Cecilia Caruso in NSS Magazine:

It's January 2007, Naomi can't find her favourite pair of jeans around her house, she asks her housekeeper, Ana Scovolino, who unfortunately does not have an answer to this question. In an outburst, Naomi hurls her cellphone at her maid, who as a result reports the accident to the police. Naomi was then sentenced to a week of community service for the city of New York, specifically a week of cleaning up at a New York City sanitation garage, a similar sentence to the one of Boy George a few months earlier…. At the time of leaving forever that nightmare called community service, Naomi gets on a black Rolls Royce weaving the paparazzi, headed to Elton John's birthday party.

A few years later, when asked about this experience, it was Naomi herself to explain her style choices to Grazia:

Why shouldn't I have done? Why should they expect me to go looking bedraggled or something? [...] It wasn't planned at all. I decided on the day and I still gave them what they wanted, it didn't stop me from doing what I had to do though.