Size Zero Trend

Great news for those who don’t like seeing zero-size models on the covers of glossy magazines and catwalks! It is now Alexandra Shulman, Vogue editor, who has joined the fight against size zero.
The woman has confessed she is often forced to retouch photos of skinny models before they go the print. According to the editor designers are sending out samples of clothes which are too small for most healthy models. So, she considers it’s high time size zero trend ended.

She wrote a letter to the top designer houses informing them that Vogue readers don’t like seeing photos in the magazine or girls “with jutting bones and no breasts or hips”. Besides, she asked fashion houses to take action.

During the time I have been at Vogue, the sample sizes that models are required to war have become substantially smaller,” Shulman wrote.
We have now reached a point where many of the sample sizes don’t comfortably fit even the established star models.”
I am often having to run headshots on the cover, rather than images where you can see clothes, because my readers are uncomfortable with the size of the models when seen full length.”

The letter was sent to Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel.
If Vogue have spoken out against the use of size zero models we can hope other fashion magazines will follow the example and this ridiculous, and dangerous, trend will be put to an end finally