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Sep. 14th, 2006 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikUnderweight Models Banned from Spanish Fashion Show
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zeblith.)
I'm vastly amused. I'm not entirely sure what I think of this -- enough people are naturally rail thin that it seems a little odd to exclude them altogether (though of course more robust women are de facto excluded as well). And of course I disapprove on principle of using the BMI as the standard... For my preference, if you were going to go in this direction at all, perhaps mandating that the average% body fat of any given designers collection not be below a certain point? So if, for artistic reasons, say, you wanted to use some very thin models, you had to use plumper models in your show to balance things out. That kind of body diversity I could really get into.
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zeblith.)I'm vastly amused. I'm not entirely sure what I think of this -- enough people are naturally rail thin that it seems a little odd to exclude them altogether (though of course more robust women are de facto excluded as well). And of course I disapprove on principle of using the BMI as the standard... For my preference, if you were going to go in this direction at all, perhaps mandating that the average% body fat of any given designers collection not be below a certain point? So if, for artistic reasons, say, you wanted to use some very thin models, you had to use plumper models in your show to balance things out. That kind of body diversity I could really get into.
