Label dumps coke-sniffing Kate
2005-09-20 15:32
London - Global fashion retailer H&M has dropped Kate Moss from a planned advertising campaign after the supermodel allegedly took cocaine, the chain told AFP on Tuesday.
"We have decided to cancel the planned campaign with Kate Moss. After having evaluated the situation we have decided that a campaign with Kate Moss is inconsistent with H&M's clear dissociation with drugs," H&M spokesperson Liv Asarnoj said from Stockholm, where the group is based.
London's Daily Mirror tabloid reported last week that the 31-year-old supermodel is using cocaine.
The tabloid printed images from a video which it said showed the model doing five lines of cocaine in 40 minutes at a late-night music recording session, preparing them with a credit card and snorting the drug through a five-pound note.
The tabloid said the video was made at a West London recording studio during "a Mirror undercover investigation", but gave no further details.
The newspaper said Moss had taken a large amount of cocaine out of her handbag. Her boyfriend Pete Doherty, the musician whose alleged drug problems and brushes with the law have made headlines for months, was also present, the paper reported.
The Mirror said Moss had shouted obscenities when one of its reporters asked her for comment on the allegations outside a restaurant in New York, where she was attending the city's Fashion Week shows.
Moss won an apology and an undisclosed settlement from the Sunday Mirror in July over a story it ran in January alleging that she had collapsed into a cocaine-induced coma in Barcelona in June 2001.
On Sunday, Britain's News of the World reported that the model allegedly slipped away from her table next to that of former president Nelson Mandela at a banquet to go and snort cocaine.