The size zero model debate flares up at every fashion event. In London this fashion week, models will not be forced to have health checks because none of the other major fashion events would support the move.
The British Fashion Council suggested the idea last year, with 14 proposals in a report called the
Model Health Inquiry. The proposals were spurred on by the deaths of models Ana Carolina Reston, Eliana Ramos and Luisel Ramos.
The proposal was deemed impossible to police and discriminating against thin yet healthy models.
Model Eva Sanz Orio (pictured) is a prime example. Other news organisations have used photos of her to illustrate how unhealthy modelas are. Yet we know her well, and can tell you the Australian-based model and mother of one and has a healthy appetite yet remains naturally slim.
Why not put the onus for model health back on the agencies and designers who hire them? Employers don't need rigid, impossible to implement systems to make moral and caring judgements. A working set of eyes and some moral fibre, not an unworkable code of conduct, is all that's needed to determine that the person they're hiring is seriously unwell.