The gw panel

Damian D’Costa
DJ
The death of Luisel Ramos during Uruguay’s fashion week has caused a growing debate over stick-thin models on the catwalk as it has been revealed that she had been fasting for days.

Madrid putting a ban on size zero girls parading on the catwalk is an action that should’ve taken place a long time ago.
The pressures on models that are wrapped in the professional world of modeling can only lead them to starvation and a fatality as there is no other way out for them if they want to survive in the field. Ironically, it portrays a “cool” message that less is more, which is definitely not the case!

George Collins
Commercial Diver
The fashion industry has used thin models for at least 40 years; trust the ever-vigilant Spanish to spot it first! As the world slumps into obesity, yesterday’s slim becomes today’s seriously underweight. Are models forced to become dangerously thin, or does the job naturally attract thin women? Common sense should prevail here, not more nonsense politically-correct legislation.
How, in our age of equal rights to all, can a woman be barred from working because she is too thin? This would be totally unacceptable in any other industry. As for influencing young girls, does that mean we should expect a tidal wave of Angelina Jolie look-alikes in the next 10 to 15 years?

Dr E Krishnan
ENT Consultant
I feel there should  not  be  any  blanket  ban  on  skinny models. There are designs that fit a body that is thin like the famous fashion designer Armani’s clothes. All women cannot be thin. As Giuseppe Miroglio said: “A woman shouldn’t be skinny or fat. She should be the size that is natural to her. Women are all different, but all women can be beautiful.”
God has not made all people equal.
A woman’s beauty can be enhanced by the clothes she wears and how she carries herself.
After all, to quote Shakespeare, “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”.