Fashion catalogue pulled over thin models
August 28, 2008
wow,now that´s brave!
Canwest News ServiceQue. retailer La Maison Simons pulled its junior women’s fashion catalogue from teh market after complaints the modesl were too thin.
MONTREAL – A decision by retailer La Maison Simons to denounce its own fashion catalogue for using too-thin models and withdraw it from the marketplace was hailed by Quebec’s health minister and an eating-disorder expert.
On the heels of complaints about a junior women’s fashion catalogue, company president Peter Simons said he pulled the catalogue in a bid to remove images from the public domain that are “unsuitable” and don’t align with his company’s values.
The 36-page colour catalogue — with a print run of about 450,000 — features Mr. Simons’ Twik brand and photographs of thin, young women, who display more bone than flesh.
Those images are “destructive to a more vulnerable portion of the population which is exposed to anorexia,” Mr. Simons told Canwest News Service from his office in Quebec City.
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