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"At the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Health Initiative, I had the thrill of seeing Anna Wintour for the first time (on only the second day of my internship). I immediately noticed...\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest\n\nOnce the panel discussion began, Michael Kors reflected on the January 2007 health initiative to increase awareness of eating disorders in the modeling industry. He admitted that \"models are not average people, but rare birds --they are taller, thinner, with more fabulous features.\" However, he urged his colleagues to pay attention to the recent CFDA health guidelines, by watching out for \"scarily skinny situations\" and ensuring that if a model looks sick, she gets the proper help (from doctors, therapists, and nutritionists) and is not booked for more runway shows or photo shoots.\n\nI enjoyed most of what Michael Kors had to say, especially when he recommended that designers should \"stay away from childlike bodies, unless you're making clothes for children.\" I remember poring over Louis Vuitton and Prada ads as a young teenager and fixating on the models' pre-pubescent bodies. At that time, I didn't fully understand that many models are only fifteen or sixteen years old (without the bodies of grown women), and many of them torture themselves to plummet to extreme levels of thinness."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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