Paris, New York, Milan Force London to Renege on Model Health Certificate Requirement August 13, 2008 11:14 am >> A lot of attention has been placed lately on increasing model diversity, but what about that other troubled topic — model weight?
Today, the British Fashion Council announced that their initiative to ban "size zero" models from the London catwalks next month has been abandoned after the other three major fashion capitals refused to follow suit.
The plan was to require models to obtain a doctor's certificate proving they were in good health, but the Chambre Syndicale in Paris thought imposing model health certificates lay outside their realm, the Camera Nazionale della Moda in Milan preferred self-regulation, and according to Steven Kolb, executive director of New York's CFDA:
We looked at things like doctor’s certification and body mass index and decided that, for us, it wasn’t the appropriate recommendation.
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