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Five skinny models kicked out of Spain’s Cibeles
1:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Fashion|Health|Spain|Women · 5 Comments
12 Feb 2007
Spain’s Cibeles Fashion Show, the country’s most important fashion industry event, wasn’t joking when it said it wouldn’t accept ultra-skinny models on its runways. The policy was instated this year to ensure that tragedies like those happening among Latina models in South America wouldn’t repeat themselves in Spain, and today the decision was put into action as Cibeles rejected five of its 69 models for “extreme thinness”:
The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, decided in September 2005 not to allow women below a body mass to height ratio of 18 to take part.
Spain changes sizes to help women’s health
5:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health|Spain · 1 Comment
25 Jan 2007
Something great is going on in Spain: first the country’s most illustrious fashion show, Pasarela Cibeles banned ultra skinny models from the runways in an attempt to adjust the perception that being impossibly skinny is something women should aspire to. Now, the Spanish government is going a step further by requiring clothes companies to change the sizing system on clothes to better women’s health and self-esteem:
The program, designed by the Health Ministry, will also prevent those companies from using window displays featuring clothes smaller than a European size 38 (10 in Britain, 8 in the United States). They will have five years to phase in the change.
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