Posted on 09/21/2005 11:25:38 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
Swedish clothing retailer Hennes and Mauritz has decided not to use Kate Moss in its forthcoming advertising campaign, after photographs of the supermodel snorting cocaine appeared in the British press last week.
"After having considered the situation, we have decided to cancel the planned campaign," said Liv Asarnoj, press officer at HM.
"It is not compatible with our clear opposition to drugs," she told Expressen.
Moss was due to model a range of clothes designed by Stella McCartney in preparation for the collection's launch in November. But images of her, taken in a London recording studio, dividing a pile of cocaine before snorting line after line of the drug through a rolled five pound note put the company off.
HM says it will go ahead with the advertising campaign but will replace Moss with another model.
"I can't say how the new campaign will be at the moment - I don't want to go into details," said Liv Asarnoj.
We have rules, people.
A million magic crystals, painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars almost over night
Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby, it's nobody else's fault, so don't do it!
Shows what I know - I always figured that she maintained her 75-pound physique via heroin, not cocaine.
Anna Nichole Smith...
I was going to post some pictures of her (being only passingly familar with the name) but she's just disgustingly thin. Even for a guy who has an attraction to the freakish, she's just gross.
I'll leave the posting of photos to others. Not this time.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Elizabeth Harrison, a fashion and entertainment publicist and co-owner of the Harrison-Shriftman agency, predicted the same. "I don't think anyone will find it surprising," Harrison said. "For better or worse, for artists — and Kate Moss is an artist in her own way — (drug use) is tolerated."
Let's see: Da Vinci,
Caravaggio, Manet,
Hockney, Moss -- She's clear!
Why don't they just use a stick figure.
Oh yeah,
you can tell she kept her weight down in a healthy manner ;)
That miserable human being is sickening skinny. My God! If anyone saw her in real life she'd make goosebumps of horror on your arms.
Collegen lips no doubt.
The rules are about
pretty girls. Not string-bean freak
drug-addled corpses!
Ick. I've seen healthier people starving to death in Uganda.
With so many hotter women to be found locally, why on earth would a Swedish retailer pay for Kate Moss as a model?
That definitely comes under the "stuck on stupid" category.
Wait, I don't understand. You mean to say this company is actually declining to use a famous supermodel just because she breaks the law and does things that set a bad example for others? I don't get it. The company has standards? Wow. I'm not sure I can deal with this.
Maybe she can sign a straw sponsor
You're right. I'm going to go look for some MoDo threads.
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