult childhood, but served both her, and fellow models well throughout her career. Kate [Moss], whom I knew when she was 14, was always being made fun of by the other models. They were jealous, but I was the tiger queen, so I could crack the whip over them. When we did the Millennium Vogue cover with all the other models, Annie Leibovitz put me right in the middle of them, and when I heard the catty remarks at Kate, I used my mouth like a bull whip. IN PICTURES: gap-toothed beauties Hutton has much to say about the superficialities of the fashion world and those who populate it, from Botox to "hoe wear" (young girls dressing like sluts), to impractical sky-high heels - on the subject of which, she shares a great life skill we could all do with practicing: I used to live on the Bowery when it was crack city, and I'd never go out in heels unless I had done The Test: standing on one heel, whipping off the other and holding it up to someone's head in three seconds. Girls, no matter where you are, you've got to be able to use that shoe as a weapon. So, ankle straps are out and a basic sense of balance is in (I toppled off my kitten heels trying this...). To be even half as stylish, spirited and flexible as the 'tiger queen' when we're approaching 70, would definitely make all the pain of ageing vanish. Well, we can dream... Lauren Hutton at Stella McCartney's New York presentation. PHOTO: Wire Image