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The rise and fall of Kate Moss

The skeletal model's coke-fueled plunge from grace has exposed some ugly truths about the fashion industry -- not least its world-class hypocrisy.

As the 1980s melted into the 1990s, a new breed of supermodel started stalking the earth. Her emaciated frame made Twiggy's look chunky; she appeared permanently prepubescent; her sunken-eyed pallor made her look like a junkie. She was embodied by Kate Moss.

Moss and her band of wraiths not only drove insanely beautiful but fleshy models like Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland from magazine covers, they also slammed a heavy door on Nancy Reagan's 1980s-era "Just Say No" campaign against drug use. Their message was louder and prettier than the prudish abstinence-pushing project led by Reagan. It was accompanied by the melodies of the drug-fueled conflagration that was the Seattle music scene. They were waifs. They were heroin chic.

Now, 15 years later, in a set of circumstances that have exposed the hypocrisy and sanctimony of everyone involved, Moss and the fashion industry are becoming accidental and unwilling poster children for a new anti-drug message.

Two weeks ago, during New York City's Fashion Week, London's Daily Mirror newspaper splashed its cover with an image of Moss -- still a supermodel at 31, as well as mother to a 2-year-old daughter -- cutting lines of cocaine on a CD jewel box. "Cocaine Kate: Supermodel Kate Moss snorts line after line," blared the cover. An inset photo showed her leaning down to inhale the lines of white powder through a rolled up 5-pound note. Moss' career is now in sudden free fall. She has since had her contracts with H&M and Burberry canceled; her longtime relationship with Chanel will not continue past October; and she's been publicly spanked by employers like Rimmel and Gloria Vanderbilt.

News that models do blow is akin to news that rock stars have casual sex: not news at all. But the Moss humiliation was special. While photographers and models haunt the same VIP rooms, presumably sometimes partaking in illegal activities together, rarely do we see photographic evidence of cocaine getting sucked into recognizable nostrils. In this case, the Mirror -- perhaps smarting from the pricey loss of a libel suit Moss brought in response to its allegation that she had fallen into a drug-induced coma in 2001 -- had sent someone on an "undercover investigation."

The "investigation" captured not only grainy still images of Moss' inhalations, but a videotape of the debauched evening, which took place at a West London recording studio where her boyfriend's band Babyshambles was laying down tracks. The boyfriend, Pete Doherty, is the heroin- and cocaine-addicted musician, burglar and all-around yuck-bomb whom the model has been seeing off and on for months. The press has been full of dire warnings to Moss about the perils of her relationship with him, with Doherty's ex describing him as "evil. " Moss' press-happy friend Sadie Frost told reporters that Doherty is "not the sort of guy you'd wish for your best friend. He's very wild. Kate's got a history of partying hard. The idea of them together is terrible."

Of course, all this attention has made their romance all the more compelling, which in turn has lent the tale of Moss' druggy downfall at the hands of Doherty and his skuzzy friends an even more satisfying frisson of comeuppance. Thanks to Internet technology, the images and lurid reports of Moss' coked-out antics, including her twitchy nose-rubbing, conversational inanities, and chopping of 20 lines (she snorted five), have shot round the world in nanoseconds.

It's this readily available evidence, perhaps, that has made the usually lifestyle-blind fashion industry turn so violently on Moss. Though she has not made a public statement about her recent narcotic consumption, Moss has spent the week meeting with the companies she represents. Swedish clothing chain H&M had announced it would give her a second chance, but canceled her contract on Tuesday, citing customer complaints. Chanel, a company for which Moss has modeled since 2001, released a statement claiming that it will not renew her contract once her current cycle of ads is retired in October. And while Burberry's public statement was solicitous, pointing out that Moss has "worked successfully" with them over the years, and that she "has always been highly professional," they too brought their relationship with her to an end, a decision that will cost them a considerable amount of money, since they will have to reshoot an already finished ad campaign.

Now it's mostly a question of falling dominoes. Moss, who reportedly makes $9 million a year, will surely lose most, if not all, of her current gigs. Who will want to keep her on, when to do so would signal brazen public support of a woman whose drug use is now being investigated by Scotland Yard?

