Sitting in Hahvahd squah, while redmed has her job interview. Go, redmed!
Good times last night with technolope and capital_l. The only down side is that my abs still hurt when I laugh, so an evening of laughing and laughing was sort of painful. We ate cheap chinese and discussed (among other things) the megaton standard for US currency. Truly, our economy is braced, stabilized, and guaranteed by unimaginably overwhelming explosions. Nobody will call us on our debts because we would blow them off the map. Why not print it on the money?
And now: The News
Skinny models banned from the catwalks
MADRID, Spain (Reuters) — The world’s first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
Madrid’s fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.
Organizers say they want to project an image of beauty and health, rather than a waif-like, or heroin chic look.
“I think its outrageous, I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women, but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer,” said Gould, Elite’s North America director, adding that the move could harm careers of naturally “gazelle-like” models.
The mayor of Milan, Italy, Letizia Moratti, told an Italian newspaper this week she would seek a similar ban for her city’s show unless it could find a solution to “sick” looking models.
The Madrid show is using the body mass index or BMI — based on weight and height — to measure models. It has turned away 30 percent of women who took part in the previous event. Medics will be on hand at the September 18-22 show to check models.
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