The photographer Patrick Demarchelier believes that the claims are 'blown up out of all proportion. 'Most of the girls you work with are not taking drugs,' agrees Brana Wolf, fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar.

People were not doing drugs in the make-up room.' 'I experimented with drugs and alcohol at school but not when I started modelling. 'Maybe it's me being naive,' Christy Turlington says. 'I hear rumours but I've never seen it,' Cindy Crawford says. Many supers claim that they've never even seen drug-use in the fashion industry. But can Campbell be blamed for denying drug use? How was she expected to respond to Barbara Walters's probing? Not class A – especially heroin after everything that happened to Davide.' This cool, coy attitude is much more in tune with the public attitude to drugs than Naomi's categorical 'no'. When she was interviewed for a Channel 4 documentary in 1998, David Bailey's Models Close-Up (for which I wrote the script), she said, 'I don't do any more drugs than anyone else. Kate Moss was a major part of the Davide Sorrenti scene. Magazines will talk shit about you but they'll still book you.' If you give a 15-year-old thousands of dollars, she's going to buy lots of shoes, clothes – whatever she is into at the time.

'My habit became a full-time job', says King. She blames the fashion industry for its don't-ask-don't-tell policy. King was essentially caught in the act and had to bear her soul or kiss her career a not-so-fond farewell. It makes me sick, so sick, that's what they wanted.' James King says of those years, 'I looked so skinny, with black circles under my eyes. Heroin didn't have a real fashion moment until Grunge in 1993, when a young Kate Moss, photographed by Corinne Day for UK Vogue, became the face of 'Heroin Chic'. I just thought that was the way things worked.

The editor, the photographer, everybody was smoking or shooting drugs, so it was natural for me.

King, now an actress, was 14 when she was first offered heroin on a fashion shoot. Sorrenti's death blew the lid off fashion's affair with Class-A narcotics, and is an accurate snapshot of the pressures facing teenage models in fashion. His girlfriend at the time was the teenage model James King, and his model brother Mario was dating Kate Moss. The death of the 20-year-old photographer Davide Sorrenti from a heroin overdose in 1997 brought the industry's catnip out of the powder room. Frankly, anybody naive enough to believe that a supermodel was never offered drugs – in an industry that operates in a blizzard of cocaine – deserves to be left in blissful ignorance.ĭrugs and fashion are old friends: co-dependents you could say. The Mirror claims that Naomi 'misled the public' when she told Paris Match, 'I never take stimulants or tranquillisers', then told the US TV chat-show host Barbara Walters that she'd never been offered drugs.

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