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The editor of Vogue has accused some of the world’s leading catwalk designers of pushing ever thinner models into fashion magazines despite widespread public concern over “size zero” models and rising teenage anorexia.

Alexandra Shulman, one of the most important figures in the multi-billion-dollar fashion industry, has taken on all the largest fashion houses in a strongly worded letter sent to scores of designers in Europe and the United States. In a letter not intended for publication but seen by The Times of London, Shulman accuses designers of making magazines hire models with “jutting bones and no breasts or hips” by supplying them with “minuscule” garments for their photoshoots. Vogue is now frequently “retouching” photographs to make models look larger, she said.


Shulman's intervention was hailed as a turning point in the debate over model size