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Friday, September 23, 2005

Kate Moss Does What?

This Salon piece does a decent examination of the hypocrisy of the fashion industry in dumping all over Kate Moss just because she got caught doing drugs. (The holier than than attitude is utterly ridiculous. A hot, rich, super-thin supermodel who dates a junkie does drugs? Yeah, that’s shocking.) Unfortunately, the writer ruins it all in the second paragraph with this statement:

“Moss and her band of wraiths not only drove insanely beautiful but fleshy models like Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland from magazine covers…”

Kathy Ireland? Insanely beautiful? Sorry, but that is just all wrong. Ireland may have been a “supermodel” in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue sense, but she was never a true supermodel. For me, the true supermodels will always be the ones like Linda, Christy, Naomi, and Kate. The ones who wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. Models like Ireland may make millions appearing in Doritos commercials, but does she inspire Karl Lagerfeld? I think not.

(I really should go read some Wittgenstein or something to get me back on a more intellectual track after this rather vapid post, but I just can’t help it. I miss the heyday of the supermodel. I even gave up my Vogue subscription because they keep putting actresses on the cover instead of models. Less Renee “Scrunch-Face” Zellwegger and more Natalia Vodionova, please.)

posted by Lady Tiara @ 9:11 PM  

3 Comments:

  • At 9/24/05, 3:38 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Am I missing something here? The fashion industry has always promoted the wasted, jaded, hedonistic, nacissistic image-life style-characters, and makes trillions. Now that you have a "method" model (one who actually lives the image she's promoting and whose dedication and skills should be role-modelled by other 15 -year-old's entering the industry) in Ms Moss, her sponsors should simply be esctatic, and give her a bonus (or an extra kilo). I think Moss together with Robert Downey Jr. snorting coke wearing Dior or Channel would be the grooviest billboard ever. I'd bone out 20 grands to buy the gears.

    Do we really want to see rock and roll sobers up? Would EMI drop a drug-using, underage-girls-abusing rock star? God forbid! If they do, 99% of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers would be axed. So Channel, take a cue from your sister industry across the street: drugs good for business.

    Yablaz

     

  • At 9/30/05, 8:26 PM, Blogger Kathryn Is So Over said…

    (sniff)
    It's Chanel.

     

  • At 10/1/05, 7:15 PM, Blogger Big Sky Girl said…

    I agree. We're talking about an industry that for ten years flaunted "heroin chic" until models and designers started dying. It's worse than hypocritical it's bs. And H&M had no problem showing Karl Lagerfeld's special collection even though he has admitted to rampant cocaine and heroin use in the 80s.

    They want everyone to believe that it doesn't happen anymore, and they're perfectly willing to forgive the past, but do it in the present and they will burn the scapegoat at the stake.

     

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