Re: Madrid banned super-thin models; Milan might be next
nimh wrote:Doesnt sound like a bad idea to me..
Quote:Madrid's thin-model ban worries Italy
Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week, fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less than two weeks away.
Milan's mayor, Letizia Moratti, told a newspaper this week that she may bring the Spanish ban on underweight models to Italian shows. Madrid is turning away models whose body mass index, based on weight and height, falls below a certain level.
"With those kind of rules, we'd have to turn away 80 per cent of models. "Naomi Campbell wouldn't be able to walk down the catwalk, she'd be too thin," said Riccardo Gay, head of the model agency of the same name that used to represent Campbell in Milan.
He also said Madrid had exaggerated the issue. "Some designers have used extremely thin models, but we haven't. We tell models to exercise, eat well, go to bed early ?- sensible rules," he added.
Madrid's regional government imposed the rules on fashion week to protect the models as well as teenagers who may develop anorexia as they try to copy underweight catwalk stars.
Going back to your original post...If according to this Ricardo Gay, 80% of models would be too thin for the catwalk, I think it will be absolutely AMAZING how quickly the girls will put on those extra pounds.
Here's a picture of Christian Dior and his models some time in the 1950's.
All at a fine weight, on the slender side.
You know, all this obssession with low weight seems to have started in the 60's, with Twiggy. Truthfully, no one I knew of found her attractive at all....we would make jokes about how skinny she was....Looking back, this was a, what, 15 or 16 year old girl?
This is what Twiggy Lawson looks like today....
This comment is oversimplified, but it's not that far fetched....
Did we become so obsessed with weighing the least amount possible without fainting because of a 16 year old girl, who probably had barely started menstruating?
hmmmmm.....
Who's decision was it to promote this back then? A few people who thought women should look like boys?
freaky.
