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  • Big is beautiful on the Milan catwalk

    09/24/2006 7:10:09 AM PDT · by MadIvan · 46 replies · 2,707+ views
    The Observer ^ | September 24, 2006 | Barbara McMahon
    Milan Fashion week kicked off with another band of glamorous models sashaying down the runway, yet there was one notable difference: they had flesh on their bones.With the row over too-thin models rumbling on, it was ironic that the opening show in the famously chic Italian fashion capital featured clothes for the fuller-figured. Size 14 and 16 models strutted their stuff at the Elena Miro fashion show, displaying busts, hips and bottoms with abandon. Curves were confidently on show and body mass indices, the measure of body fat based on height and weight and the rating that has caused so...
  • Models' skinniness can't be regulated: French fashion official

    09/15/2006 4:48:24 PM PDT · by Huntress · 17 replies · 601+ views
    AFP/Breitbart.com ^ | 9/15/06 | Unattributed
    The shape and size of fashion models cannot be regulated, the head of the French couture federation has said, after models deemed too skinny were reportedly banned from the catwalk in Spain. Didier Grumbach, president of the couture federation and chamber of haute couture, told AFP late Thursday that "everyone would laugh" if France attempted to follow suit. Excessively-thin models have been barred from a major Madrid fashion show later this month for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls, local media reported last week. Madrid's regional government, which is co-financing the Pasarela Cibeles, has vetoed...