Wednesday 20 January 2010

"people, what is this, is this girl ill?"

The above quote is from a fashionista sitting in the front row of one of São Paulo Fashion Week's runway shows.

(image via FolhaOnline)

An article on Folha de São Paulo today states that the models currently appearing in São Paulo Fashion Week are, in average, 18 years of age. And their Body Mass Index (BMI) is equivalent to that of 9 year old girls.

The full article can be found here (in Portuguese, of course).

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