Poor Kate
Don't you just love the story about H & M firing Kate Moss because she got caught on film doing coke?
Imagine...a model who snorts coke. And then is fired for setting a bad example for young women.
I think this sets an important precedent. Next, clothing makers and sellers ought to fire every model who is anorexic. (After all, images of Kate Moss being super-thin have probably made more women become anorexic than images of Kate Moss doing blow will make women start tooting up.) Or drinks before the age of 21. Or is just incredibly superficial and sends the message that the most important thing in life is to be beautiful, thin, rich, under-fed and under-read, and just generally dumb as a bag of rocks (although weighing considerably less).
Honestly, the hypocrisy here is incredible. It's not like everyone hasn't known that Kate Moss has done coke for years. Not to mention that her boyfriend is a heroin addict. And frankly, virtually everything about your typical supermodel sets a bad example, not just for young women, but for pretty much everyone. Isn't that kind of the point of supermodels? To suggest that they are counterculture, and you want to be like them? I mean, the message is kind of lost on me, though I like to look at supermodels as much as the next guy...but apparently it's an effective pitch.
I love the irony that a supermodel has fallen from grace after being photographed for doing something wrong, when virtually every time a model is photographed, they're sending out equally unhelpful imagery?
