Fashion Issues

Kate Moss smoking on the catwalk.

Marc Jacob design this years Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2011 collection in Paris where among the 67 modals was Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. His collection was inspired by Claridges hotel in London and Le Bristol in Paris and the type of people that came out of the elevators. These could have been anyone ranging from wives to maids and hookers. He represented this by using the two poles fashion and fetishisms with bags. The modals would arrive in elevators opened by the bellboys and walk the square runway before exiting on the stairs to the side of the elevators.


Naomi Campbell was styled in a sweater and skirt combo with a hotel doorman style cap. Kate Moss closed the show in typical rebellious fashion wearing a skimpy black short body suit with textured arms, smoking on a cigarette.

Although the fashion shows was a huge success there was a lot of controversy over Kate’s smoking. The date of the show 09/03/11 is also this year National non -smoking day. The first non-smoking day was held on Ash Wednesday in 1984 and now takes place on the second Wednesday of March. It is publicized as an annual health awareness day that is intended to help smokers that want to quit. Each year the campaign promotes a slogan and in 2010 it was “Break Free” but this years was a simple “Time To Quit”. With this and the new actions that the government is setting out to put into place, banning the display of tobacco for this stunt to be so public many people were outraged. Kate has taken a lot of criticism for smoking on the runway but I do not believe that is entirely her fault. The theatrics of the show are devised by a show producer and finalized with the designer. If Kate was told to smoke then the blame is not entirely hers.