WOMEN IN REVOLT

The editor of Vogue has accused designers of forcing magazines to hire skinnier models to fit the clothes they make. Alexandra Shulman has taken on the world's top fashion houses claiming the clothes they make have become 'substantially smaller'.She says many of the garments sent out to magazines before photo-shoots are so small they do not even fit the star models.In a strongly-worded letter not intended for publication, she said she had been forced to hire girls 'with jutting bones and no breasts or hips' simply so they could get into the garments.She said Vogue magazine was now regularly retouching photographs to make models look bigger and healthier.«We have now reached a point where many of the sample sizes don't comfortably fit even the established star models,' read the letter, which was sent to the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Prada and Versace.

-Daily Mail
June 13 2009