NEWS: Jean Paul Gaultier Responds to the 'Size-Zero' Model Debate

CELEB: Jean Paul Gaultier Responds to the 'Size-Zero' Model Debate

Ultra-thin models sparked debate over size-zero models walking the runways after an emaciated model dropped dead during Uruguay’s fashion week. Luisel Ramos refused to eat for days, eventually collapsing backstage from heart failure.

Controversy brewed in the fashion industry following Ramos’ death. While many agreed the trend of super-skinny models may be dangerous, fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld didn’t see the problem.

Meanwhile, at his 30th Anniversary show in Paris this week, Jean Paul Gaultier made his own statement concerning size-zero models; he sent a size-twenty model in black lingerie down the runway. While she was clearly larger than the rest of the women on the runway, she pulled it off perfectly.

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Why does it always have to be black or white?

if you can't say something nice...

How many pounds is 9 or 7 stone?

1 stone = 14 pounds.

so, she went from around 126 pounds to around 98 pounds.

I love Jean Paul Gaultier! I always think they should have regular sized people on the catwalk!

What a badass. Props to Gaultier and double props to the model!

Wow - I am 5'8" and I am a size 0.... I can't imagine being 5'9" and her final weight being 98 pounds - that's amazing that she was even able to be moving around much less walking the runway!!!! That is a little over the top - but I know there is pressure to be thin within the modeling industry - no matter what the newspapers say.

Everyone should just chill and just have a sandwich!

I would think that a 5'9" woman at 126 lbs would be considered thin.

should be, most definitely.

Yeah but I have a ?, what the hell are skinny bones? I thought bones are typically the same. Another fashion no no.

Karl Lagerfeld is one quality poster boy for everything that is good about the fashion industry, thank God he is alive and healthy and creative and succesful, he surely deserves everything good that happens to him

i think that it is a refernece to bone density, which can make a difference in weight, but not by very much, except in extreme cases.

skinny bones?

I would assume "skinny bones" would refer to having a small frame - narrow shoulders and hips, etc.

Who, in their right mind, considers that sexy?

one fatty. nice way to put it.

not nice at all

Really..who would believe this to be real...Photoshopped for sure...and badly at that...

Let's just replicate Gisele...that would make things much easier...on the eyes...

see to me, her arms look freakishly thin.

Really? I don't see ribs poking through...or sunken facial features. Isn't it quite possible that some people are naturally thin without being unhealthy?



Snow is thin...but I challenge anyone to explain to me how her appearance is unhealthy. She has defined curves & shape. Thin isn't automatically bad.