Madrid enforces skinny models ban
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Spain's top fashion show kicked off on   Monday after causing a storm with its ban on skinny models and   one well-known designer said he had to replace all the girls in   his catwalk line-up.
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Five models were declared too thin for  the catwalk at this week's international designer show in  Madrid, a doctor in charge of vetting them said on Sunday.
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Size zero models in town for London Fashion Week now have one less excuse to skip a meal.
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Politicians in Spain slammed the use of models to be stand-in ball girls for the Madrid Masters. The 19 to 28-year-olds, who are likely to be in action when Tim Henman plays tomorrow, were drafted in to replace
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ARTEIXO, Spain  - There are no celebrities in the studios of Spanish fashion chain Zara, just hundreds of twenty-something designers copying catwalk lines faster than their labels can sell them.
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The Spanish Parliament bans smoking in its corridors ahead of government plans for a smoking ban in all working places.
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The fine, which was imposed in June but only emerged on Wednesday night, threatens further to undermine relations between Washington and Madrid, which are already at a low ebb after the new Spanish government's ...
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Spanish fashion stores are bringing in bigger mannequins and changing their clothes sizes to reduce body image worries. Send us your views.
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Britain's Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell   urged organizers of London's Fashion Week on Saturday to ban   "stick-thin" models from its catwalks.
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With hundreds of twiggy models  strutting the catwalks at New York&#39;s Fashion Week that ended on  Wednesday, EvansLondon hopes to clothe the women fashion tends  to overlook -- those who wear larger sizes.
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The man who cleans backstage at New York's fashion week says there is a problem with the claims of stick-thin models that they are naturally skinny.
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Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy   over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week,   fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less   than two weeks away.
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Milan is to have a code of conduct to protect young models vulnerable to anorexia and exploitation.
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The Madrid council has condemned the  racist behavior of fans that marred Wednesday's friendly  between Spain and England and said that the events should not  be allowed to harm the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
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Some women's advocacy groups are complaining about a magazine spread in which eight female ministers in the Spanish government &#151; which has vowed to fight sexual discrimination &#151; pose like fashion models in designer clothes.
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Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy  over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week,  fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less  than two weeks away.
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ATHENS, Greece - The local issue of Playboy remained on newsstands Friday, after a judge rejected a request for a temporary injunction filed by Athens Games' organizers over the magazine's use of Olympic symbols in a photo spread.    Athens organizers had filed an injunction against the magazine after its latest issue - dedicated to the games - showed nude women in photographs with the five Olympic rings...