My Own Niece has Fought Anorexia Since She Was 15. That Is Why I Hope No Designers Use Size Zero at London Fashion Week... ; a Trenchant View From a Founder of London Fashion Week
Mail on Sunday › January 28, 2007
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WHEN the British Fashion Council announced last week that it would not impose a ban on 'size zero' models at next month's London Fashion Week, the national outcry was, in many ways, understandable.
Last September, Madrid banned ultra skinny models from the catwalk. In Milan, the girls are required to produce a medical certificate before they can take part in a show. Yet London appears to have done very little to counter the endemic eating disorders that run like a cancer through our industry.See the full content of this document
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My Own Niece has Fought Anorexia Since She Was 15. That Is Why I Hope No Designers Use Size Zero at London Fashion Week... ; a Trenchant View From a Founder of London Fashion Week
In a fortnight, the capital will host its first fashion week since that Madrid ruling. Many had hoped London would follow suit by banning skeletal models from its catwalks.
Instead Stuart Rose, chairman of the British Fashion Council and chief executive of Marks Spencer, said that the...See the full content of this document
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