The following are links to three articles regarding three countries that took action against overly thin models. Those countries are Spain, France and Italy, all of which are among main countries of world’s top fashion. The regulations will not only help to control extreme expectations from these models, they will also help ordinary woman to feel better about themselves. Seeing unhealthy, thin models and actresses over and over changes the perception about what is normal. As we can find in the article, some of the top designers and professionals in the fashion industry agree with the fact that it has gone too far and that these models don’t look like women anymore and they would prefer the change themselves. These countries agreed to take a step towards the change especially after several cases of death of models during recent years. However we can find out in these articles that some countries still refuse to accept this and continue to use these models without any regulations.
1 http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/13/spain.models/index.html
2 http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/health/March-April-08/French-Fashion-Industry-Joins-Move-to-Ban-Extremely-Thin-Models.html
3 http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/health/March-April-08/French-Fashion-Industry-Joins-Move-to-Ban-Extremely-Thin-Models.html