Israel follows Spain, Italy, India and the U.S in trying to lessen eating disorders by eliminating underweight models from runways and ads. By Elizabeth Snead Model at New York Fashion Week - P ...

The fashion industry is frequently criticized for featuring underweight models in runway shows, magazines and ad campaigns. In 2010, French model Isabelle Caro died due to complications from ...

In April, the French Parliament put a law into effect banning underweight models from fashion jobs. Now, in France, a model must present proof of her body mass index when up for a gig, and her BMI ...

An advertisement for fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent that appeared in Elle UK magazine has been banned after a regulator deemed the model depicted in the ad as "unhealthily underweight." ...

The new law requires models to produce a medical report at every shoot stating that they are not malnourished by World ... Israeli law prohibits underweight fashion models. Updated: Jan. 09 ...

The Sept. 13 decision from the Madrid regional government to enforce a ban on underweight models for Madrid Fashion Week catwalks has sent shock waves through the global fashion industry and set off a ...

This underweight model is being told she's too big by the industry. ... I think it’s quite funny, because a lot of the models walking the fashion week love that I did the video. ...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli lawmakers want to tighten a ban on the employment of underweight models and on the undeclared digital slimming-down of fashion images, amid concern that the measures ...

A Danish fashion magazine has made a public apology after running an image of an underweight model in its latest issue. Even politicians weighed in. Danish Tax Minister Benny Englebrecht took to ...

Which is why, notably, the issue with the ban is not whether the model in the ad, 18-year-old Kiki Willems, is underweight or not. It's the perception that matters. In describing their rationale ...