Chanel will not be renewing Kate Moss’s contact once it expires next month, but this has nothing to do with recent reports of the model’s cocaine use, says a company spokeswoman.

“Kate Moss has a contract until the end of October,” says Julie Le Blevec, adding, “We are not planning to stop the advertisements before then.

“The contract was always going to end in October.”

Moss, 31, has been the face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle perfume since 2002.

On Tuesday she was dropped from clothing retailer H&M’s upcoming advertising campaign after Britain’s Daily Mirror published photos of her snorting cocaine.

The photos and Moss’s own admission of cocaine consumption have prompted London police to launch an investigation into the model’s activities.

“We have to look at the impact of this kind of behaviour on impressionable young people and if there is evidence, something should be done about it,” says Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Drug dealers, not users, are usually the ones who are investigated, but the policy is “adaptable to the impact of events,” says Blair, who was involved in the decision to investigate Moss.






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