Kate Moss, supermodel, mom, poster-child for the waif look is presumably giving PR folks across the fashion industry sleepless nights.
If you’re following the story, Moss was recently photographed dividing lines of cocaine in a dressing room, then enjoying a few of them herself. I don’t know for whose coin she was working, or even if she was on the job, but her clients — department store chain Hennes & Mauritz, and fashion houses Burberry’s, Chanel, Dior and Vanderbilt — have dropped her. She will no longer represent them, and that’s a big chunk of Moss’ £7 million salary gone. At 31, Moss is no “new face”, as they say, and, anyway, the heroin chic look is out.
Friend and fellow MarComBlog Contributor Neville Hobson suggests on his Nevon blog that this presents a PR dilemma for high profile companies: what do you do when your A-list celebrity star self-destructs in public?
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