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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...