Healthy weight guidelines for models to be introduced in Australia
According to the Herald Sun, organizers of Australian Fashion Week are moving to introduce healthy weight guidelines for models. Fashion week boss Simon Lock said the industry had approached the issue responsibly.
“We don't want to see young girls hurting themselves in any way,” he told ABC TV.
The guidelines, similar to those existing in Spain and Italy, should be in place in time for next month's Australian Fashion Week, from April 30 to May 4. The move coincides with Australian Medical Association (AMA) calls on the Federal Government to introduce healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) guideline for fashion models to address eating disorders among young people, Herald Sun informs.
BMI is a measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height. The debate over waif-thin models and body image intensified last year when the organizers of the Madrid fashion week banned models with a BMI of less than 18. According to the scale, people are considered underweight if they have a BMI below 18.5.
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