Britain’s top model Kate Moss has accepted that she is too thin and has laid the blame firmly at the door of the fashion industry.
LONDON: Britain’s top model Kate Moss has accepted that she is too thin and has laid the blame firmly at the door of the fashion industry.
“I didn’t eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You’d be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane and food would be disgusting you couldn’t eat it. You go to a show and there’s no food at all…I remember standing up in the bath one day and …I was so thin!” Kate Moss tells Interview magazine in their next issue.
Moss is the latest in the growing number of high-profile models who are admitting they are too thin. “I was never anorexic, but I remember thinking I don’t want to be this skinny,” adds Moss. Model Karen Elson has also accused the fashion industry of encouraging models to be unhealthily thin.
“I remember I came back from a job in Paris and the stylist said to me ‘have you been eating too many croissants’,” said Elson.
Elson has admitted in the past to not eating, being bulimic and taking laxatives to remain thin.
“Fashion is obsessed with finding young beautiful and vulnerable girls, bringing them into the fashion world, worshipping them but suddenly dropping them like a stone when they hit puberty and grow boobs and hips,” she told The Guardian.
Despite criticism and efforts to change the rules the fashion industry has not cleaned up its act not to demand over thin models.
During the London Fashion Week last year a committee called the Model Health Inquiry was formed to help improve the wellbeing of models. Focusing on the lack of food at shows they set up a Model Sanctuary which gave models nutritional advice.
But only last week plans for a model health certificate were rejected by New York, Milan and Paris. The certificates would be given to each model by a doctor to show that they were ‘fit to work’, and these would have to be produced at the shows.
“The modelling industry has united against the certificates,” said Hilary Riva, chief executive of the British Fashion Council. “We therefore call on model agents to find a workable solution, or an alternative, and set best practice for the modelling industry,” she added.
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