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Finger-pointing is not a recognized weight-loss exercise. But you wouldn't know it from the vigor with which they do it in the fashion industry. Particularly when the subject of skinny models comes up. And recently it has come up a lot, what with one malnourished South American model dying when she stepped off the runway, the Madrid fashion shows barring models who are too thin, and the scary walking chopsticks who came down the runway in New York City this month...
...Madrid move, which was to bar from the runway any model who fell below a certain weight, may have been simply a genius marketing exercise. (Hands up, any-one who knew Madrid even had a fashion week.) But it had a ripple effect. Edinburgh, the biggest fashion center in all of ... Scotland, announced it would do the same for its fashion shows. The mayor of Milan, where the shows are this week, said she wouldn't be opposed to having that restriction in her city. No one took her up on it. Ripple effects don't have much...
Pretty much everyone--everyone not directly involved in the business of clothing, that is--agrees that something has to be done about the waning weight of models. Twenty years ago, the average model was a size 8; today she's a size 0. It's easy to explain why models are so skinny--because of their strict dietary regimen of nicotine, arugula and rock-star boyfriends. But nobody can explain why they have to be that...
CHAVEZ: Bush wanted Iraq's oil, and I believe he wants Venezuela's oil. The blame for high oil prices lies in the consumer model of the U.S. Its reckless oil consumption is a form of suicide...
Meyer's business model intentionally inverts classic capitalist priorities. He believes that to be successful you must first meet the needs of employees, then guests, followed by the community, suppliers and finally investors, in that order. "If you are devoted to your staff and can promise them much more than a paycheck, something to believe in," he says, "you will then get the best service for customers, which will in the long run provide the best return to your investors...