NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the first big shows since it tried to address the problem of stick-thin models, the U.S. fashion industry seems to have cast the issue off like last season's styles and the models still looked emaciated. Before the fall shows in February, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the U.S. industry's trade group, issued guidelines teaching models about nutrition, banning those under 16 from runways and offering healthy food backstage, with no smoking or alcohol. But the issue failed to generate much controversy beyond the catwalks, and consumers did not spurn designers who used ultra-thin models, experts say. "What a shame, that it was such a big deal last season, and now nobody seems to have noticed that the models have not gained an ounce," said David A. Wolfe, creative director of The Doneger Group trend forecasters. And The elaborate folds and puffy sleeves in many spring styles helped keep the issue under wraps in the shows at New York's Fashion Week, which concluded on Wednesday. Now no one is even talking about it, Wolfe said, partly because the newest outfits show less skin. "Longer hemlines are covering the toothpick legs," he said. "The full skirts are covering the jutting hip-bones." Models have long been skinny but their weight became a hot topic after two Latin American models died of anorexia last year. Critics say fashion's obsession with waif-like frames leads young women to dislike their bodies. Milan fashion houses responded by barring ultra-skinny and under-age models. But Milan remains the only city of the four world centers of fashion -- the others being New York, London and Paris -- to enact an outright ban. http://www.reuters.com/article/life...207_1835_DOUBLEFEATURE_worlds_worst_polluters
Milan being the only one actually enforcing the banning? Make sense, I guess, since Italy is more about the voluptuous female figure (than the other three cities)
everyone was so worked up about it when those 2 models died...but seriously...i dont see any changes It's about time they really do something about this issue instead of just saying their going to... and some of the models just look very scary
I don't know, I never quite saw what's the big deal about it. I don't see HK people making a big deal out of Gillian losing 30 pounds -- which, I shall add, she doesn't have THAT many 30 pounds in her... I am more in the clan of "modeling in fact is a very physically demanding job, despite the mythical glamour around it, most anorexic girls simply don't cut it in this comepetitive business"
I honestly think that lots of them have become sooo skinny that it doesnt even look nice anymore... Being a model is about looks...but does it have to be thaaat skinny....? Some of them just look very unhealthy... and about gillian...when i read the title of that thread i was thinking to myself....30pounds??? that must be like...what...almost a third/ half of her total weight?
I must admit that I have a thing for rail-thin girls in dramatic costumes... And also, it is a FACT that fabrics, especially soft fabrics such as jersey and silk, is VERY unforgiving and only drape nicely on a hanger, um, I mean, rail-thin models. -sweat That's what I thought too, but I don't see an angry mob getting upset over her weight loss... Most of them even congradulated her! -huh
I saw a picture of Keira Knightley (i know shes not a model) in a magazine yesterday...damn...i felt sorry fer her as i was looking at her picture... I know she looks "bad" for a while now...but the pic i saw yesterday was just SCARY.... i cant believe she actually thinks that is pretty... shes just obsessed with being skinny...
I think actresses are scarier than models... Since most of them are shorter than models, so they are EXTRA obsessed with getting thinner...
Nah....at least lots of the girls in the movies look nice to look at and pics from the red carpet arent photoshopped i assume....
In fact many of them got tweaked for colour, and do not believe any stills, little to none of them are un-touched.
=/....hmmm then i dunno... this whole world is messed up since photoshop was invented....=O we dont know whats real and whats not anymore
How can you trust a photograph? Everything is a matter of make-up, hair and alas, PHOTOSHOP! [youtube]iYhCn0jf46U[/youtube] And of course, to balance it out a little bit... [youtube]7-kSZsvBY-A[/youtube]
Err....ok...thats like that korean chick who photoshopped her pic....a complete different person in the end
EWWWW. Guys only know to look for the boobs... -nono And no, I liked the 2nd one better than the first... by like a mile and a half, if not more...
thus resulting in the many millions of people across the world who are anorexic and possibly cannot be cured of it for their natural lives which get cut short because of their conditions.
