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The model in the pictures was Kate Moss. And of the many ways to calculate the velocity of her professional free fall, following publication by a London tabloid of a grainy video image said to depict her snorting cocaine at a London recording studio, the Dior ad comes as a revelation.

While a number of Ms. Moss’s corporate clients issued pious antidrug statements and well-judged disavowals as they politely cashiered her, Dior took the kind of tack one has come to expect from an industry where, as in the old Soviet Union, inconvenient truth is subject to revision. What Dior did in the double-page pictorials that ran this week in international newspapers was simple. Replica Handbags kept the boots and the bag and lost the girl.

There is no fashion Kremlin, of course, to issue fatal edicts. Yet the fashion industry has a long history of isolating rogues and banishing those who offend its codes to professional Siberia. And what the Dior ad suggested was that Kate Moss - the 31-year-old supermodel; the fashion symbol, as proclaimed by the glossies and by the Council of Fashion Designers of America; the creative inspiration for countless designers; the businesswoman for whose services modeling agencies collected an estimated $1.5 million in fees in the last year - has been disappeared.

Her offense was not so much her cocaine use (although Scotland Yard, which takes an intolerant view of traffic in what in Britain are termed Class A drugs, is investigating the model) as her hubris. Drugs of all Louis Vuitton Handbags, but especially cocaine, are commonplace in fashion. There are stylists and hair and makeup artists who consume coke by the shovel load.

There is a world-famous photographer who draws his inspiration from daily deliveries of high-quality pot rolled into fat spliffs. There are designers who keep “muses” with good drug connections on salary. There are models, and not a few of them, who snort cocaine discreetly from lipstick shaped “bullets” and who understand that “Do I smell Chanel?” is backstage code for “Got coke?”

That someone always has cocaine is hardly destined to shock or offend most people in fashion, where the unwritten rule is do as you like, but not on film. “If you don’t see Cartier Handbags everywhere in fashion,” the seasoned stylist George Cortina said before the Gucci show on Wednesday, “you’re wearing a blindfold.”

The amateur home sex video that seems to have made the career of Paris Hilton would have ended that of any reputable model, for the obvious reason that models are not meant to be much more than beautiful but neutral screens on which to project the allure of a new eyeliner or a bar of soap.

“It’s always been much more widespread than anyone says, but Chanel Handbags gets swept under the rug,” said Long Nguyen, the editor of Flaunt magazine. “We all know that fashion never looks under the rug, because it’s not pretty there.”

Mr. Nguyen’s metaphor, however, is not altogether accurate, since in many forms the ugliness of addiction has been in full view all along. For the half decade before the designer Donatella Versace went public with disclosures of severe cocaine addiction and sought rehabilitation last year, she presented the fashion world with a spectacle at once scarily compelling and morally perplexing.

Teetering down the runway twice a year in high heels at the end of each show, Ms. Versace looked like someone who had embarked on a course of highly public disintegration. The erosion affected even the features of her face. That the company she headed was disintegrating in parallel was lost on few in the audience or the business.

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Who cares? What matters is that she was expressing herself in Fashion Esperanto, the improvisatory, helium-giddy and nowadays endangered dialect of her tribe. There was a time in what one might call the precorporate era when Fashion Esperanto was in constant use. Approval blazed through the language in superlatives. Nothing halfway nice could be described as less than genius! Disapproval was expressed in gutturals like “Ugg!”

Gerunds were used more promiscuously than in a Henry Green novel: Loving! Boring! J’adoring! Ordinary sentence structure was treated as a joke. Articles fell into nearly total disuse. Foreign languages were ransacked for anything linguistically shiny. Pronouns took a drubbing. Verbs became nouns.

“Replica Handbags had all the atmosphere of a specialized-machine-tool trade fair,” Haruki Murakami wrote in “Norwegian Wood,” describing the Ami Hostel, a place where the narrator’s girlfriend is ensconced. Except that the hostel was a mental hospital, Mr. Murakami could have been describing the scene at any fashion show. Come to think of it - well, never mind. “People with a strong interest in a limited field came together in a limited spot and exchanged information understood only by themselves,” he wrote.

The point is that Fashion Esperanto has been on the way out. One hesitates to point a finger of blame at Robert Polet, the former Unilever executive who now runs the Gucci Group. Fashion was becoming inexorably corporate long before Mr. Polet was hired away from the food giant to apply the lessons of selling goods with a limited shelf life to those, like handbags, which must be made to seem as if they could spoil.

With the exception of designers like John Galliano - whose eccentricities now seem as contrived for public consumption as the antics of Cantinflas, the legendary Mexican movie clown, to whom he bears more than a passing resemblance - most people in the business are now able to talk in ways that translate well for the boardroom.

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And it does not pay to underestimate how much fashion is a game played by misfits, people who, as the designer Narciso Rodriguez has remarked, probably would not make it in a lot of other fields. This is not because they lack the intelligence or skills or cunning or endurance. For designers, who face the reality that most of them toil in obscurity for unimpressive salaries, the latitude for self-expression in fashion remain seductively liberal.

Unlike medicine, say, one can become a fashion professional just by claiming it is so. If Valentino Handbags works, you can wear a powdered ponytail and starched collar that lends you a resemblance to a bobble-head doll (the designer Karl Lagerfeld) or mince around wearing a miniature clown hat (Anna Piaggia of Italian Vogue) or else plant what looks like the spring molt from a parrot jungle on your head (Isabella Blow, the fashion director of Tatler) and stand around waiting for the paparazzi flashbulbs to pop.

In fashion you can be the ugly duckling from high school and yet find people who will pay you good money to embody their off-kilter vision (Lisette Jansen, the young Dutchwoman whose nom de mannequin is Querelle). You can start out in Porterville, Calif., and wind up one day as a darling of Paris, creating complex, sexy shrouds from pleated jersey, being found sexy and compelling yourself because of, not despite, ironing your hair and wearing sleeveless muscle Versace Handbags and combat fatigues over high-heeled platform boots (the designer Rick Owens).

“Sometimes the whole thing cracks me up, it’s so absurd,” Mr. Owens said on Sunday evening as his assistants snacked on persimmon cookies his mother made from fruit picked from a backyard tree in California. “I didn’t necessarily expect a big welcome wagon from fashion, but people have actually been generous and haven’t slagged me off too much.” These people exist, of course. In Fashion Esperanto they’re known as “negatinas.”

But as Mr. Owens said, “I can’t think of too many other fields where you can learn all of this on the job.”

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