Today smoking is fashion in all word?

 Today smoking is fashion in all word?

The avant-garde plan group As Four wowed journalists, outlets and photographers at its high-octane trend exhibit Saturday, with carnivalesque jackets, poof-ball pants and galactic-silver physique stockings.

But they weren't the solely matters that lit up the crowd. At the show's finale, the 4 designers strutted down the runway, smoking and protecting bright-red Legal cigarette packs. Some in the target market have been puzzled. "I did not assume to see smoking on the runway like that at a trend show," stated Rebekah Maginnis, 26 years old, who had come to see the clothing.

Each man or woman in the target market additionally obtained a present bag conserving two packs of Legal cigarettes. Chris Kiely, a model-manager in the crowd, stated he had by no means been given cigarettes as a fashion-show gift. But in latest years, the ties between tobacco worries and trend homes have commenced to fray. Major tobacco companies, such as Philip Morris USA and Reynolds, should adhere to phrases of a 1998 felony agreement with states, which bar cigarette makers from advertising and marketing on billboards or handing out merchandise branded with cigarette logos. And whilst the trend world is full of committed puffers -- many of them teenage runway fashions -- a few high-profile antismoking messages from trend superstars have gained extensive attention.

Christy Turlington, a former mannequin who smoked throughout her runway career, has produced a barrage of "Smoking Is Ugly" public-service commercials speaking about how her father died of lung most cancers and how she quit. Australia-based clothier Wayne Cooper, who obtained nearly $40,000 for trend suggests from British American Tobacco PLC over the years, dropped the sponsor 18 months ago. "This obtained too warm for us," Mr. Cooper says. "We regarded like we had been promotion smoking to younger girls." "I'll possibly depart them in the bag and stroll away," he added.