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The Issues with Underage and Underweight Models

Zoe Malliaros | Posted 05.09.2012

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Zoe Malliaros

The fashion industry must commit to protecting young models, especially because our generation will be setting the precedents and standards for future workers in the industry.

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Carolyn Gregoire

THE HUNGER BLOGS: A Secret World of Teenage 'Thinspiration'

HuffingtonPost.com | Carolyn Gregoire | Posted 02.10.2012

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I'm looking at pictures from before christmas in december. I was so f*cking skinny. Screw recovery. Hello relapse. -- coffeeandhipbones, Tumblr ...

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Catherine Pearson

Fashion And Eating Disorders: How Much Responsibility Does Industry Have?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.13.2011

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When the Council of Fashion Designers of America re-released its health guidelines earlier this year, it called for increasing awareness about eating ...

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Enough With the Body Issues

Laetitia Wajnapel | Posted 09.14.2011

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Laetitia Wajnapel

When one spends too long immersed in the fashion industry, their perception of what a "normal" size is quickly becomes warped.

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Beauty and the (Media) Beast

Layla Revis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Models, Women, Bmi, Style, Advertising, Body Image, Anorexia, Manorexia, Skinny Models, Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Beauty, Fashion Week, Style News
Layla Revis

The more we make excuses for 'aspirational' or artificial constructs of beauty, the more we will experience an unbalanced society wrought with neurotic, unsatisfied women.

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Aren't You Sick of Too Skinny Girls?

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bonnie Fuller

First, New York Fashion Week, then Sports Illustrated -- It's been a double hit of diet-inducing beauties in our faces this week!

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All Walks on the Catwalk

Aimee Liu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aimee Liu

Susan Ringwood's initiative to revolutionize designers' attitudes about "model" bodies wasn't easy. "Did anyone try to tell Picasso to change his models?" a designer demanded.

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Toronto Fashion Week: Jessica Biffi Dreams Big

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marissa Bronfman

Effervescent young designer Jessica Biffi is fresh off Project Runway Canada and already designing three different lines for stylish women of all shapes and sizes.

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Hungry for Change: Why Media Literacy Alone Won't Make Women Love Their Bodies

Chloe Angyal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chloe Angyal

In a study by the Girls Scouts Research Institute, a majority of young women surveyed believe fashion models are too skinny, unrealistic, and look unhealthy and sick. And yet 48% still want to look just like them.

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The Abominable Zero: How We Demonize Size

Juliette Fretté | Posted 05.25.2011

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Juliette Fretté

America is obsessed with numbers. In terms of body image, most of us want to be thin, and our definition of thinness rests in the form of the number that we read on a scale or clothing tags.

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"Plus"

Leona Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leona Palmer

The common response when I state my job is, "But you're not plus! What size are you?" Maybe a better question is: what size are we supposed to be? What do we expect a "plus" model to look like?

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Why the Return of Gorgeous Curvy Supermodels to Fashion Runways is a Victory for All Women!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bonnie Fuller

If you never thought you'd be cheering for Elle McPherson and Victoria's Secret models, then read this and you'll be convinced.

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Marc Bouwer; Fashion Forward

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irene Rubaum-Keller

Marc Bouwer's new show is currently playing on YouTube. You can see each design, and it's variations, in perfect detail and it's so beautifully presented that I believe this is the future of fashion shows.

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Victoria Beckham Defends Size 0s On 'The View' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Another day, another argument in the great model weight debate. Designer Victoria Beckham co-hosted "The View" on Wednesday and talked about the CFDA'...

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'Extremely Thin' Models Cause Concern At Sao Paulo Fashion Week

Posted 05.25.2011

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Creative Director of San Paulo Fashion Week Paulo Borges expressed concern over the "extremely thin" models on the country's catwalks, according to th...

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Germany: Brigitte Magazine Swaps Thin Models For Real Women

AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BERLIN — Germany's most popular women's magazine announced Monday that it is banning professional models from its pages in favor of "real women"...

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Robin Givhan: 'The Fatter The General Population, The Thinner The Idealized Woman'

Washington Post | Robin Givhan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fatter the general population, the thinner the idealized woman. And for all the public posturing and blogging, the only force that stopped people ...

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Emaciation Proclamation: Ralph Lauren Sends Super-Skinny Models Down The Runway (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ralph Lauren has been taking major heat for for the freakish Photoshopping of size 4 model Filippa Hamilton, and reportedly then firing her for being ...

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In Defense Of The Skinny Girl

Mihal Freinquel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mihal Freinquel

The skinny model is a walking, talking hanger for the clothing. The model allows the garment to speak for itself -- no distraction, no confusion, no nothing. Skinny is in and it ain't going anywhere.

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Skinny Model Passes Out At Poleci Fashion Show

Page Six | Posted 05.25.2011

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And at Jeffrey Chow's first collection for the Poleci presentation Saturday night, one girl actually passed out. ...

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Why Have We Stopped Raging Against the Sick, Sick Fashion Industry?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johann Hari

Women have replaced the prison of the kitchen with the prison of an unachievable body shape. The more powerful a woman is, the more likely she is to be bulimic.

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Alexandra Shulman, British Vogue Editor, Blasts Skinny Models In Leaked Letter

Times Online | Will Pavia | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alexandra Shulman, one of the most important figures in the multi-billion-pound fashion industry, has taken on all the largest fashion houses in a str...

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The Ultimate 9-Step Guide to Looking Good

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ali A. Rizvi

Vegetables give you gas and require vitamin supplementation. Cannibalism is illegal. And I'm too self-conscious to take my jiggling torso to a public gym.

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The Death Of Size Zero?

Times Online | Kate Spicer | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a nice thought. The Times of London announced the end of super-skinny models. At last, slowly and from within, it seems fashion is falling back ...

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MTV's New Reality Show, Model Makers , Puts Lives in Danger!

Darryl Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

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Darryl Roberts

While trying to cash in on America's impressionable youth, you are edging closer and closer to absolute moral and ethical bankruptcy.

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