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So spain banned super skinny models. I wholeheartedly agree with this one. Some of the fashion people are bitching about being used as a scapegoat and the designers freedom's and shit but come on. As a show that uses women because of they perceive as beautiful, skinny, and model material...they should be held liable. As for the designer's freedom...what the hell? They can't design something that fits on someone who isn't grossly underwieght? Then maybe they shouldn't be a designer? Just a thought.
So, what do you guys think about this?
So, what do you guys think about this?
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The ones who are unhealthy should be banned, that goes for the bigger and the smaller ones.
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If they're going to ban people from working based upon weight, then I think that they should ban fat people before the skinny ones.
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MADRID (AFP) - Five models hoping to be booked for Madrid's major fashion show which begins Monday were banned from participating because they are too thin, Spanish media reports said.
This is the first time organisers of a fashion show have applied weight limits set by the World Health Organisation and those of the 44th "Pasarela Cibeles" said their decision was also based on a Spanish regional law aimed at fighting anorexia, a sometimes fatal disease in which women starve themselves to be thin.
The 68 international models stepped on the scales, like boxers, on Saturday and five Spanish "featherweights" failed. The girls had a body mass index, calculated on a height-weight ratio, of under 18 (56 kilograms for 1.75 meters or 123 pounds for five feet eight inches), the limit set by the regional government of Madrid which co-finances the event.
The girls were weighed by volunteer doctors recruited for the occasion by the Spanish society of endocrinology and nutrition (SEEN).
The organisers said they had not even allowed 30 to 40 percent of the models who had taken to the cat-walk in last year's edition of the fashion show to attend the casting.
There will be 27 fashion-shows in the five-day event during which 31, largely Spanish, clothes' designers will show their wares in a marquee set up in Madrid's Retiro park.
The "anti-thin" move was criticised in Paris and New York, two of the world's leading fashion centres.
Fashion "cannot be regulated," said Didier Grumbach, president of the French Fashion Federatoin, adding that if a similar decision were taken in France "everybody would laugh."
"If Jean-Paul Gaultier wants to have fat girls parade, nobody is going to stop him. When Galliano puts people in his shows who are not pretty, pretty, no one says a thing," he added.
Stan Herman, president of the association of US designers, said this was a "discriminatory ban" and explained that the question of overly thin models had never even been raised in New York fashion shows.
The models who took part in last year's Pasarel Cibeles had caused a furore in Spain when they said on television that they dressed in a size 34 or 36 (generally worn by pre-teens or young teenagers) and knew that their careers would be under threat if they gained any weight.
Models are the creed of superficial human beings and the designers are in the same boat with them.
I think the government was out of line in doing that.
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Oh my, they dropped the leash.
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We're all in the spotlight to some degree. Should we lock away anyone who appears unhealthy so others can't see them? I maintain that it's far less healthy to be overweight than underweight.
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In high school my friend was anorexic and working at a fast food place in a mall. She was advised to leave because her anorexic look didn't promote eating there. She could have sued their asses I'm sure.
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