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HM ditches Kate Moss
The Local ^ | 9/21/05 | Meatball Chef

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.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ads; cocaine; hm; katemoss; mdm; sweden
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1 posted on 09/21/2005 11:25:40 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

We have rules, people.


2 posted on 09/21/2005 11:27:10 AM PDT by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: gopwinsin04

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!


3 posted on 09/21/2005 11:27:52 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

Shows what I know - I always figured that she maintained her 75-pound physique via heroin, not cocaine.


4 posted on 09/21/2005 11:28:04 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: BurbankKarl

Anna Nichole Smith...


5 posted on 09/21/2005 11:28:43 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: neodad

6 posted on 09/21/2005 11:29:04 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

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,

 it was probably sarcasm)

7 posted on 09/21/2005 11:29:04 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: BurbankKarl

8 posted on 09/21/2005 11:29:21 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: BurbankKarl
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!

9 posted on 09/21/2005 11:31:13 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: BurbankKarl

Why don't they just use a stick figure.


10 posted on 09/21/2005 11:31:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: BurbankKarl

Oh yeah,
you can tell she kept her weight down in a healthy manner ;)


11 posted on 09/21/2005 11:31:36 AM PDT by najida (Once upon a a very long time ago, in a land far, far away.....It was still all Bush's fault.)
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To: BurbankKarl

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.


12 posted on 09/21/2005 11:31:56 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: neodad
>We have rules, people

The rules are about
pretty girls. Not string-bean freak
drug-addled corpses!

13 posted on 09/21/2005 11:32:39 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: All
Funny!
14 posted on 09/21/2005 11:33:56 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: BurbankKarl

Ick. I've seen healthier people starving to death in Uganda.


15 posted on 09/21/2005 11:34:00 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: BurbankKarl

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.


16 posted on 09/21/2005 11:34:59 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: BurbankKarl

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.


17 posted on 09/21/2005 11:35:27 AM PDT by American Quilter
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To: BurbankKarl
Ugh... forget the coke, she needs some pizza!
18 posted on 09/21/2005 11:35:44 AM PDT by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: theFIRMbss

Maybe she can sign a straw sponsor

19 posted on 09/21/2005 11:36:15 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: theFIRMbss
The rules are about pretty girls. Not string-bean freak drug-addled corpses!

You're right. I'm going to go look for some MoDo threads.

20 posted on 09/21/2005 11:36:22 AM PDT by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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