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The skinny on weight preference

Filed under: Runway Trends, Style in the News

We all know that the fashion industry prefers skinny models to fuller figured ones, but do you ever wonder how the rest of the population feels about body size? Well, one new survey conducted for the German magazine Revue suggests that both men and women overwhelmingly prefer fuller figures to the waif look. The poll found that 77% of women and 86% of men find curvaceous bodies more appealing than skinnier versions. When asked to compare photographs of a well-known German actress with a fleshier figure to that of Kate Moss, the pollsters found that only 14% of men and 23% of women sided with the skinny supermodel.

Do you agree with this study? Is a fuller figure better than the waif look?

Write in and tell us.

Milan follows Madrid's lead

Filed under: Runway Trends

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?

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