More on the skinny models ban
Filed in archive Beauty , Fashion and Style , News by Ivy on September 19, 2006
Fashion shows in Milan and London are getting phone calls from majors, health officials and the like, Reuters reports:
"The mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, has said she will seek a similar ban for Milan Fashion Week -- starting in a week's time -- unless it can find a solution to "sick" looking models. Fearing they could be targeted next, Milan model agency boss Riccardo Gay said "With those kind of rules, we'd have to turn away 80 percent of models. Naomi Campbell wouldn't be able to walk down the catwalk."
This skinny model ban is reaching it's peak in public debates, and the always sharp Ms. Karen Kay writes for Daily Mail about the other perspective of this question. In her great and in-depth article she talks to fashion designers, runway organizers and editors, telling us how many of them feel about this issue.
"For me as a designer, I would never knowingly use a model who was anorexic, but the simple fact is that we employ these girls as moving coat-hangers. "We're not looking for sex appeal or to hold a mirror up to the woman on the street, we're trying to shift clothes to the store buyers, and I personally think that a slender figure is the best way to show them off."
Others compare runway pieces to concept cars, which no one drives. There's also an interesting remark at the end of the article saying that the whole ban-thing is just to move even more spotlight, camera flash and pens to the fashion shows.
To make it short, many of fashion professionals think that anorexia and other eating disorders cannot be blamed on the fashion industry.
Am I the only one who sees how much glossy magazines, famous skinny actresses and fashion industry are affecting young girls? I'm not saying our teens are brainless, but they surely are easily influenced.
And don't get me wrong, I'm for women all shapes and sizes, from 0 to whatever, but prefer them to be as healthy as they possibly can be, while vomiting, fasting and hating their bodies surely isn't the way to go.
Please share your thought on the subject, I'll be pleased to hear all your pros and cons.
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