Milan follows Madrid's lead
by Anne Metz (Subscribe to Anne Metz's posts), Posted Sep 27th 2006 at 8:06AMThis is a post
Filed under: Fashion, Runway Report
Forget about Madrid's ban on super-skinny models! Milan just passed a law that all runway models who plan to walk in the Fall 2007 shows this coming February must be accompanied by a medically certified clean bill of health. City officials say that the regulation is intended to discourage eating disorders, particularly anorexia.While I salute the city of Milan for taking a stand on this matter, I doubt that this medical certificate idea will have any impact. If a model must have a medical certfication to walk, what would prevent her from just buying one from a corrupt doctor? If anything, these medical certificates are just going to create even more corruption in the Milanese fashion industry.
What do you think? Will requiring models to have a medical certificate make any difference?
katie 10-04-2006 @ 12:50PM
its possible, I say give it a shot.
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crystal 10-04-2006 @ 1:17PM
It's certainly worth a try but probably the only way that ensure things to a better level would be to have a government doctor examine the models and their medical records but that would be a huge undertaking. So I guess this is a good first step and let's hope it helps a little.
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katie 10-04-2006 @ 1:38PM
It may help. It's worth a shot
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