Seam Ripper
M.J. Prest | February 2010
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- The Spanish government has voted to ban beauty commercials from airing on television after 10 p.m. in an effort to slow eating disorders from running rampant among young women.
- Robin Givhan, a respected fashion columnist for The Washington Post, offered her frank thoughts on the fashion industry’s thinness obsession.
- Meanwhile, some plus-size fashion bloggers are less than pleased at certain magazines’ “token” inclusion of plus models like Lizzi Miller.
- Ralph Lauren still hasn’t recovered from the disastrous PR fallout after over-retouching one of its print advertising models.
- Model-under-fire Coco Rocha may wear a size 4 in clothing but her articulate essay on weight criticism in the modeling world was the elephant in the room at New York Fashion Week.

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