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An interesting observation in a Salon.com article about the recent Kate Moss cocaine fiasco (a British tabloid published front-page photos of Moss snorting cocaine, which led to Moss getting fired from some of her most high-profile contracts, including Burberry and H&M):

What this drama has done is lay bare the ugly skeleton that holds up a fashion industry that for some time has prized hollow cheeks and vacant eyes, stunted, prepubescent frames, and jutting collar bones from which fabric drapes beautifully. In other words, the body that is appealing to designers — and thus to consumers — is a body that looks like it has been ravaged by drugs. In order to stay employed, models must maintain this shape; to maintain the shape they must do something besides eat right and exercise regularly. Whether it’s cocaine or speed or heroin or caffeine or cigarettes or anorexia or bulimia or some combination of the above, most adult women cannot get bodies that look like Moss’ healthily, because hers is not a healthy body.

(“The rise and fall of Kate Moss” - 09/23/05)