Chanel & Burberry part ways with Kate Moss

[meme527]

s-c-a-p-e-g-o-a-t.

look at the vultures and hypocrites descend!

with all the money she's made people, they (her employers, agents, family and friends) should offer to help her get clean, get herself mentally together, put her feet back on the ground after all this. i hope she still has sane, non-addicted friends.

as for her daughter - you never saw pics of her parenting, did you? why was no one mentioning the (unfashionable and no doubt inconvenient) child before? because everybody wanted kate to be exactly what she appeared to be - a glamourous style icon, thin and beautiful and chic. not a mom. not with baby fat and vomit on her chinchilla.

now people have the audacity to treat her like some monster. why, because the fantasy is destroyed? this is probably a good thing for her.

and when it comes to addiction, 99.9% of people should be able to relate. not just addiction to drugs but eating, or NOT eating, or shopping, or shoplifting, or cigarettes and chocolate milk, or sex, or whatever - it all messes with your brain and points out some hole in your heart that needs filling.

so let s/he who is without sin cast the first stone -

wish her the best!

 

[melt977]

Food for thought on Guardian.co.uk:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1576605,00.html

 

[SiennaInLondon]

s-c-a-p-e-g-o-a-t.

look at the vultures and hypocrites descend!

with all the money she's made people, they (her employers, agents, family and friends) should offer to help her get clean, get herself mentally together, put her feet back on the ground after all this. i hope she still has sane, non-addicted friends.

as for her daughter - you never saw pics of her parenting, did you? why was no one mentioning the (unfashionable and no doubt inconvenient) child before? because everybody wanted kate to be exactly what she appeared to be - a glamourous style icon, thin and beautiful and chic. not a mom. not with baby fat and vomit on her chinchilla.

now people have the audacity to treat her like some monster. why, because the fantasy is destroyed? this is probably a good thing for her.

and when it comes to addiction, 99.9% of people should be able to relate. not just addiction to drugs but eating, or NOT eating, or shopping, or shoplifting, or cigarettes and chocolate milk, or sex, or whatever - it all messes with your brain and points out some hole in your heart that needs filling.

so let s/he who is without sin cast the first stone -

wish her the best!

Karma for you. Sanity to this thread

 

[Meg]

That was a decent article by Jess Cartner-Morley. I generally don't like her writing style and fashion comments but I think her point there is very true. Thanks for the link

 

[Yanka]

I for one think that this recent wave of protest against kate Moss is ridiculous. Who honestly didn't know that she was a druggie? I agree with what someone said earlier - the only thing she did wrong was get caught. Everyone does really shady sh*t in private. Even YOU. People act like only bad people do drugs, or that drugs make people bad. I don't agree with that. And I don't think Kate Moss is a bad person. She's just a druggie. If that interferes with the way she manages day to day life, then that drug-head needs serious help. But I haven't seen any evidence that she's recklessly harming herself or others. All I see is pictures of her snorting coke and people going apesh*t about it.

It seems like her drug use only became an issue after it became public. Kate was minding her own damn business, doing whatever the hell she was doing. Her acts only became public after some money-hungry picture snapping a**hole sold her pictures to the press, who are obviously having a field day with it.

I don't think doing drugs is the worst thing anyone can do. Be it cocaine, or whatever. I just don't think drugs are that big of an issue in the whole scheme of things. A lot of people bring up the fact that she has a daughter and that she should set a better example for her, which I'm really sympathetic to... but unless she's snorting cocaine in the presence of her daughter I really don't see how that concerns anyone. That's a moral issue and no one is in a position to tell someone else how they should live their lives morally. This is probably going to upset a lot of people, and I really don't care because that's exactly how I feel. People are under the impression that there's only one way to be a good parent, when in fact there are about a billion different ways a parent can do a good job raising their children. Who here doesn't have a mother or father who did or continues to do something that people would consider morally reprehensible? But that doesn't mean they're bad people.

I couldnt agree with you more... whats the big deal? it is her leisure choice in the end of the day, some people likegetting wasted on tequila, i dont understand how it is a crime if it doesnt affect others. Im sorry but i think the idea than some gullible kids would see these photos in the paper and think "mmm kate moss is cool, she does coke, so im gonna go and snort some" is very presumtious. if people choose to do drugs it is because they think drugs are fun not because kate moss does it. kate moss is not a bad person, she didnt sacrife her child in a satanic cult, she just did something that some people dont agree on in her private time. How does it affect you and me? if she chose to get high and than be inevitably depressed and feel sh*tty than allright, its her health and her life. I think vandalizing a person's private life and exsposing their sexual preferences to the whole world is a much bigger deal and personally something like that outrages me, not what kate moss chooses to do for fun.

 

[fie]

How many people don't know some city banker snorting away at it??? Don't see anyone thinking a blind bit of notice about them. What about athletes they even get tested before they do the really big "jobs"???
This is London and these things happen all the time......... now I get quite irritated that Moss is now classed as a druggie, what if she just do this stuff when she party, because in that case I know plenty people who should be sacked from work, or be investigated by the police. I hate drugs and don't think they are that smart really but each to their own..................................

 

[mischievous]

She reminds me of Janice Dickenson... way before my time but still holds true...

