HEROIN CHIC >>

Another top British model, Tamara Czartoryski, told The Mail On Sunday newspaper: ‘One model

agency I was with had a booker who was giving coke to the models every day. She offered it to all the

girls and most of them took it.

“Cocaine suppresses your appetite and boosts your confidence. I felt and knew I needed it to get through the

jobs I was doing.”

Czartoryski said she had since kicked the habit and signed up with an agency with a strict no-drugs

policy. Fashion has long flirted with drug imagery . Moss shot to fame as a 14 year old n the mid-’90s

as the icon of heroin chic, a fashion style that replaced Amazonian super models on the catwalk with

emaciated waifs. She has modelled for a Dior perfume called Addict, a Yves Saint Laurent scent called

Opium and for Calvin Klein, which produced a fragrance called CNights that featured a dress made of

razor blades and a catwalk strewn with white powder. One insider told the Independent that given

this, it was unfair to single out Moss for condemnation.

them and they were sent home. Another time I was modelling at a top London department store.

There was a curtain at the back where some of the clothes were being kept and that was where every-

one went to do their drugs.

Clarkson claims she even saw the drug being

handed around on silver platters at a previous

year’s London Fashion Week event. I walked

into the dressing room and there were three

girls huddled over a silver tray covered with

cocaine. They were so hammered the stylists

could barely work with them and they were

sent home. The enormous pressures to stay

thin in the industry force many models to take

a substance well known for suppressing ap-

petite.In a London department store,there was

a curtain at the back where some of the clothes

were being kept and that was where everyone

went to do their drugs. “There are some hor-

rible people willing to stoop to any level to exploit

beautiful young women. The wrong people use

and abuse women, and they introduce drugs as a

means of control,” he said

What industry insiders are gushing about now

is just how widespread cocaine use really is

behind the velvet drapes of the world’s most

elite catwalks and studios.

For decades, it was the elephant in the room

that insiders were too cool to draw attention

to. But now, it seems, tut-tutting about drug

use in fashion circles is the new black.“Every

insider already knows cocaine fuels the interna-

tional fashion industry at every level, from glamor-

ous catwalk to exotic photo shoot,” reported The

Independent newspaper this week. It quoted

one fashion insider as saying: Of course models

take cocaine. So do designers. And hairdress-

ers, particularly. It is there at fashion shows,

but it is quite covert. If you’re looking for a

blizzard of cocaine, go on a photo shoot. That’s

when it really happens. Another was quoted

as saying: “Backstage, at a shoot, just waiting

around, people use coke like others drink coffee.”

Donald MacIntyre, a reporter who went un-

dercover to write a tell-all book on drug use in

the fashion industry, told the paper: “I talked to

lots of models who were relying on cocaine simply

to keep the weight off. It is a brutal, brutal trade.”

Model agent Jonathan Phang, a judge on the

reality series Britain’s Next Top Model, told the

paper that it was hard for models ‘spotted’ in

their teens to know whom to trust.

“There are some horrible people willing to stoop to

any level to exploit beautiful young women. The

wrong people use and abuse women, and they

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introduce drugs as a means of control,” he said.

Top British model Lucy Clarkson told The

People magazine: ‘There are hundreds more

girls like Kate Moss. I’ve seen the terrible truth

for myself.The 23-year-old has modelled for

British designers Vivienne Westwood, Jasper

Conran and Alexander McQueen.

She claims she regularly witnesses orgies

at the backstage parties that follow catwalk

shows like those at the London Fashion Week

last week.

Girls would be so off their faces on cocaine

and champagne on an empty stomach that

by the time it came to the after-parties, they

would do anything for more drugs, she told

the magazine.They would start snogging each

other because they knew that would get the

men going to score more drugs.

“The main reason they all do coke is to stay thin - I

even tried it once but I hated it. It’s literally thrust

upon you wherever you go.”

COCAINE ON A SILVER PLATTER >>

Clarkson says she succumbed instead to the

eating disorder bulimia - which ironically lead

to her getting more work.At a fashion show,

there is a clothes rail with your picture on it

full of the outfits you will be wearing. If any

of them doesn’t fit you then you are literally

sent home. “The humiliation is so great that girls

will do anything to make sure they can get into the

clothes,” she said.

Top British model Lucy Clarkson told The

People magazine: ‘There are hundreds more

girls like Kate Moss. I’ve seen the terrible truth

for myself.

The 23-year-old has modelled for British

designers Vivienne Westwood, Jasper Conran

and Alexander McQueen.

She claims she regularly witnesses orgies

at the backstage parties that follow catwalk

shows like those at the London Fashion Week

last week.

“Girls would be so off their faces on cocaine and

champagne on an empty stomach that by the

time it came to the after-parties, they would do

anything for more drugs,” she told the magazine.

They would start snogging each other because

they knew that would get the men going to

score more drugs.”

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SCAPEGOATS >> Model behavior

KATE MOSS

>> Pictures of her allegedly snorting cocaine

splashed across the Daily Mirror newspaper

last week.

NAOMI CAMPBELL

>> Admitted earlier this year that rumours of

her violent outbursts were true and had been

fuelled by her heavy cocaine use in the ‘90s.

JANICE DICKINSON

>> Still touting herself as the world’s first su-

permodel, she took the fashion world by storm

in the ‘70s and she fell from favour because of

her twin addictions to cocaine and alcohol. .

DONATELLA VERSACE

>> The designer announced earlier this year

that she had kicked the cocaine habit after 18

years.

SOPHIE ANDERTON

>> Shot to fame as the model in a high-profile

British lingerie campaign before making more

headlines for admitting to cocaine addiction

and for the domestic abuse allegations she

made against star footballer boyfriend

GIA CARANGI

>> Graced the covers of the world’s top fashion

magazines in the ‘70s but was blacklisted in

the ‘80s because of obvious track marks on her

arms from heroin use. Descended into prosti-

tution and because the first American woman

to die from Aids in 1986.

full stomach >>30% of models pop some sort of amphetmine to keep up with their false hectic glamorous lifestyle. Internal bleeding is a common occurence with repetitive use.

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