Council of Fashion Designers of America’s lame excuses for not enforcing models' health guidelines

A brief collection of excuses by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) offered during the recent NYC fashion week to explain why its guidelines in favor of models’ health lacked an enforcement provision.  My comments are in italics:

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Natalia Vodianova's disordered eating, and Elle "The Body" MacPherson cannot find a man!

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Ignoramus Naomi Campbell; the tragedy of Luisel and Eliana Ramos

News related to the fashion world...

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Response to comments by Claudia Schiffer and Stefano Gabbana

Some news on fashion pertinent to the contents of this site...

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Exposure to skinny fashion models and body image in women

A number of studies have examined what happens to girls’ or women’s ratings of their bodies if they are exposed to images of skinny fashion models in a laboratory setting.  Many of these studies have reported worsened body image among the participants, some have reported no change in body image and a few have even reported improved body image.  Groesz et al.(1; zip) carried out a meta-analysis of 25 such studies, i.e., grouped the samples to see overall trends.

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Fashion models increasingly slender and masculine in the latter half of the twentieth century

A commentator pointed out:

I sometimes wonder why thin is in right now--- for the most part, fashion recycles itself-- in the 60’s and 70’s thin was in, then in the 80’s and a good portion of the 90’s the “Amazon” models were popular, like Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford. So one would expect this to start recycling itself...but it hasn’t.

New studies and the latest literature review on the prevalence of eating disorders

A definitive debunking of eating disorders statistics presented by Naomi Wolf was posted earlier.  A newer literature review and two new studies on the prevalence of eating disorders are presented below. Trends are discussed, and data on the prevalence of eating disorders that do not fall into standard diagnostic categories are presented.

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Irishka A. from Met Art

Irishka A. from Met Art

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Mario Testino: high-fashion models not too thin

Famous fashion photographer Mario Testino has recently said that high-fashion models are not skinny to an extent that one needs to be concerned about it.  Testino provided no justification other than saying that “We are in a business to sell clothes. Clothes look better on a thinner person, but I don't think that clothes look good on a skeleton, myself.”  How informative!

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Invitation-only discussion on beauty and health in the fashion world during NYC fashion week...Duh!

Did anyone expect that the Council of Fashion Designers of America was serious about the health initiative recommendations for fashion models it made a short while ago?  Read on...

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