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| Israel Did It First: Banning Skinny Minnies | |
 by Amy Odell, September 15, 2006
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If any of you have been as disgusted as me watching this Fashion Week's regime of toothpicks struggle to lift the weight of the very "in" platform stiletto (I recall some of Marc Jacobs' models were especially appalling... like his gross striped dresses), you'll find it refreshing that Madrid Fashion Week has banned underweight models. The ban came after protests that the skeletons we call supermodels were inspiring way too many young'ns to develop eating disorders.
But not so fast there, Spain. You're not the first country to show such concern for your eating disordered population. Israel beat you to it!
Adi Barkan, an Israeli photographer, "successfully submitted legislation to the Knesset in December, 2004" requiring modeling agencies to review models' BMIs to ensure they're not underweight. Read more in this old Guardian article.
How long has eating been out of style for? Since the stirrup pant? I say let's bring 'em back together.
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Amy Odell is a writer living in New York City. She is New York magazine's fashion blogger. Her work has also appeared in the New York Observer, where she got her start in journalsm interviewing celebrities at parties and writing about More... |
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Joey Kurtzman
My lurid past with Adi Barkan
Just because I think you guys don't appreciate what a miserable dork I am, I'm going to make an excited announcement every time a topic comes up about which I wrote the Wikipedia entry back when I was Wikipedia hobbying.
Adi Barkan: wrote it. Boring and brief, but reasonably informative, like a lot of Wikipedia "stubs". I had to bring that man to the people, he's fantastic.
בשר זה רצח,
Joey
Michael Weiss
That chick is gross...
David Spade put it best: "It's time for the heterosexuals to start choosing the models." Why does the fashion industry deem attractive women who can sharpen steak knives with their faces? Bring on the meat! Girls are supposed to be soft and curvaceous! Callipygian, even... Sorry, I just love that word. It was the "junk in the trunk" of antiquity.
You know that some anorexics actually bruise if they turn over too hard in their sleep? Who'd want to fuck anything like that?
Joey Kurtzman
Boy, you don't even KNOW...
"Callipygian" has got NOTHING on "steatopygian"! Now that's where the real money is...
בשר זה רצח,
Joey
Izzy Grinspan
Gawker had my favorite angle on the underfed
when they linked to a hilarious story about a model who was too skinny to keep her tights up on the runway:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/06/1157222201263.html
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