Moss comes back as a cover girl

By David Rose
Cocaine controversy or not, fashionable magazines can’t get enough of her
JUST days after leaving an American rehabilitation clinic, Kate Moss is back in a familiar setting — looking seductive on the front cover of a magazine.

The model appears to be making an eye-catching comeback after the drug scandal that saw her shamed and stripped of her most lucrative contracts.

The American magazine Vanity Fair has chosen to feature a fashion shoot of her on its cover only seven weeks after photographs were published allegedly showing her taking cocaine. Several fashion houses subsequently cancelled contracts with Moss, who fled to the US to recuperate.

She left the Meadows Clinic in Arizona last week after undergoing a month of treatment at a cost of $4,000 (£2,250) a night. Vanity Fair is using previously unpublished photographs of her that were taken last year for the cover of its December issue.

The cover shows Moss, 31, wearing a charcoal Chloé camisole, with a headline asking: “Kate Moss, Can She Come Back?”

Another photograph taken in 2004 shows the Croydon-born model in black underwear, sharing a bed with two kittens. Inside the magazine, another 11 pages are devoted to her story.

Moss has been spending time with friends in America before returning to work but is said to already have jobs lined up in Los Angeles, Paris and New York over the next month.

She checked into the clinic at the end of September, after seeing her career fall apart after pictures from a video taken of her allegedly snorting five lines of cocaine in 45 minutes were published in a newspaper.

She lost her contracts with the fashion chains H&M and Burberry, and Chanel said that it would not be extending her contract. She can expect to lose about £200,000 for every contract cancelled. But other fashion companies, including Rimmel and Dior, publicly supported her after she released a statement pledging to sort out her problems.

Further stories of Moss’s alleged involvement in sex parties emerged in the days that followed. A spokeswoman for Vanity Fair insisted yesterday that the magazine had chosen to feature Moss because she was “topical”. A statement said: “She is interesting and in the news.”

She also features on the front cover of another magazine, W, this month and a prominent editorial offers backing for efforts to restart her career. Dennis Freedman, the creative director of W, said that it had been a “natural decision for the New York-based publication to support the model”.

Moss, who is reported to have dumped her boyfriend Pete Doherty, the singer and self-confessed crack and heroin addict, said that she had “various personal issues” that she needed to address.

The model is understood to be letting her home in St John’s Wood, North London, and plans to move to a Gloucestershire farmhouse with her three-year-old daughter, Lila Grace. She is also said to have hired two minders to keep her away from drug dealers and Doherty’s circle of friends.