Skinny model ban
March 21, 2008 · Print This Article
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A few weeks ago, I was approached to write for a model magazine.
I don’t do well when I am instructed or requested to write on a specific topic or area. In fact, I do horribly. With the lack of passion for the reason of being imposed to write on something related to the modelling arena, I wrote this with effort+enthusiam<18 BMI.
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“If the United Nations recent hot agenda is climate change, then in the fashion world it would be the skinny model ban.
As the Paris Fashion show kicks off, a recent survey by Yahoo! Entertainment, showed that Kelly Brook is the most wanted woman to be seen on the catwalk. Naturally, the diva of the ultra-skinny species, Victoria Beckham, found the limelight at the bottom of the survey.
Kate Moss, skinny model trend setter, post Twiggy era, made it 7th on the list. Nevertheless, if the ban is imposed, whether or not she wants to be seen by others, or others want to see her, she wouldn’t have made it.
The ban imposes that a catwalk model must have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18. When Spain took the lead, 30% of the catwalk models, including Esther Canadas, were turned away.
What most suspect the skinny model debate is the fact that three models have died from anorexia. And if the fashion industry does bear a significant influence to the people, and thus the girls being selected as models, the effect it has on young impressionable girls who look up to these (role) models, is worrying.
On one hand, you have a few big names who may not support the skinny models ban but who prove that you can make it by being curvy. Namely Laetitia Casta, a Victoria Secret favourite who refused when told to pluck her eyebrows, lose weight or fix her teeth.
On the other hand, following the ban by the hosts in Madrid, fellow peers in London refused to follow suit. Another big gun, the Council of Fashion Designer America, which founded the New York Fashion Week, has also expressed its opinion against the ban.
In a statement by the CFDA, “eating disorders are emotional disorders that have psychological, behavioural, social, and physical manifestations, of which body weight is only one.”
It’s another chicken or the egg problem for the six letter F word industry. What should lead the way? The ban or a shift in fashion paradigm?”
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