Posted on 02/03/2007 2:33:29 PM PST by melt
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York City Council member Thursday proposed pushing sponsors to ban abnormally thin models from walking New York Fashion Week's runways.
Council member Gail Brewer wants fashion houses to ban any model with a body mass index of less than 18.5 -- the cutoff for the World Health Organization's definition of "normal."
Brewer said she wants models to be educated on nutrition and designers to encourage healthful lifestyles. "We want the designers to offer some clothes that are a little bit more robust," she also told CNN, "and we certainly don't want people under the age of 16 to be modeling."
Madrid Fashion Week set a BMI limit of 18 in September, and Italian designers in December agreed to health and age guidelines for runway models, The Associated Press reported.
On Wednesday, Assemblyman Jose Rivera of the Bronx introduced a resolution in the state legislature to generate standards to protect the health of teenage models and entertainers, AP reported.
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Maybe New York should pass a law to force-feed "Trans Fats" to skinny models.
Well, they ought to be asked to [or induced into a] sneeze. If a model can sneeze strongly without breaking in two- it ought to be OK. And any model breaking in two from a sneeze, would not be a model any longer.
Sheesh, from one EXTREME to the other, can't we find a happy medium?
Please tell me that's not a real fashion photo - that it's from one of those ghastly anorexia sites.
Mrs VS
What won't those crazy totalitarians ban next?
Sadly, it's not fake. It was Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston before she died of anorexia.
Unless the government is going to tell us what to wear next year (Mao suits perhaps?) and give us the tax break with which to purchase the mandatory said clothing, then they need to stay the H**l out of this!
And no, I don't work in the fashion industry, never have, never had the interest or talent to. And yes, I think that a lot of the models are too think but don't think that its any of my business.
WRONG, it IS altered!
Sheesh. Just read SNOPES!
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/models.asp
It HAS that same pic on it.
Sheesh!
South, I do agree with you, but on the other hand the modeling world is filled with gays who want girls to have bodies like little boys.
All the anorexia photos that we see are altered, I think that is wrong, but on the other hand the gay men that run the fashion industry, and their willing fag-hags like Anna Wintour are encouraging this.
In this case they won't stop, haven't stopped, their CFS industry standards thing was a JOKE.
I'm actually glad they are saying something about this.
The ana pic is altered. See my other post.
I'm glad its being brought out into the open but really don't think that it is the role of government to decide who is too thin.
The modeling standards have changed since I was a teenager and for the worse. Its a pity that the fashion industry (and acting for that matter) won't do what is best for the models/actresses health.
Why doesn't Council member Gail Brewer worry about government related issues and not fashion models.
Hey Gail mind your own business.
After:
I was fooled, and I apologize for the misinformation. She still was pretty skinny, though.
I think New York should ban Photoshop... : )
Oh I agree, but the gay leftards that run the industry will only respond to other far left gaytards who regulate them.
This is more like a fight between 2 extreme left sides.
I'd offer us all popcorn, but this is a post about modeling, and well, we really shouldn't eat, know what I mean?
:)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1987928,00.html
Link to a recent article on Ana Carolina Reston, it is heartbreaking. 2 models died of anorexia in 2006.
They probably won't ban spanking models. Even in California, I think it's still legal.
Its not only the anorexia but the drugs that models get addicted to in order to remain that thin.......
What a waste of time, effort, and tax dollars.
Recall campaign against Gail Brewer.
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