Madrid is holding a major fashion show beginning today called the Pasarela Cibeles. But excessively skinny fashion models will be barred from the show for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls.
Madrid’s regional government is helping to finance the Pasarela Cibeles and it has vetoed around a third of the models who took part in last year’s show because they don’t weigh enough.
The authorities collaborated with a Spanish health organization to come up with a minumum body mass index — a kind of height-weight ratio — of 18 for the models. To give an idea of what this means, a person who is 165cm tall and weighs 55kg would have a body mass index of 20.
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Spanish daily ABC said it was the first time such restrictions had been put on a fashion show, although a recent wedding dress show in Barcelona banned fashion models who wore a dress size below a European 38 (British size 10, US size eight or 10).
Several models at last year’s show claimed their careers would be threatened if they put on weight.
Organizers said they wanted to “help ensure public opinion does not associate fashion, and fashion shows in particular, with an increase in anorexia, a disease which, along with bulimia, is considered ... a mental and behavioral problem.”
The show will take place from September 18-22.
(AFP)
馬德里即日起舉辦一場名為「Pasarela Cibeles」的重大時裝盛宴,不過唯恐對西班牙青少女傳達出錯誤訊息,太瘦的模特兒將被禁止參加。
馬德里地方政府是時裝展的資助者之一,且以體重過輕為由,回絕約三分之一去年參展過的模特兒。
相關單位與西班牙一健康組織合作,對模特兒提出身體質量指數最低十八的要求(一項身高和體重的比例)。在這項比例的概念下,身高一百六十五公分、體重五十五公斤的人,身體質量指數為二十。
西班牙阿貝塞日報表示,時裝展祭出這項規定還是頭一遭,不過最近在巴塞隆納舉行的婚紗展,也禁止洋裝尺寸小於歐洲尺寸三十八(英國尺寸十、美國尺寸八或十)的時裝模特兒參加。
幾名去年參展的模特兒宣稱,體重若增加將危及事業。
組織成員表示,他們要「在厭食症及暴食症案例增加的同時,協助確保公眾意見和時尚無關,尤其與時裝秀無關。這兩種疾病被認為是心理和行為問題」。
時裝展的時間從九月十八日至二十二日。
(法新社╱翻譯︰鄭湘儀)
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