Milan follows Madrid's lead

by Anne Metz (Subscribe to Anne Metz's posts)
Posted Sep 27th 2006 at 8:06AM

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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Filed under: Fashion, Fashion Week
Tags: anorexia, BMI, Madrid, Milan, model ban, ModelBan, models

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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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