Kate Moss Modeling Career Update Following Tabloid Scandal
Posted on September 24, 2005
It's time for the Kate Moss Update. After her drug and alcohol soaked evening ended up on the cover of the London tabloid Daily Mirror, and one of her friends shared even more salacious allegations about her party lifestyle, the major fashion houses have been scrambling to figure out how to respond to the scandal.
Kate Moss earns around $7 million U.S. from being the face of Chanel (perfume), Dior (perfume), Gloria Vanderbilt (jeans), Stella McCartney (fashion), Rimmel (cosmetics) and Burberry (clothing and accessories.) One by one the giant conglomerates which own these labels decided to dump Kate. So here's the tally so far:
- Burberry: Kate has been fired and Burberry will re-shoot its new campaign, incurring a substantial cost and no doubt delighting the model who will take her place.
- Chanel: Kate's contract will not be renewed when it ends this fall.
- Coty: The parent company of Rimmel cosmetics has announced that they will keep Kate on because she's apologized and promised to get help.
- Gloria Vanderbilt: The company issued a paranoid statement denying foreknowledge that she had a drug problem, but hasn't said whether she'll continue to be the
facebum of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans in the future. - H&M: After first saying they'd keep her, they have now announced they're dumping Kate for the fall Stella McCartney campaign.
No word from Dior yet. Supposedly Kate has dumped her horrible heroin-addict, rockstar boyfriend Pete Doherty (who's band is appropriately enough named Babyshambles) and is looking into rehab.
Many fashion insiders are starting to grumble that Kate is being treated like she's a politician and is being held to a higher standard than everyone else. They say that the boards of directors of the big corporations looked the other way when she wasn't actually photographed doing drugs, but now that the secret's out, they can't afford to have their products associated with the drug lifestyle which keeps her so thin. As one source noted "She wouldn't have this problem if she'd just stress-eat like normal people." Ah, but if she engaged in stress-eating like normal people, she wouldn't look like Kate Moss. And that, to us, pretty much sums up the whole thing.