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09-12-2006, 06:24 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
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| | | Madrid Shows Ban Stick-Thin Models
Intriguing. I think I support them on this. The yelping from the model agencies was amusing.
The world's first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.
Organisers say they want to project an image of beauty and health, rather than a waif-like, or heroin chic look.
But Cathy Gould, of New York's Elite modeling agency, said the fashion industry was being used as a scapegoat for illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia.
"I think it's outrageous, I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women, but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer," said Gould, Elite's North America director, adding that the move could harm careers of naturally 'gazelle-like' models.
Madrid's regional government, which sponsors the show and imposed restrictions, said it did not blame designers and models for anorexia. It said the fashion industry had a responsibility to portray healthy body images.
"Fashion is a mirror and many teenagers imitate what they see on the catwalk," said regional official Concha Guerra.
The mayor of Milan, Italy, Letizia Moratti, told an Italian newspaper this week she would seek a similar ban for her city's show unless it could find a solution to "sick" looking models.
Quality, Not Size
The Madrid show is using the body mass index or BMI - based on weight and height - to measure models. It has turned away 30 percent of women who took part in the previous event. Medics will be on hand at the September 18-22 show to check models.
"The restrictions could be quite a shock to the fashion world at the beginning, but I'm sure it's important as far as health is concerned," said Leonor Perez Pita, director of Madrid's show, also known as the Pasarela Cibeles.
A spokeswoman for the Association of Fashion Designers of Spain, which represents those at Madrid fashion week, said the group supported restrictions and its concern was the quality of collections, not the size of models.
Eating disorder activists said many Spanish model agencies and designers oppose the ban and they had doubts whether the new rules would be followed.
"If they don't go along with it the next step is to seek legislation, just like with tobacco," said Carmen Gonzalez of Spain's Association in Defense of Attention for Anorexia and Bulimia, which has campaigned for restrictions since the 1990s.
Reuters
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09-12-2006, 07:18 PM
|  | breakfast | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New Yawk
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| | | That pisses me off.
Just because your BMI says that you're underweight, doesn't mean that you're unhealthily thin. They're ruining the whole concept of runway models; they're supposed to be like walking clothes hangers for the designers' pieces, so the audience can see the real way the clothes are supposed to look without it getting bunched up in curves.
There's nothing wrong with having curves. It's just NOT the look of a runway model. |
09-12-2006, 07:20 PM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
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| | | As a general rule, anything that pisses off models or their agents makes me happy, but I ought not to be nasty about it. Having models who are walking coathangers is logical, but the people influenced by models and desperate to look like them are not so much. |
09-12-2006, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by bort But Cathy Gould, of New York's Elite modeling agency, said the fashion industry was being used as a scapegoat for illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia.
"I think it's outrageous, I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women, but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer," said Gould, Elite's North America director, adding that the move could harm careers of naturally 'gazelle-like' models. | Oh PLEASE. This bitch makes me want to scream. The differences between starving to death and "naturally gazelle like" are pretty fucking obvious. And the 'freedom of the designer'? OH FOR FUCK SAKE. Who the fuck are the designers making clothes for? Not every woman is a fucking rake.
It's people like her who glamourise eating disorders. She ought to be shot. |
09-12-2006, 07:42 PM
|  | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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Originally Posted by beverly thrills That pisses me off.
Just because your BMI says that you're underweight, doesn't mean that you're unhealthily thin. They're ruining the whole concept of runway models; they're supposed to be like walking clothes hangers for the designers' pieces, so the audience can see the real way the clothes are supposed to look without it getting bunched up in curves.
There's nothing wrong with having curves. It's just NOT the look of a runway model. | Why don't they just have hangers out there and roll them out if that's what they really want? I'm not trying to be confrontational and I know you're very thin, but the popularity of overly thin models comes and goes, so I don't think it necessarily is a requirement. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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