Hope in the Fashion World

Sep 13, 2006 09:33

The Madrid fashion week is banning models that are too skinny, they have to be at a certain BMI in order to walk the runway. I realize that the girls that will end up walking are still really thin, at least it doesn't mean that girls that are skeletons will be out there. Modeling agencies are freaked out, which I find interesting because they are ( Read more... )

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joymattingly September 14 2006, 17:21:15 UTC
wow. that's awesome. i think it's hysterical that the spokeswoman from Elite Model Agency is actually outraged because she fears discrimination of naturally "gazelle-like" model. Natural gazelles still don't look like heroin addicts. . . . so how can she even say that with a straight face.

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stillh20 September 14 2006, 17:24:52 UTC
i know... and what is also sad, is if a girl is closer to a normal size (which i realize in model world is still really thin) it is known that a designer can possibly say she is fat and won't use her. @!#$!@ Sometimes I wonder why I support the fashion industry like I do.

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