• L.A. Times (free registration required), Friday, December 9, 2005 11:30 AM

Proving once more that you can't keep a pretty (and famous) face down, Kate Moss has picked up a string of new endorsement contracts and appears on the December cover of French Vogue.  The disgraced model, the object of a cocaine scandal just three months ago, has reemerged on the scene.  "If you use Kate Moss as a symbol of freedom, of transgression, you have to be honest," said Francois-Henri Pinault, who heads Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. "You can't use her image to convey those kinds of messages and then be surprised that she breaks the rules in her private life." Among her former endorsement contracts, one she never lost was Opium perfume, from Yves Saint Laurent. According to an AP story that runs in today's Los Angeles Times, Moss recently shot an ad campaign for well-known Italian designer Roberto Cavalli. She does indeed seem to have made a recovery--at least in terms of her career as a celebrity model.  The cover line on the December French Vogue:  "Scandalous Beauty."

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