Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
I am shocked, just shocked. Fashion models are now being confused with role models.
When I saw the Daily Mirror photos of Kate Moss doing lines, my initial reaction was, “Well, that photographer’s career is going very well.” I've known for years--along with the rest of the world--that Kate Moss, waif of yesterday, sexy model, fashion designer muse did drugs. Indeed, she did drugs much the way people in just about every other business do drugs: not on the front page of a tabloid.
How we got from Kate Moss doing cocaine in print to Kate Moss being dropped by companies whose image issues dictate that they make her the smirch girl for their Plus-Size case of hypocrisy, well, I just don’t know. Somebody rolled back the clock? Clearly we’ve entered a time warp that has landed us in a wacky period piece circa 1955.
A spokesman for the cosmetics firm Rimmel said, "Rimmel London is shocked and dismayed by the recent press allegations surrounding Kate Moss's behaviour. We are currently reviewing her contract."
Translation: We have now bypassed the cultural moment in which the emperor has no clothes and entered a spin cycle that could confound Rod Serling. Apparently we are all spokespeople now.
You'd think somebody would give the woman points for being well turned out. She was wearing black, that's appropriately glam for doing lines, isn't it?
Was I the only one who found it hilarious that fashion designer Helga Vjornson blamed the media for Moss’s loss of millions of dollars’ worth of work. The media? The media is doing what it’s always done. The Daily Mirror isn’t trying to moralize.
Somebody needs to pave the runways with copies of Harry Frankfurt’s little book On Bullshit—surely it’s the perfect accessory for fall. What I really want to know is why the Mirror published the photos at this point in time.
So:
Dear Burberry, Chanel, and H&M (and possibly Christian Dior, Rimmel and H Stern),
I find your brand of hypocrisy so very tacky.
When I saw the Daily Mirror photos of Kate Moss doing lines, my initial reaction was, “Well, that photographer’s career is going very well.” I've known for years--along with the rest of the world--that Kate Moss, waif of yesterday, sexy model, fashion designer muse did drugs. Indeed, she did drugs much the way people in just about every other business do drugs: not on the front page of a tabloid.
How we got from Kate Moss doing cocaine in print to Kate Moss being dropped by companies whose image issues dictate that they make her the smirch girl for their Plus-Size case of hypocrisy, well, I just don’t know. Somebody rolled back the clock? Clearly we’ve entered a time warp that has landed us in a wacky period piece circa 1955.
A spokesman for the cosmetics firm Rimmel said, "Rimmel London is shocked and dismayed by the recent press allegations surrounding Kate Moss's behaviour. We are currently reviewing her contract."
Translation: We have now bypassed the cultural moment in which the emperor has no clothes and entered a spin cycle that could confound Rod Serling. Apparently we are all spokespeople now.
You'd think somebody would give the woman points for being well turned out. She was wearing black, that's appropriately glam for doing lines, isn't it?
Was I the only one who found it hilarious that fashion designer Helga Vjornson blamed the media for Moss’s loss of millions of dollars’ worth of work. The media? The media is doing what it’s always done. The Daily Mirror isn’t trying to moralize.
Somebody needs to pave the runways with copies of Harry Frankfurt’s little book On Bullshit—surely it’s the perfect accessory for fall. What I really want to know is why the Mirror published the photos at this point in time.
So:
Dear Burberry, Chanel, and H&M (and possibly Christian Dior, Rimmel and H Stern),
I find your brand of hypocrisy so very tacky.
posted by Elizabeth Manus at 11:32 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home