Of course, Moss' real error was in getting caught on tape, a situation that is certainly unfortunate for her, but just as inconvenient for fashion companies, now forced to place their favorite clotheshorse in the stocks, and to distance themselves from her by proclaiming their wide-eyed innocence.

What this drama has done is lay bare the ugly skeleton that holds up a fashion industry that for some time has prized hollow cheeks and vacant eyes, stunted, prepubescent frames, and jutting collar bones from which fabric drapes beautifully. In other words, the body that is appealing to designers -- and thus to consumers -- is a body that looks like it has been ravaged by drugs. In order to stay employed, models must maintain this shape; to maintain the shape they must do something besides eat right and exercise regularly. Whether it's cocaine or speed or heroin or caffeine or cigarettes or anorexia or bulimia or some combination of the above, most adult women cannot get bodies that look like Moss' healthily, because hers is not a healthy body.

On Thursday, a spokeswoman for cosmetics firm Rimmel announced that the company was "shocked and dismayed by the recent press allegations surrounding" Moss, and that it would reconsider its relationship with her. Earlier, the CEO for Gloria Vanderbilt denim had told the press, "We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss" again, and that "we weren't aware of any issues with Kate prior to this campaign. "

The fashion companies' professions of surprise are hard to believe. Would it be more embarrassing for them to admit they hired a model who they knew had done drugs than it is for them to admit to never having picked up a paper? Moss has spoken of her own drug use many times, and did a widely reported stint in rehab in 1998. She has denied heroin use, and often claimed she was clean, but in 2003 she gave an interview in which she said that dabbling was fine, but that an earlier period she'd spent immersed in drug use "wasn't a nice time."

Moss' record alone renders Gloria Vanderbilt's and Rimmel's assertions of naiveté ludicrous. And what about H&M's statement to the New York Times, that "If someone is going to be the face of H&M, it is important they be healthy, wholesome and sound"? The spokeswoman also told the Times that after feedback, "we decided we should distance ourselves from any kind of drug abuse."

Remember Capt. Renault's assertion to Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" that he is "shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here," just before the croupier hands him his winnings?

If it were important that the face of H&M be healthy, wholesome and sound, the company would have very few working models to choose from, and everyone -- both in and out of the fashion industry -- knows that.

This week, London Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair told the Mirror that they're pursuing an investigation of Moss' drug use because "We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior on impressionable young people." But measuring the impact of Moss and her behavior is long overdue. How many eating disorders have been launched by a fashion industry that put Moss' look -- no fat, no flesh, no physical sign that she has consumed nutrients -- on every billboard and runway? For more than a decade, awkward 15-year-olds have scanned the pages of fashion magazines, trying to figure out what they are expected to look like if they want to be considered attractive. And what they found was Moss and the consumptive figure she made popular.

In truth, the impression that Moss has made in the past two weeks has probably been one of the healthier ones in her history -- simply because this chapter of her life has made drug use and addiction look not like giggling fun for beautiful people, but like a habit that can be sad and grimy, and which can produce terrible personal and professional results. Those pictures of her were ugly. They looked sad. The rolled-up fiver was skanky, as was her outfit. This was not the glamourous Mediterranean bar-top bacchanal that some might fantasize about when they think about a model's hard-living lifestyle. This was a filthy room with gross people.

And her professional offloading certainly hasn't seemed like it's been fun. Reports had Moss in tears when she heard that Chanel would not be renewing with her. The industry that sent her to the stratosphere has cut her loose without much of a second thought. When cornered by reporters after the Mirror story first appeared, a distraught Moss told them to, "Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off! Just fuck off!" Her father, caught at his home in West Sussex, England, and shown the pictures of his daughter doing illegal drugs, said only, "It doesn't surprise me." A London Sun report today had Moss smoking crack, a drug that has no street glamour at all. The only good news, as reported in the gossip columns, is that she may have broken up with Doherty again.

But between her personal humiliation, professional tumble, declining economic prospects, soured romance, and dire image problems, Kate Moss -- avatar of 1990s heroin grunge -- has this week become a walking D.A.R.E. ad.

By Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister writes for Salon. She is the author of "Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women" (Free Press). Follow @rtraister on Twitter.

