by 2 Cylivers
The Fashion Industry seems to have suddenly woken up to the dangerous effects that anorexia and bulimia could have on their models. The Madrid Fashion Week organizers caused a stir recently by banning models with a body mass index (BMI) below 18 from participating on the catwalk. The London and the Milan Fashion officials had reportedly rejected calls to apply the BM index to their living mannequins. France’s health ministry is said to have set up a working group to study body image but haven’t followed suit, however. That brings us to the core of the matter.
Is BMI a determinant for health or weight? One wonders. It is also said that BMI cannot distinguish between fat and muscle. Is it unhealthy and setting a bad precedent to impose such a ban? Or was it the right the thing to do, considering that these standards subsequently become hot trends. Several questions have been tossed up for debate.
If you take the positive side of the ban, it seems that this will help young women who starve themselves into ``all skin and bone’’, recover. It will also send a message down to all the other youth who aspire to walk the ramp that don’t have to diet until they look scrawny and sickly. A large section of the fashion world is relieved that the ban will prevent `the skeletons doing their thing down the boulevard’ from destroying their bodies.
But one cannot resolve the health problems of the women world by imposing such a ban, won’t you agree? Nevertheless, it is a forward move and will only help drum sense into the higher-ups, and in `just the right proportion’.
Comments
- kkirk, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:00 AM PDT said:
I agree. Anorexic and bulemic models are sending the wrong message across to the young girls of this country!!
