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Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:35
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LONDON: Fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz today accepted the explanation and apology offered by super model Kate Moss following allegations of drug-taking. The store said it decided to giver her a second chance.
The 31-year-old super model’s career seemed on the brink after the tabloid Daily Mirror published pictures of her snorting cocaine. The photographs were from a video shot secretly at a west London studio recording last week. The video shows her snorting five lines of cocaine in the span of 40 minutes.
The video has also triggered off allegations about her sex excesses. There were reports that she took cocaine during a function where Nelson Mandela was present. The News of the World yesterday had a cover article whose headline screamed “Cocaine Kate’s 3-in-bed orgies lesbian orgies”. The article claimed she had instigated sex with some women friends under the influence of cocaine. Associates of the model said that she was never known to be attracted to women, when sober. The newspaper said she perhaps dropped her inhibitions after taking the drug.
At the recording studio, she was in the company of friend Pete Doherty, the singer of pop band Babyshambles. Doherty is known to be drug addict and many friends of Moss have often advised her to drop him.
The stories and the photographs have rattled her clients more than the super model herself. Many seem surprised that H&M have decided to give her a second chance. Several leading fashion houses and cosmetic firms have contracts with Moss. These include Burberry, Chanel, Dior, H. Stern jeweler and Rimmel. Most refused to say anything about the incident but accepted that the allegations of Moss’s cocaine habit and sexual excesses could tarnish their brand images.
H Stern refused to comment when asked if they would hire her again.
In the meanwhile, the National Drug Prevention Alliance, has demanded that the fashion firms drop her as she would set a bad example in society, especially among her young fans. They argue that as a super model she would influence the behaviour of many young girls who are known to follow not just the styles of these models but also aspire to be like them. Teenage girls particularly, regard Moss as having a “to-die-for” body and looks.
The supermodel was discovered when she was just 14 and is today one of the big names on the catwalk earning around £4 million a year.
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