In the midst of Milan’s all-important Fashion Week, the picture that is turning heads in Italy is a shocking one. An Italian advertising campaign featuring photos of an Italian label, Nolita, an emaciated girl is supposed to serve as a warning to young women, but medical experts fear it could encourage anorexia and other eating disorders. It’s the latest work by controversial Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani.
It shows what anorexia looks like stripped bare. And, it is re-igniting the debate in the fashion industry over whether designers should make sure that the models who appear on their catwalks are really healthy.
French actress Isabelle Caro, 27, who has suffered anorexia for 15 years and weighs just 31 kilograms appears in the adverts next to the slogan “No Anorexia.” Read more of Anorexia Fashion Ads Statement Controversy
British beauty and actress Kate Winslet has slammed the rising trend for super skinny models and actresses. The straightforward star of The Holiday is famous for her curves. And she has no desire to join their ranks as she finds the size zero thing ‘unbelievably disturbing’. She finds the glamorization of ultra-skinny models and actresses disturbing and says she keeps magazines featuring such women away from her 6-year-old daughter. “It’s only a matter of time before she becomes aware of it, and it frightens the life out of me,” Winslet said of her daughter, Mia.
The 31-year-old star of Titanic said: “I don’t want to be a finger pointer…but young girls are very impressionable.”
Kate’s worries about the US size zero trend (which is equivalent to a UK size four) is such that she is taking active steps to keep images of famous skinnies such as Nicole Richie away from her six-year-old daughter Mia. Read more of Kate Winslet Slams Ultra-Skinny Models Glamorization
With 14 modeling contracts, including campaigns for Burberry, Calvin Klein, Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Louis Vuitton, David Yurman and Versace, you’d think Kate Moss’s plate would be not just full but overflowing. The British beauty supermodel Kate Moss is moving off the catwalk to create her very own clothes line for the U.K.’s Topshop, it has been confirmed. She is teaming up with the high street giant to produce her own line, in a deal worth a reputed £3-million (about R40-million).
The model, who has seen her career soar as late, was seen sat next to the chain’s billionaire owner Phillip Green during London Fashion Week.
Philip Green, the head of the company’s parent group Arcadia,, who owns Topshop’s parent group Arcadia, struck the deal personally after meeting Moss and deciding they should work together. Read more of Kate Moss Design Clothing Line for Topshop
Skinny models banning campaign still continues, though the London Fashion Week has not applied Madrid’s “no skinny models” rule, the event is being overshadowed by the weighty debate. The Clothes Show Live at the NEC stepped into the campaign against stick-thin models yesterday when it pledged not to use girls who are too skinny.
Organisers Haymarket Exhibitions have pledged no size two models (American size 00) will be appearing at the Fashion Theatre at the event in December. Boss Gavin Brown said: “Girls do not need to be a size 00 to make it as a model or look good. To prove this, none of the gorgeous models in our December show will be size 00.”
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. Read more of Skinny Banning Models on World’s Largest Fashion Show
The organisers of Madrid Fashion Week have announced they are banning skinny thin models women in order to develop a more healthy image for the event this month, an unprecedented swipe at body images blamed for encouraging eating disorders among young people. This fashion banning has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other catwalk pageants. If any very thin models do turn up, they will be classed as unhealthy and in need of medical help.
The association said Friday it wanted models at the show running from Sept. 18-22 to project “an image of beauty and health” and shun a gaunt, emaciated look. Madrid’s fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that young girls and women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders. Read more of Skinny Models Banning Controversy Shocks Fashion World
While it seems like images of young Hollywood celebrities such as Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan are everywhere, tween girls are not relying on them to set fashion trends, according to a recent survey conducted by Tween Brands Inc. The survey found that as tweens kick their back-to-school outfit planning into high gear, they are shopping for items based on the their own unique sense of style rather than modeling their wardrobe after those found in a celebrity’s closet.
“A year ago, when I was 13, I didn’t look at celebrities,” said Kelly Collazos, a Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, student. “I would look at magazines or catalogues and say, ‘I have a shirt like that, I’ll put it together that way’.”
When asked who their fashion role models will be for the fall season, 40 percent of tween girls ages 7 to 14 indicated that they set their own fashion style, while only 12 percent indicated that they look to celebrities for inspiration. Younger tweens ages 7 and 8, reported that they tended to rely more heavily on celebrities (23 percent) and their mothers (19 percent) for style tips. Older tweens ages 13 and 14 attributed their fashion sense to models in magazines/catalogs (20 percent), as well as to their friends (19 percent). Read more of How Pre-Teen Girls Choose Their Own Fashion
Supermodel Kate Moss has been voted on to Vanity Fair magazine’s top list for the best dressed people in the world after getting more votes than any other woman for a place on its 67th annual International Best-Dressed List. She has completed her comeback from cocaine-fuelled notoriety and graces the cover of the forthcoming issue wearing nothing but a white fur hat, long white gloves, and over-the-knee leather boots. Vanity Fair’s fashion and style director, Michael Roberts, said she was “the most followed style icon of our time. She looks ravishing whether she’s going to the grocery store or walking the red carpet.”
Vabity Fair gave the model the seal of sartorial excellence also bestowed on such queens of style as Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy.
In a stunning shoot inspired by ’30s and ’40s movie siren Marlene Dietrich, Kate Moss proves that she still has star power and style. Moss, 32, lost contracts with a host of fashion houses after photos of her using coke were published last year. Read more of Kate Moss Tops Best Dressed on Vanity Fair

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