Good on Simons — and good on YOU, general public.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Has this ever happened before?
Quebec clothing chain Simons has pulled its newest catalogue after getting hundreds of complaints that the models in it were too thin. The genesis of the complaints may have been a story about the catalogue (and complaints) on Radio-Canada (Canada’s French-language national broadcaster) about a week ago.
“Models are too thin!” is not an uncommon refrain in the media; in Spain, models with a BMI under 18 are banned from modelling. The death of models from Uruguay and Brazil in 2006 seems to have sparked the general growing awareness of models as unhealthy (and unhealthy influences); this is, however, possibly the first time that a major retailer has recalled a catalogue due to public outcry over its models being too thin.