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Weighing in; The latest debate over models and measurements raises the question, What size is beauty.(body mass index)(Brief article)
Byline: Sally Wadyka
In the wake of the BMI
brouhaha that erupted on and off runways this fall-starting with Madrid's ban on ultraskinny models and culminating in Jean Paul Gaultier's plus-size act of defiance-fashion insiders are left wondering how the great weight debate will affect the shape of things to come. Will last season's waifs be pushed off the catwalk by bigger beauties like Velvet d'Amour, the larger-than-life model Gaultier sent down the Parisian runway? Slim chance. "Thin is what photographers and designers are looking for," admits Cathy Gould, director of New York's Elite modeling agency. "The Cindy Crawford types are beautiful and sexy, but that's not in fashion now."
Backstage, the questions rage on: Can monitoring BMI (body-mass index) uncover an eating disorder, and what is BMI anyway? "The BMI is a really good indicator of someone being at an unhealthily low weight," says Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. The formula-weight (in pounds) divided by height (in ...
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