Organizers of a top-level fashion show in Spain recently banned models that they thought were too skinny. Students at Cienega High School were asked what they think of the ban and what they and their ...

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian fashion's show week wound up on Friday amid a bitter row over stick-thin models, lacklustre reviews and claims leading local designers largely ignored the country's ...

For decades, researchers and activists have criticized the fashion industry for promoting a narrow, unrealistic, and often unhealthy body ideal for women. In the 1980s, two researchers made a splash ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Claudia Schiffer believes models are now too skinny to be attractive even though the German supermodel may herself be slightly underweight despite a voracious appetite and ...

Online fashion retailers clinging to the received wisdom that photos of thin models are the most effective way of selling clothes may want to think again, according to a new study examining the impact ...

That’s the question of the moment in fashion capitals across the world. Here are some of things people within the industry have been saying about the debate: New York Fashion Week came and went last ...

An ad from UK fashion brand Next has been banned because the model’s pose, styling, and camera angle made it look like she was “unhealthily thin.” In its review, initiated by a single complaint last ...