Maybe we´ll see Kate at the Americans Next Top Model # 15 edition or some crap like that....

 

[GCc]

Food for thought on Guardian.co.uk:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1576605,00.html

i like this article thanks. the best parts IMO:

Rumours of Kate Moss's lifestyle have abounded for years. But it has not been a case of designers and marketing directors wanting Moss despite these rumours; they adored her, in part, because of them. They may have been assured that the rumours were no more than urban myths, but they were myths that added to Moss's appeal. To the brands she represented, Moss was more than a pretty face; she brought a priceless whiff of edginess and excitement.
[...]There is a world of difference between hinting at naughtiness - calling it decadence, bohemianism, partying - and having drug-use laid bare. Now the line between that fantasy and reality has been crossed, fashion has become retrospectively moralistic, however implausibly. In nurturing the associations of decadence in the image of Kate Moss, the fashion industry was playing with fire; it is Moss, it seems, who has ended up getting burned.

 

[Meg]

agree GCc. I think that is everyone's argument rolled up into one nice paragraph.

 

[melt977]

Moss' Parenting Quizzed

From contactmusic.com

Troubled supermodel KATE MOSS will face questioning from social services concerning the care of her daughter LILA GRACE, following recent allegations of the beauty's cocaine use.
Moss has been in New York since a British newspaper last week (15SEP05) published photographs of her allegedly snorting cocaine.

She is set to return to her St John's Wood, London, home next week (begs26SEP05) and to her two-year-old daughter, who is currently staying with her father, Moss's ex partner, publisher JEFFERSON HACK.

But when she arrives in the UK, the model faces questioning from Westminster Council Social Services.

A spokesman for the council says, "We would take any allegations seriously that any child in Westminster may have been put as risk or is suffering neglect or physical harm."

 

[*AndoraStar*]

^^ It's about time.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

I didn't know that social services (not to mention the metropolitan police commisioner) were in the habit of waiting to get their information from tabloid rags before investigating.

The SAS could save money by scrapping their intelligence forces and watching CNN instead.

 

[Odette]

I just read the thing of Sienna Miller replacing Kate for Buberry ads.

 

[tiffany]

I didn't know that social services (not to mention the metropolitan police commisioner) were in the habit of waiting to get their information from tabloid rags before investigating.

The SAS could save money by scrapping their intelligence forces and watching CNN instead.

^ only you know they'd spend it on subscriptions to the sun and greasy food. ... Hang on, isn't that what they do already?

I think the media hysterics about Kate recently have been absurd. I don't agree with taking drugs, nor am I endorsing it in her case, but that's Kate's business not anyone elses. The articles about her make it seem as though the whole incident is highly shocking, as though she is the only person in the public eye ever to dabble in drugs

 

[susie_bubble]

Burberry's double standards over Kate and Freddie
KATE MOSS had very publicly been banged to rights by fashion giants Chanel, Burberry and H&M, which have all cancelled their forthcoming projects with the supermodel following allegations of cocaine use.
But far from winning praise for taking the moral high ground, Burberry now stands accused of double standards. For the British fashion house, famed for its beige check coats, had no qualms when it came to hiring bad boy Lord Freddie Windsor for a campaign in 2000, a year after he publicly admitted taking cocaine during his first year at university.
Is it, therefore, yet another case of one rule for the royals and another for everyone else, even if she does happen to be the world's most famous model?
A spokesperson for Burberry declines to comment, but perhaps Windsor's and Moss's different crisis management styles hold the key.
While Moss privately apologised to H&M in a bid to save her £500,000 contract with them, she stopped short of issuing a public apology for more than a week.
Windsor, however, was quick to recognise the eorror of his ways on having his drug escapades exposed by a redtop paper. He issued an immediate apology, on the same day, saying: 'I have rejected that side of my life and I'm going to commit myself to studies.'
Moss is clearly not so quick to swallow her pride.

Taken from today's Evening Standard London's Diary column.

 

[Tiny Dancer]

What I think is double standard, is everyone here has complained about Pete Doherty's drug abuse and it't effect on Kate for oh, so long, but when it comes out she actually does drugs, it's not a big deal. Then what's the fuss about him? There's a looong thread about him on this site, and how he is scum because of his drug abuse.

 

[CharlottefromCA]

I just read the thing of Sienna Miller replacing Kate for Buberry ads.

I'd be shocked if they do that... for sure!

 

[PrinceOfCats]

What I think is double standard, is everyone here has complained about Pete Doherty's drug abuse and it't effect on Kate for oh, so long, but when it comes out she actually does drugs, it's not a big deal. Then what's the fuss about him? There's a looong thread about him on this site, and how he is scum because of his drug abuse.

There's no evidence that Ms. Moss is a serious drug addict.

 

[bun-bun]

There's no evidence that Ms. Moss is a serious drug addict.

Snorting 5 lines of cocaine in one sitting doesn't exactly label her an "amatour" druggie. She has to have done this in the past, and there's been plenty of evidence that there is no such thing as a "casual" snorter.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Snorting 5 lines of cocaine in one sitting doesn't exactly label her an "amatour" druggie. She has to have done this in the past, and there's been plenty of evidence that there is no such thing as a "casual" snorter.

You seem very well informed about the habits of cocaine addicts...