Kate Moss Returns To Burberry

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Kate Moss has become the new face of Burberry - nine months after bosses axed her.

The British fashion house quickly distanced itself from the sView the profile for Kate Moss on Celebrity Spotlightupermodel last year, after pictures apparently showing her snorting cocaine were published.

Moss has now been reunited with Burberry and will front the 2006 autumn/winter campaign for label.

The advertisement, shot by Mario Testino, shows the catwalk beauty dressed in a white lace trench coat standing defiantly in front of fellow models Stella Tenant, Otis and Issac Ferry on a rooftop.

Since Moss was welcomed back into the fashion world after spending time in a drug rehabilitation centre, anti-drug campaigners have been critical about the industry's willingness to quickly forgive the shamed model.

Peter Stoker, director of the Drug Prevention Alliance, told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: ""Burberry could have publicly said that what Kate Moss did had influenced an awful people and she should straighten up her act, whereas instead they're trivialising the impact of drug use."

Burberry was not the only company to cancel planned projects with the supermodel following the cocaine scandal. H+M and Roberto Cavalli both ditched Moss, sending her career into freefall.

However, Burberry, famous for its check motif, was careful not to sever all ties with the model, and she was invited to their 150th birthday celebration earlier this year.

A spokesman said at the time: "Kate is part of the Burberry family and it is only natural that she should be here."

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