Pressure was mounting today for a catwalk ban on super-skinny models. On the eve of London Fashion Week the growing trend for "size-zero" models in the fashion industry is causing grave concern. ... They are urging London to follow the lead taken by Madrid -- and likely to be adopted by Milan -- of banning models below a certain size from the catwalks. ... Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm, the London agency that employs Cole, hit back at the calls for a ban. She said: "It is useless to talk about body mass indexes. Who knows what that means apart from your doctor? "It depends on different body types. Some people have different muscle density.
On the eve of London Fashion Week the growing trend for "size-zero" models in the fashion industry is causing grave concern.
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They are urging London to follow the lead taken by Madrid -- and likely to be adopted by Milan -- of banning models below a certain size from the catwalks.
Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm, the London agency that employs Cole, hit back at the calls for a ban.
She said: "It is useless to talk about body mass indexes. Who knows what that means apart from your doctor?
"It depends on different body types. Some people have different muscle density.
Also amusing is what The Times of London had to say about this last week (see the breakfast)
But pear-shaped females should not celebrate too heartily, for the leading names of world fashion are showing no sign of following in the Spaniards' footsteps. The Pasarela Cibeles trade fair in Madrid is a minnow compared with the big fish of Milan, Paris, New York and London fashion weeks.
Isn't that the purpose of these fashion shows that we identify with the models and thus want to look like them and thus of course want to buy the clothes they are wearing.
No, the purpose is to make as many as possible feel unhappy about themselves and thereby produce the need to shop for beauty and happiness. So the more inaccesible the ideal is, the better. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Oi vey... You can't be me, I'm taken
