Campaign for Models to Gain Weight?

Anna Wintour to help underweight models - www.nypost.com

Vogue Editor-in Chief Anna Wintour has is discussing how those in the fashion industry can work with new laws to keep dangerously underweight models off the runway.

After Italy started cracking down in their efforts to stop ultra-thin models appearing in fashion shows, the fashion industry worries they will be put to blame for showcasing unhealthy appearance and lifestyle.

Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan says many models today are "pale, almost to the point of translucent, and astonishingly thin. They look positively rickety. Seeing one in a swimsuit can make you shudder. They are not sexy or even particularly pretty. How can they be when they look as though the life has been sucked out of them?"

The skinniest seem to come from Eastern Europe. Givhan names Snejana Onopka, Vlada Roslyakova and Sasha Pivovarova.

"Over a typical runway season, the same models appear so often on different runways that it is easy to become immune to how shockingly thin they are. After a while, it seems normal that a model's thighs are the same circumference as a 12-year-old's upper arm," Givhan wrote.

"If the industry does not think carefully about the current aesthetic," she warned, "what comes next could be truly ghastly.