My Fashion Life

It’s been said and said again how remarkable Kate Moss’ comeback has been since her cocaine shame. But being voted one of the world’s best dressed women by Vanity Fair has got to be the icing on the cake. It’s unbelievable to think that only less than a year ago it was thought that her career would be over.

32yr old Kate who has been a working model since the age of 14 has proved it will take more than a drug scandal to force her out of the industry. Kate’s not going anywhere until she’s ready……

:: Helena Christensen admits taking cannabis [all headline news]

:: Jean Muir donates over 18,000 pieces to The National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh [BBC news]

:: Alexander McQueen awarded man of fashion by The Academy of Art University in San Francisco [toronto Fashion Monitor ]

::Britney Spears hoping to launch baby fashion line [music rooms]

:: Hilifiger says Axl was “rude and obnoxious” [blabbermouth]

:: Naomi Campbell puts her N.Y apartment on sale for $5.25m [guardian]

Just when you thought Pete Doherty couldn’t be any fouler….he manages to exceed all expectations. Drug addict Doherty has given his record label Rough trade, no choice but to give him the boot, after injecting himself with heroin after a gig in Berlin, then squirting a syringe full of his blood over two MTV cameramen.

On off girlfriend Kate Moss summoned the musician to her home to tell him exactly what she thought of his irresponsible behaviour but couldn’t find the words and gave him a beating instead.

Doherty said of his encounter with Moss….

“She was angry about the blood-spraying thing. She beat the crap out of me. She laid into me punching and kicking.

“I’m alright, but she hurt my finger. I couldn’t do anything back, because she’s a girl.”

The media is having a field day exposing various celebrities and their drug use. Back on the hit list is Kate Moss alongside Naomi Campbell. According to model booker Gavin Maselle who spoke exclusively to the Sun, Naomi and Kate took a huge amount of drugs while meeting Nelson Mandela in South Africa in February 1998.

He tells stories of their drug sessions, lesbian romps, his time in the shower with Kate and how Naomi is “downright rude”.

We all ended up lying on Naomi’s bed. Naomi was being very dramatic. She would go into the bathroom, snort, come out and change into this fabulous Pucci kaftan and rant and rave about her fabulous life.

Kate spent a night of lust with the American model on the same trip, Gavin revealed.

The pair snorted line after line of cocaine before slipping between the sheets of the king-sized bed in Kate’s hotel suite.

He’s also exposed Kate as a drug smuggler telling how she smuggled ecstasy, cocaine and the date-rape drug Rohypnol in a Faberge egg…..

Gavin said: “She travelled the world with that egg.” Kate flew to Cuba the next day with it full of ecstasy and Rohypnol.

[The Sun]

:: John Campbell Crawford Owner of new Zealand label Insidious Fix, has been charged with cultivating cannabis and allowing a premises to be used for the purpose of cannabis cultivation.

:: Fifteen never before seen pictures of Lady Diana have been unveiled and are on display at Kensington palace. Taken by Mario Testino for Vanity fair the pictures were the last official portraits taken of Diana before she died.

“Diana, Princess of Wales by Mario Testino” will run at the Kensington Palace state apartments from 24 November 2005 until spring 2007.

Testino said he hoped the “light celebration of her life” would reflect his “respect and admiration” for the princess.

:: Furious at being ripped off Victoria Beckham has called in the Trading standards, after discovering cheap versions of her exclusive �120 VB range of jeans for Rocawear being sold.

A source said:” Victoria feels she is missing out on business. The fake jeans are much cheaper but they are also poor quality. So the bootleggers are also sullying her reputation of her brand.”

:: Artist Stella Vine has created a series of paintings inspired by the fall of Kate Moss. Entitled �The Beautiful and the Damned�.

one of her pictures shows the model looking stressed and clutching a cigarette, her face melting, with the slogan: �Holy water cannot help you now.�

Italian Model Mariacarla Boscono has been gaining alot of press over the past couple of days for being Kate Moss’ replacement for the H&M collection designed by Stella McCartney. Kate lost the contract after being photographed allegedly snorting cocaine.

Boscono who has previously worked for Givenchy and Roberto Cavalli will only feature in the TV commercials. All posters and newspaper adverts for the collection will feature no model, instead the clothing chain has opted to use a graphical solution. The collection will go on sale in over 400 stores on November 10.

[Forbes]

Just as Kate thought she would make it through the storm that is her life right now, H&M Europe�s largest clothing chain, have confirmed they will not be standing by the model as previously claimed. The high street chain has dropped Kate as the face of Stella McCartney’s new line due to be launched on the 10th of November.

Although the model expressed her deep regret and claimed she had dumped Doherty (again), it appears H&M just couldn’t continue its work with her and in a statement the chain said

“H&M will cancel the planned advertising campaign with model Kate Moss.
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