who wudda thunk it?

Kate Moss Is Dismissed by H&M After a Furor Over Cocaine

By GUY TREBAY and ERIC WILSON

In a move with little precedent in the fashion industry, Kate Moss, one of the world's most recognizable models, was dismissed from a planned advertising campaign yesterday after executives said she had admitted to recently using cocaine.

H&M, Europe's largest clothing chain with 78 stores in the United States, had photographed Ms. Moss to promote the global introduction in November of a fashion collection designed by Stella McCartney. But a spokeswoman for H&M said the campaign was canceled after Ms. Moss told store executives in New York that a report of her drug use in a London newspaper was correct.

"If someone is going to be the face of H&M," the spokeswoman, Jennifer Uglialoro, said, "it is important they be healthy, wholesome and sound."

...They must not have ever actually seen a photo of her. Sexy, maybe if you're into skinny chicks - but wholesome? Get outta here. Hearing that she has done cocaine should be about as shocking as finding out that the Catholic Church is cracking down on gay priests.

In other news, there are a shocking - at least to me - number of nude pictures of Kate Moss on the web.