Italy Bans Skinny Models
Italy has produced some of the most famous beauties that the world and Hollywood has ever seen. Film stars such as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren represented the sultry and voluptuous woman.
Now Italy joins Spain in regulating the health and weight of fashion models. The Italian Fashion Chamber has teamed with the Italian government to produce a code that would ensure that models are healthy by requiring that models produce medical proof that they do not have an eating disorder. It would also ban models younger than 16. Interestingly, the code asks for fashion houses to add larger sizes to their collections.
In the photos of these famous Italian beauties it is clear that their clothes were designed to accentuate their assets. What you notice about clothes on fashion models today is that these sorts of assets would get in the way. The clothes seem designed to be draped over the stick figure clothes hanger that is the model. Which, I wonder, would men consider to be more attractive?
It would be wonderful if this code could be adopted internationally. It could save the lives of many young girls who develop eating disorders in trying to emulate these models and it would finally allow real women to assert their beauty.
I think the fashion industry has improved immensely since the days of Sophia Loren et al. I think it is FAR more healthy that fashion is now about FASHION in lieu of an attempt to be sexually attractive to men. In fact, the latter rather sickens me.
By Hayley on March 23rd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Fashion being about fashion doesn’t say much. Fashion is really just someone else telling you what to wear.
In the current atmosphere, where cosmetic surgery is becoming a storefront business and the television schedule is filled with shows like “Extreme Makeover” and “Nip and Tuck”, healthy is the last word I would use to describe the desperate measures to which women will go to be considered “atrractive” by society’s definition of the word.
By Andrea on March 25th, 2007 at 1:08 pm