Cocaine climbdown
Fashion houses who claimed to have dumped Kate Moss change their tune
LESS than two months since she was ostracised by the fashion world after being caught snorting cocaine, Kate Moss is being welcomed back with open arms by the companies which publicly claimed to have dumped her. The creative director of Burberry, which dropped her from a campaign advertising its autumn collection, yesterday insisted that the model was ‘absolutely still a part of our family’.
She has also signed a lucrative deal with Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, who was said seven weeks ago to be ‘very heated up’ by her drug taking and to have totally ruled out using her in the foreseeable future.
And Rimmel, which said it was reviewing her contract in the wake of the scandal, is now wholeheartedly backing the 31-yearold model and has already put out a new range of mascaras with her picture on it.
Peter Stoker, director of the Drug Prevention Alliance, said he believed the fashion companies are giving the wrong message by re- employing Miss Moss so quickly. ‘If she had shown any regrets and said she would never do it again and that she encouraged people never to touch cocaine it
circumstances both Kate and would be one thing – but she has not
Burberry have mutually agreed that it done anything like that,’ he said.
is inappropriate to go ahead.’
‘The message is that Kate Moss can
As for Roberto Cavalli, he helped walk on water, even if it is awash with
Miss Moss signal her return to business cocaine.’ at the weekend when a striking
Miss Moss’s return from her brief
picture of her clad in just a bikini was purdah was signalled by Burberry’s
released to publicise his spring/summer creative director Christopher Bailey, 2006 collection. The pictures are who laughed off suggestions that the
said to have earned her more than British fashion label had meant to
£100,000. drop her for good.
Seven weeks ago a spokesman,
‘There has been so much nonsense
asked if Cavalli would use Miss Moss in the press about Burberry dropping
again, replied: ‘I don’t think so.’ Kate,’ he said. ‘Is Kate still part of our
Rimmel, which ‘ reviewed’ its longstanding family? Absolutely. contract with Miss Moss in
‘ Yes, she has some issues that she
the wake of the scandal, has continued probably needs to resolve, but don’t to use her for its make-up campaigns, we all? We are certainly not going to saying: ‘ Kate has taken the say, because of one incident, that she
difficult step to address her personal has nothing to do with us.
problems so it is only natural that we
He seems to have conveniently forgotten
support her.’ a statement put out by the
H&M, which was the first company company on September 21 which
to drop Miss Moss causing a domino said: ‘ We had one project scheduled
effect within the industry, refused to with Kate for this autumn and in the
comment when asked whether it had any plans to use her in the future. And among the other companies who jumped on the publicity bandwagon of distancing themselves from the model, including French fashion house Chanel and American jewellery company H Stern, none ruled out using her again when approached by the Mail yesterday.
Miss Moss was photographed snorting cocaine in a recording studio with her drug addict boyfriend Pete Doherty at the end of September.
For more than a week she refused to make any sort of comment about the pictures but issued an apology after both Burberry and Chanel dropped her saying ‘there are various personal issues that I need to address’. A few days later she went into rehab at the Meadows Clinic in Arizona.
She has been out of there for just over a week now and was pictured on Wednesday in New York having dinner with friends.