Fashion Anonymous

Newflash: Models take drugs. What strikes me about this whole Kate Moss story is that she's only 31. Not that she looks any older, but she's just been around for so long. If I thought about her at all, which I didn't, I would have thought that she was at least 40 by now. I'm not sure that makes sense. Anyway, everyone in fashion does it. Hypocrites.

"They pick on Kate, but, hello, look around, it's everywhere," said Joe Zee, the editor in chief of Vitals, the high-end shopping magazine owned by Fairchild Publications, which announced this week it would cease publication. In a previous incarnation, as the fashion director of W, Mr. Zee worked with people from the top echelons of talent in the business. And drug use, he said, was rampant, in particular among models, many of whom enter the business straight out of middle school, too young by law to drink or to buy cigarettes and yet surrounded by adults proffering joints or snorts or Champagne splits at 9 a.m.