{"id":1286,"date":"2017-05-04T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:31:54","slug":"fashion-and-smoking-celebrities-rebel-at-the-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2017\/05\/04\/fashion-and-smoking-celebrities-rebel-at-the-met-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion and smoking: Celebrities “rebel” at the MET Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fashion and the tobacco industry have a long and intertwined history<\/a>. Dated images of fashion models smoking while looking impossibly glamorous seem clich\u00e9d and old fashioned. Now, smoking is more a symbol of addiction, death, and corporate manipulation<\/a> – no longer is smoking shorthand for rebellion, coolness and aspiration.<\/p>\n

But, that didn\u2019t stop celebrities attending the biggest and most celebrated fashion event of the year, the MET gala, from trying to resurrect smoking\u2019s tarnished image<\/a>. The event, held in New York as a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute, receives global media coverage with lead stories in the news, gossip, fashion, and lifestyle pages. It also spawns thousands of social media posts highlighting both the celebrities in attendance and their avant-garde fashion choices.<\/p>\n

For example, the American fashion designer, Marc Jacobs, posted an image of himself smoking during the event in the \u201cgirls room\u201d with celebrities Courtney Love (herself a paid spokesperson for NJOY e-cigarettes<\/a>) and her daughter Frances Bean. The Marlboro cigarette packet can be clearly seen in Mr Jacobs\u2019 hand. Associating the Marlboro brand with exclusivity, celebrity, fashion, and rebellion \u2013 smoking is illegal inside public buildings in New York.<\/p>\n

No doubt Philip Morris is pleased to see its brand being held up as a fashion accessory. It sure beats being known for killing 2 out 3 of your best customers.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BTklWvjFUfI\/?taken-by=themarcjacobs<\/p>\n

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Smoking in the girls room #metgala @chardefrancesco @courtneylove @space_witch666<\/a><\/p>\n

A post shared by Marc Jacobs (@themarcjacobs) on May 1, 2017 at 6:31pm PDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Fashion and the tobacco industry have a long and intertwined history. Dated images of fashion models smoking while looking impossibly glamorous seem clich\u00e9d and old fashioned. Now, smoking is more a symbol of addiction, death, and corporate manipulation – no longer is smoking shorthand for rebellion, coolness and aspiration. But, that didn\u2019t stop celebrities attending […]<\/p>\n

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