The Weight Debate

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lol ... it's still terrible lmao Laughing

(they think it's journalism lol)

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eeek I was right!

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Rina Bovrisse, a senior retail manager at Prada Japan, also alleges that the chief executive wanted her to change her hairstyle and lose weight in order to fit into the company.

Ms Bovrisse, who oversaw 500 staff in 40 stores across Japan, has launched a discrimination and harassment case against the Italian fashion label in Tokyo's industrial tribunal courts.

Her allegations focus on an incident in May last year when she claims that Davide Sesia, the CEO of Prada Japan, allegedly asked her to "eliminate" around 15 managerial staff he described as "old, fat, ugly, disgusting or not having the Prada look," following a tour of 40 stores.

Immediately after his demands, human resources reportedly notified 13 members of staff with devotional transfer orders due to poor sales, according to Ms Bovrisse, who disclosed details of the case in a Japan Times interview.

Ms Bovrisse alleges that she herself was later summoned to a meeting and informed that Mr Sesia reportedly wanted her to "change her hairstyle, to lose weight" because he was "ashamed of Ms Bovrisse's ugliness, so he doesn't want visitors from Italy to see her".

Ms Bovrisse, who has 18 years experience working in the international fashion industry, was placed on involuntary leave last November and launched her legal case the following month.

Describing why she had launched the claim, Ms Bovrisse said: "My responsibility is to protect hard-working women and make sure their working environment is safe."

A spokeswoman at Prada's Tokyo headquarters told The Daily Telegraph that the company was currently unable to comment.

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WTF IS THIS THE FUCKING 40'S ... i swear to god, trust me on this. if my my boss, male boss esp, ever told me to loose weight, get a new haircut ... i'd floor him.

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lolz
So rood. So Prada.

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Miuccia is no spring chicken and i want to see a picture of this sorry son of a bitch. Mad

and fyi, if he told me to sack 14 folks for looking bad ... i'd floor him then too.

no joke ... i would go to prison for this Vicomte de Valmont

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you go gurl! Cool

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you know i would lol Laughing

thats the tragedy ... i'm that mental Laughing

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You're just a fighter for good, a protector of humanity.

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I fight for evil too ... i'm on the night watch.

please someone get that joke, please.

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heartclearly wrote:

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After many years of international criticism over the apparent unhealthiness of the skinny models chosen to walk the runways at the fashion world's most elite shows in New York, Milan, and Paris, designers seem to finally be coming around to the idea of diversity in who models their clothes. While the ethnic diversity barrier has been eroding for some time now, it seems a diversity of body types has had an even tougher time making it into the modeling world.

This week, several models known for their Victoria's Secret modeling -- most of whom have curvier figures than traditional catwalk models -- were welcome on the Paris Fashion Week runway for the first time. The ever-so-slightly fuller-figured women were shown modeling the latest clothes for fall.

Adriana Lima walked the runway for the first time since giving birth to her daughter in November. The model shared the catwalk with fellow Victoria's Secret regular Alessandra Ambrosio. While the fact that two curvy beauties would appear in a fashion show is remarkable in and of itself, Lima and Ambrosio are also 28 years old -- an age that spells retirement for most high-fashion models.

And if the presence of two late-20s models didn't make enough of a statement about the changing standards of Europe's fashion weeks, Elle Macpherson also walked the runways this week -- at the ripe age of 46.

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Speaking to reporters backstage at his Louis Vuitton show in Paris on Wednesday, designer Marc Jacobs made it clear that the new look of fashion week wasn't a fluke: "Designers are always talking about how they design for women, and then you look at our runways and there [are] no girls over 20. This time, I set out to cast a variety of sexy women -- younger, older, thin, voluptuous, from every ethnic background."

The appearance of curvy models comes after some fashion shows instituted rules requiring models to eat before they step onto the runway. The nutritional requirements began to take effect after a super-thin model died in 2006, shortly after stepping off a South American fashion-show stage.

Last month, fashion watchers also got a look at the fleshier trend when another model known for her curvy body, Miranda Kerr, 26, modeled for Prada at Milan's fashion week.

The newly curvy look comes just six months after designer Karl Lagerfeld, in response to criticism over skinny models at European fashion weeks, told reporters: "Nobody wants to see round women."

Some Yahoo Blogger. A bit biased, I believe, or not fully facing the truth.