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The news that fashion models will not be required to pass health checks before working in London Fashion Week got me thinking about the perennial skinny models issue. You know, the size zero conspiracy my cohorts and I cooked up. (True story: we were totally just trying to found a diet support group, but then this Brazilian started in with the calorie counting, someone’s hips went down to 33.5”, and a Lithuanian was all like, ‘We are in all of the magazines, and we work with all of the clients, so why don’t we just hoodwink untold millions of the world’s young women into associating thinness with beauty?’, and then Vogue booked her and I guess we all just went a little crazy for a while there.) Anyway. After re-evaluating its plan to improve models’ health, the British Fashion Council announced that nobody will have to get a... [read full story]
