Weight debate overshadows London's fashion stars
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London Fashion Week opened for the first full day of shows on Monday but attention remained more on the body shape of the models than the clothes they were wearing.
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Female fashion models and many  celebrities are "too thin," say four in every five consumers  from around the world, a new online survey showed on Thursday.
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Maybe it was the rain that got everyone a little down, but celebrities attending New York Fashion Week on Thursday seemed to hit on a common theme: Beauty takes work.
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London celebrated the opening weekend of  its fashion week with greater fanfare and more international  influence than ever filling its runways with spectacle and its  front rows with stars.
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A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition Â an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin.
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Fashion Wire Daily - We witnessed an unlikely meeting of influences in Emma Cook's collection shown Monday afternoon in London, everything from Cow Gal frills and posh punk attitude to toy soldierettes and twisted groupies, but the net result was a punchy series of clothes that had gall and audacity.
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Fearing that young models strutting down the runways in New York City are too skinny, a state lawmaker proposes that weight standards be established for the fashion and entertainment industries.
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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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They did brash, they did bold, but designers at the latest London Fashion Week also produced a stunning array of wearable designs for spring and summer of 2005.
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A panel set up by the British Fashion Council to investigate health problems among models today ruled out mandatory weight checks but said girls under 16 should not be on the catwalk.
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Many young women with a healthy body size worry about how they look, a BBC survey suggests.
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London Fashion Week sashayed into action on Monday with a clutch of feted young designers promising to boost its star status on the industry's map.
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Renee Zellweger has hit back at fears she employs extreme methods to shed weight following her turn as Bridget Jones. The Hollywood actress was required to pile on pounds for her role as the thirty-something
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The world's first ban on overly thin  models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage  among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions  at other venues.
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The pop star with the malfunctioning wardrobe has lost weight but not her blunt lyrics.
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A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition Â an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin. "I was a little bit shocked," Miss England Georgia Horsley said Friday in an interview on NBC's "Today" show.
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Beauty and perfection don't come cheap during fashion week.