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New York Fashion Week brings along the usual criticism of models being too thin. Carmen Kass has been a successful model since the late 1990s, when she debuted at the Chanel show in Paris and ...
Mr. Brulé said that he had recently seen a significant increase in the casting of girls he described as “distractingly skinny” in fashion shows this season. One model who had lost a lot of ...
Fashion models should be benched if they are dangerously thin, and U.S. regulators should make sure this happens. So says a provocative editorial published Monday in the American Journal of Public ...
Vogue may feature thin fashion models but that is because models are thin. Thin is what they do, the same way as concert pianists play pianos and tennis players whack balls. But we also feature ...
Designers at New York Fashion Week seemed to favor a healthier look for models — this year there were fewer protruding collar bones and ribs to be counted on the runways. If model thin is always ...
The fashion industry may be changing its ways, but there’s still a long way to go. British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful claims that models do actually eat and aren’t as stick-thin as ...
And that generally translates to homogenous, largely white and thin models, despite the fact that such body types are not representative of the fashion-buying population at large. As Ms. Taymour ...
Fashion models at Canada's Montreal Fashion Week (Oct. 9–11) take note: You won't be allowed to strut the runways if you're too thin. The move reflects a growing concern in the fashion industry.
But there was just one thing on my mind. “Is it me, or are the models extra skinny this season?” I texted a friend who works in fashion. “Yes,” she replied immediately, “they’re ...
Everyone hates skinny models in ads, and there are good reasons ... women more attractive to the opposite sex is part of what fashion is supposed to do. Mandel concludes that such ads would ...