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The organizers of the Pasarela Cibeles, Spain’s biggest yearly fashion show, told five out of 69 models they were too thin to participate this year. In September 2005, the show had decided not to permit women whose body mass to height ratio was less than 18 percent to be in shows.

According to AP, Dr. Susana Monereo, of Madrid Getafe hospital’s endocrinology and nutrition department, said three of the five models who were rejected were not spanish.

Monereo was responsible for assessing the models along with two other doctors.

She said one model who was told she could not take part had a ratio of 16, the equivalent of being 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing under 110 pounds.

Leonor Perez Pita, director of Pasarela Cibeles, said the models’ low weights may have been due to their hectic work schedules - two had been in 25 shows in New York before they went to Madrid.

“It could be that they lost weight during that period,” Pita said.

But no excuses were allowed - Pita said Madrid’s show intended to send a message of “health and beauty.”

“Five hundred people will see them here, but through television it’ll make it six million, and a young girl may think it’s a definition of beauty and may even make herself ill as a result,” Pita said.

H/T Vitabeat

GOOD for them, I say! I would love to see some healthy women on the catwalks!

Marc Jacobs always claims he has no real ambition beyond making beautiful clothes for the moment, and because he demonstrates this on a fairly regular basis, we must assume his thinking is as simple as that.

Yet in his last three shows he has attempted to go beyond the temporal limits of the runway and give clothes the emotional charge of a film or a painting. Other designers create elaborate sets in which to project a mood or an atmosphere; Alexander McQueen and John Galliano come first to mind. But often you feel that the set exists mainly to get good pictures to coerce an emotion out of you that is not readily apparent in the clothes. It has no real value. ~ New York Times

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