Australian Fashion Week To Set Weight Guidelines For Models

Australian Fashion Week is still more than a month away, but this early, its organizers are already in the process of setting up healthy weight guidelines for models so that they will be in place by the time the major fashion event starts.

According to Fashion Week head honcho Simon Lock, they just “don’t want to see young girls hurting themselves in any way”, which is why they’re setting up the guidelines in time for Fashion Week, which is scheduled from April 30 to May 4.

This latest move by the organizers comes on the heels of the Australian Medical Association’s calls for the introduction of healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) guidelines for fashion models so that eating disorders among young people might be addressed.

It is expected that the guidelines the Australian Fashion Week come up might be just as stringent as those in place in Spain and Italy, two countries which have already banned size-zero models from its catwalks.