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Johnny Depp once again took the witness stand on Wednesday in the defamation trial of ex-wife Amber Heard, claiming that Heard took the story of former girlfriend Kate Moss falling down the stairs and made it "ugly. "

One of the most widely debated facts of the trial, which came after Depp sued Heard for $50 million, was that Depp once pushed his former girlfriend Moss down a staircase when they dated in the 1990s.

Heard mentioned the rumor with Moss at least twice in court, opening the door for Depp's legal team to call the supermodel to testify. On Wednesday, she testified that Depp never pushed her down any stairs. Instead, Moss said she slipped on some stairs in the rain while on vacation with Depp in Jamaica and Depp came to help her.

Johnny Depp on Wednesday testified that Amber Heard took the story of Kate Moss slipping on some stairs and turned it "ugly" as he addressed the rumor that he pushed Moss. Above, Moss is sworn in via video link at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 25, 2022. EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Depp later took the stand and was asked about the staircase incident as well. He once again recalled the incident in Jamaica as Moss had recalled it, and then said he told Heard about it.

"Miss Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident, all in her mind," Depp testified. "There was never a moment where I pushed Kate down any set of stairs, yet she's spewed this three times before.

WATCH: "Miss Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident, all in her mind," Depp testifies about the Kate Moss staircase incident.#JohnnyDeppVsAmberHeard @LawCrimeNetwork pic.twitter.com/G9QQSNHUJB

— Sierra Gillespie (@sierragillespie) May 25, 2022

"That's the whole story. But then the rumor of it, I had never heard a rumor of that before Miss Heard grabbed hold of it. It's like that, I'm sorry."

Debunking the rumor incited significant praise on social media for Moss, as Depp fans thanked her for speaking out.

The trial is in its sixth and final week and has seen a significant amount of accusations from both parties about alleged abuse and violence. Depp sued Heard for $50 million for defamation after she wrote an opinion piece with The Washington Post titled I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change.

While the article did not name ex-husband Depp, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor's legal team claimed that the article damaged his reputation and caused him to lose a number of projects.

Depp was also not the only one who had a past incident brought up in the trial. Heard also had an allegation resurface that she domestically abused her ex-partner, Tasya van Ree. Van Ree issued a statement in 2016 that Heard was wrongly accused, but unlike Moss coming forward to deny the accusation, van Ree was not called to be a witness.

The trial is coming to a close this week and closing arguments are expected on Friday. Heard countersued Depp for $100 million for nuisance.

Follow Newsweek's live blog for additional updates.

Update 5/25/22, 2:06 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information.

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Kate Moss, Uma Thurman - stars with an outstanding appearance

Some consider them beauties, while others are convinced that they are real ugly. The truth, as usual, does not exist, but this is no reason to look at them again.

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has an impressive figure and a lot of charm. And in 2007, readers of the men's magazine Maxim named her the most unsexy woman alive. And while girls admire Parker's character in Sex and the City, some dare to say that the star reminds them of a horse.

“Do I have big silicone breasts, Botox or big lips? No. Do I fit the ideals and standards of some of the men who write for men's publications? Probably no. Am I the most unsexy woman in the world? Cool! Pretty cruel. This upset my husband, because in such a rating his opinion should also be taken into account. Such condemnation on the basis of appearance, the recognition of unfitness, is madness. But what can I do? I guess it’s impossible to please all people, ”Parker herself commented on her“ title ”, who has repeatedly spoken out against plastic surgery and the general obsession with imposed beauty standards.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte is the daughter of actress and singer Jane Birkin and chansonnier Serge Gainsbourg. Many people still admire the angelic appearance of her mother, but dad did not like mirrors and considered himself like a reptile. Charlotte inherited traits from both parents. Some label her as “intellectual beauty”, others consider her insanely attractive, others feel sorry for her because Serge Gainsbourg’s genes turned out to be so strong.

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Roberts' nicknames have been transformed along with her transformation into a beautiful swan. Frog is one of the most harmless nicknames that the future "beauty" was awarded in high school. But as a high school student, Roberts blossomed and got the nickname "Hot Shorts" from the guys she drove crazy with her slender legs.

