British Fashion Council (BFC) announces the upcoming London Fashion Week event must be free from the use of underage models. In addition, strict selection was also held to ensure all models are in good health and not suffering from eating disorders.Selection for the model to be in action on the catwalk that has also been made by Brazil, Spain, France, and Italy, following the model of anorexia increased from year to year, which was then followed by New York. Previously, the UK still leave the decision on model selection designer concerned. BFC pressure obtained from the observer fashion world and the media eventually make the organization issuing the regulation.
London Fashion Week organizers provide a much more stringent regulations concerning health, namely the problem of age, where models under 16 years should not be in action on the catwalk. For that, BFC meetings with agencies across the UK model and ask them to do a more thorough monitoring of the model. One of them, by conducting medical and psychological examination.
Currently, more than 40 percent of the models in the UK have eating disorders. Far more than three percent figure outside the profession anorexic models. Concerned with the problem, BFC, hopes to combat problem eating patterns of the model through medical tests, mentoring programs, as well as workshops.
Another recommendation is owned BFC is investigating the background of the model, including crime, drug abuse, and the environment in which they grow is suspected as one cause of the problem of anorexia.