While Moss lost contracts with H&M, Chanel, Gloria Vanderbilt and Burberry following the release of the incriminating photos, the 32-year-old beauty is now the face of a record 14 brands including Versace, Louis Vuitton, and Virgin Mobile. Ironically, the cocaine scandal seems to be actually working in Moss’s favor, as she is expected to double her earnings from last year.
Is that right? What kind of example is Kate Moss setting? More importantly what does this say about the corporations who choose to work with Moss despite her questionable drug habit?
It is no secret, sex sells and apparently these days so does anything remotely controversial. For whatever reason societies all over the world are fascinated by scandal and anything taboo. From the wild and crazy antics of the pole dancing gold digger Anna Nicole Smith (God rest her soul) to crotch flashing pop star and mother of two Britney Spears , what most people would deem to be career threatening public disasters actually end up being PR success stories. Embarrassing moments for famous people turn
into the next days headlines. The fact that major news networks like Fox News took time away from covering the war in Iraq to bring the Britney Spears flashing incident to the attention of the American public is somewhat pathetic.
For most newspapers the front page is reserved for the most important newsworthy stories and headlines of the day. The New York Post (pictured here) is the fifth largest newspaper in the United States and yet even this well known publication is covering a story about an anorexic movie star, a hotel heiress and a burnt out pop star and their non-stop partying ways while the news on Iraq is put on the back burner. Who would have thought that an article with the title "Bimbo Summit" would take precedence over the state of our nation?
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Very good point: What kind of example is Kate Moss setting? And what does this say about the corporations who choose to work with Moss?
I'm gonna have to say that my favorite line was definitely "...the pole dancing gold digger Anna Nicole Smith (God rest her soul)."
Do you think Brittany can come back from this one? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17197876/
The companies that chose to continue working with Kate despite the drug scandal did so because they have known Kate for a huge chunk of her career (which spans about 2 decades) and she is very close friends with many of them, they are like family. So of course they know who she really is as a person and forgive her for being human and making mistakes. That is why they still supported her.
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