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Charlotte herself admitted that she doesn't like her face and figure, she doesn't like anything about herself at all. But Gainsbourg is calm about his appearance and gets upset only because of age-related changes: “I used to think that only beauties and handsome men suffer from old age, but I assure you - even people with such a banal appearance as mine, although I don’t I consider myself ugly, they also suffer!”

Lily Cole

British actress and model Lily Cole's doll face haunts many. Some admire her red hair, porcelain skin, fragility and childish features. To others, she resembles a doll from a horror movie. Maybe it's all about Lily's mysterious, as if distant look, alien, wide-set eyes and a combination of childish innocence with frightening mystery?

Kate Moss

No matter how the fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev calls Kate Moss (both “a freak from the train” and “the girl from the next door with a completely indistinct appearance”), from the lack of multi-million dollar contracts, lack of attention from men, she never suffered from fans and fans. She was accused of anorexia, called the icon of "heroin chic", and the tabloids constantly offer to find similarities between her photographs taken by the paparazzi and glossy pictures.

Kate Moss has imperfect facial features, in addition, she never hid that addiction to alcohol, smoking and parties is not good for appearance. But you can't drink away charisma. She is a supermodel, style icon and symbol of British chic.

Chloe Sevigny

Chloe Sevigny is an independent film star, a girl of marginal appearance, hooligan charisma, a fan of non-standard outfits. Chloe is not shy about explicit movie scenes, easily undresses in front of the camera and is not at all timid. For fans, she is attractive and sexy, unique and unique, for critics - repulsive, unfeminine, ridiculous...

In 2016, the publishing house Rizzoli, with the participation of the actress herself, published a book by Chloë Sevigny with her photographs, dedicated to the non-standard beauty and unusual style of the artist. “I am not a classic beauty and therefore I think that this book can serve as an inspiration for girls: it is not at all necessary to strive to be perfect,” Sevigny commented on the release of the album.

Lindsay Wixon

Like her British counterpart Lily Cole, American model Lindsay Wixon has a doll-like appearance that repels some and attracts others. Complicating the situation is a gap between the front teeth - the subject of an eternal dispute in a conversation about the attractiveness of a woman. Lindsey herself, who is one of the best models in the world, believes that beauty lies in "slight imperfection."

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman is a large girl: her height is over 180 cm, Uma has 42 feet. Add to this the non-standard facial features of the actress and slightly angular movements on the red carpet. Director Quentin Tarantino is crazy about Thurman, including her large feet. But the taste and color, as you know...

Uma herself treats her appearance wisely: “I never considered myself beautiful. But I always found some pleasure in it: in Hollywood there are stamped sex bombs around, and I don’t fit into the standards and that’s why I’m beautiful.

Devon Aoki

Devon Aoki is the shortest model in the world. And one of the most exotic. She has Japanese, German and British blood, and her face is covered with freckles. Devon is not a classic model and not a standard beauty. All this is enough for Aoki to evoke conflicting emotions, but few people remain indifferent.

Vanessa Paradis

Actress, singer, style icon, symbol of French chic, ex-wife of Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis is a fragile woman who made her flaws (a gap and a boyish figure) her features, giving her charm and childish charm. Meanwhile, evil critics, who always have something to complain about, attacked Vanessa with renewed vigor when Depp left her for classic Hollywood beauty Amber Heard, peremptorily noting: “I see why. ”

Paradis does not respond to criticism and does not advise striving for the ideal: “I am pleased that I have been known as a beauty and fashionista all my life. But I don't take it seriously. Now there are no strict beauty criteria left - you don't have to be perfect. You can be different from others and just forget that you don't like your nose, butt or legs. The main thing is to have light inside, and eyes to shine with happiness.”

Keira Knightley

An English rose, an example of aristocratic beauty, fragile and refined Keira Knightley does not at all resemble a porcelain figurine and the ideal of beauty. Someone does not like the massive lower jaw of the actress, which she also sticks out too often during especially dramatic scenes, someone calls her a “board” because of her boyish figure.

Knightley thinks that the main thing is that she has something special: “Look, everything in the film industry is tied to appearance, and I definitely know that I got a role in Pirates of the Caribbean because of the way I look. Many beautiful girls have applied for this role, so there must be something else in you. Some people find it attractive, while others find it disgusting."

Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank is a girl who "definitely has something". The actress has slightly rough facial features, which is why she is criticized by especially sophisticated connoisseurs of beauty and gets characteristic roles in the cinema (remember Hilary in "Boys Don't Cry", where she played a transgender, or "Million Baby", where she desperately boxed in the ring).

In an interview, Swank talks a lot about her hard work, self-confidence and strength of character, which regular training in the pool helped her temper. Hilary never dreamed of being beautiful: “I was 16 years old. I confess to you that it was not easy at that time to realize that I was no longer a girl, not a child, but a young woman. That I have to look and act in a certain way to please others in order to be successful. All this terribly unnerved me.

Lara Stone

A blonde with a gorgeous body and constantly on the lists of the sexiest and most desirable women, supermodel Lara Stone admitted in an interview that she cries when she reads comments about herself on the Internet: "I'm called scary all the time!" Her slightly cleft chin, wide nose and gap between her teeth are criticized. And someone did not like the magnificent breasts of the Dutch model.

“Because of my unusual appearance, they called me ugly. All these years, insecurity made me feel disgusting, but now I'm slowly starting to realize: if I look good in the photo, then maybe it's really not so bad? - one of the highest paid models in the world modestly doubts.

Tilda Swinton

No one treats Tilda Swinton with indifference. For some, Tilda is a goddess, a woman with an aristocratic appearance, unique style and powerful magnetism. Well, someone, at best, compares it with an alien or tries to find out what gender this incomprehensible creature is.

Tilda herself treats the ambiguous perception of others with humor: “I somehow get on a plane, people from the security service come up to me, take me to the inspection, and a man searches me. On the streets and in offices, people often turn to me: "Sir!". Probably, people simply cannot imagine that with such an appearance I can be a woman. In my youth, I had to play men. People even began to be interested in my sexual orientation. To these questions I always answered that my orientation is just sexual.”

Talia Barnett (FKA twigs)

Actor Robert Pattinson's girlfriends, as they say, "for an amateur". At first, some of his fans asked what he found in his colleague in the Twilight saga, Kristen Stewart, and later his other passion, singer Talia Barnett, known under the pseudonym FKA twigs, also got it. Thalia has an exotic appearance, inherited from her Jamaican father and mother's Spanish ancestors, and a very unusual style and manner of execution.

Starting dating Pattinson, Barnett began to choke under a flurry of criticism. “I am shocked at the number of racist comments that have appeared on my account lately. I do not accept this either in real life or online. It's cruel. No matter what I sing, no matter how I dance, they don’t care - I will never prove to them that I’m not a monkey, ”the girl was upset.

Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne is not a beauty, but she is self-confident and knows how to present herself. Kara has probably already lost count of her multi-million dollar contracts with fashion brands herself. Wherever she goes, she is the center of attention. Delevingne is not at all worried about the fact that she is not the owner of ideal facial features. Unless she would like her figure to be more feminine and sexy.

Julia Roberts

The famous "beauty" Julia Roberts does not seem to everyone worthy of the main role in the famous film by Garry Marshall, where she conquered the hero of Richard Gere. Julia has a dazzling smile! But whether she has too big a mouth and sharp features, critics do not appease. Everything is compensated by the sea of ​​charm and large, expressive eyes.

“I always thought I was the boy type of girl. For example, I have never been included in the "Five Sexiest Actresses in Bikinis" rating. And, frankly, it’s even good, ”says Roberts.

Björk

Due to her exotic appearance and no less exotic way of dressing and behaving, singer Björk resembles an alien, an Icelandic elf, a Chinese doll. But for fans, she is a goddess of amazing beauty. Björk does not care about the opinions of the haters: “I don’t like myself only when I’m tired. If you show me two pictures, one of which makes me look ugly and the other looks tired, I will only worry about the last one.”

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You don't like her? And the men like it

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they don't like it either. I know the taste of men. And of the girls I consider Vodianova ugly.

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Fraya Baga Errikssen is Karl Lagerfeld's favorite, she is by far the most paid. Giselle is really nasty. clips, Lagerfeld has a specific taste, for him you have to be dead, tomboyish, very tall. The face must be such that another face can be drawn on it. he clearly would not like the type of Cindy Crawford. Yes, and models should not be beautiful, this is the lot of actresses.

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