Fashion World Banning Skinny Models
Category: Health, Fashion, Beauty
The skinny models banning campaign still continues, from fashion designers to organisers and models, backstage it’s the hot topic on everyone’s lips. It follows calls from culture secretary Tessa Jowell for “stick-thin” models to be banned from London Fashion Week. Organisers of one of the world’s largest fashion shows in Birmingham have banned very thin models. The Clothes Show Live is one of the largest fashion and beauty events in the world. Models under a British size six will not take part in the Clothes Show Live event at the NEC.
Gavin Brown, head of Haymarket Exhibitions, said: “Young girls and women come to the Clothes Show Live every year and it is therefore vital that we ensure that the messages that we are sending them are the right ones. Girls do not need to be a size 00 to make it as a model, or look as good in the designs that grace the catwalk. To prove this, Clothes Show Live will see an array of gorgeous models take to our catwalks and none of them will be a 00 in size.” spokesman for organisers, Haymarket Exhibitions, said they had a duty to set a good example to visitors to the December show.
In the past, top models such as Jodie Kidd, Naomi Campbell, Karen Mulder and 
Caprice have graced its catwalks. But as the skinny model banning campaign rolling, organisers said there was a need to “set a responsible example” to the thousands of visitors to the show. Other fashion professionals have criticised the move, but it has been welcomed by doctors who see it as a good way to help fight anorexia, the disorder caused by fear of weight gain which particularly affects young women.
The British designer Paul Smith also backed the call for an end to size-zero models, he said skinny models are just a fad and fuller figures will return to the catwalk soon.
Launching his womenswear collection at London Fashion Week, Smith said: “I would like the girls to be bigger. I would have used bigger girls for this show, but you have to go with what the agencies send you.”
“The casting agencies, if they are clever, might start searching for girls that are a little bit bigger, maybe even just one size bigger,” he said after his show in which all his models were thin.
The world’s first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other catwalk pageants. Steve Bloomfield, spokesman for the Eating Disorders Association, said that a ban would be “positive and useful” in helping combat growing levels of anorexia and bulimia, possibly through legislation. Britain’s Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell headed a list of politicians supporting a ban. Ruling out regulation, she was quoted by the same paper as calling for “healthy girls” of a more realistic size.
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