UK Vogue Editor Lashes Industry While US Vogue Editor Silent By TheImproper.com

The editor of the UK edition of Vogue magazine is the latest to fire a broadside in the debate over thick and thin in the fashion industry.

She’s joining critics who think the industry is fueling an epidemic of anorexia by demanding that models fit into “size zero” dresses.

Curiously, American Vogue Editor Anna Wintour, who is far more influential, has been silent on the issue.

But in a highly unusual letter sent to a number of top European fashion houses, UK Editor Alexandra Shulman accuses designers of making magazines hire models with “jutting bones and no breasts or hips” by supplying them with “minuscule” garments for their photo shoots.

UK Vogue is now frequently “retouching” photographs to make models look larger, according to the letter, obtained by the Times of London.

“We have now reached the point where many of the sample sizes don’t comfortably fit even the established star models,” Shulman wrote to some of the biggest names in the business including, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and fellow designers at Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and Balen-ciaga.

Her letter follows on the heels of the deaths of three models from complications relating to malnutrition, and the decision of leading fashion shows to ban size-zero models. But many top fashion industry figures do not share her point of view.

Heidi Klum, who was featured in a nude photo spread in the March 2009 issue of German GQ, was called “too fat” to be a supermodel by a top German designer and modeling agency head, and legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld dismissed her as a nobody.

German designer Wolfgang Joop said Klum, 36, was “too fat” to be a supermodel. Joop, 64, is well known in Europe and Germany and is a judge on Germany television’s Next Top Model. Klum has hosted the show for the past three seasons in Germany.

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