Sao Paulo Fashion Week imposes age limit
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A major Brazilian fashion event has moved to bar models under the age of 16, part of a national effort to increase awareness about eating disorders following the death of a 21-year-old model from anorexia last month.
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The global fashion industry is under siege from critics who want skinny models off catwalks, and with New York's fashion week in full swing the focus on models' health has shifted to the American capital of fashion.
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SEOUL -- In a time-honored practice in South Korea's corporate culture, the 38-year-old manager at an online game company took his 10-person team on after-work drinking bouts twice a week. He exhorted his subordinates to drink, including a 29-year-old graphic designer who protested that her limit was two glasses of beer.
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The spotlight on fashion runways has shifted to the young and the unknown, many of unproven talent.
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Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy   over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week,   fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less   than two weeks away.
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Agevolazioni per brasiliani residenti nel nostro Paese
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ROME, Dec 16 (Reuters Life!) - Italy's government and its fashion chiefs issued a manifesto on Saturday to crack down on the use of ultra-thin teenagers on the catwalk, requiring models to show proof of their good health or be barred from fashion shows.
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It's never too late to start a new career, even if you're 96 years old -- and the new job is modelling cosmetics.
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The parent company of Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy plans to test a new idea for a clothing chain targeting women over 35. In a statement, Gap Incorporated says it will try out its new
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Fashion has become a more democratic industry, trying to offer something for everyone. The spring styles previewed so far at New York Fashion Week have targeted pretty young things, working girls, dancing divas and, occasionally, regular women.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Got to hand to these Brazilians, they know how to stage a show, especially one made entirely of swimwear.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, vans and buses full of aspiring models brake to a stop here in front of the unmarked offices of the Daphne Agency. Coming from small towns scattered across the Brazilian countryside, the hopefuls have spent hours on the road, often...
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Milan fashion week is resisting calls for   a ban on underweight models amid a debate on super-thin girls   and eating disorders that has gripped the public but elicits   bored yawns from designers.
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The world's first ban on overly thin  models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage  among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions  at other catwalk pageants.
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Sao Paulo, Brazil -- An overcrowded balcony collapsed early yesterday inside a popular Sao Paulo nightclub, killing six people and injuring at least 117, police said.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian court on Fridaybarred the lesbian partner of the outgoing mayor of an Amazontown from trying to succeed her, citing a ban on politicaloffice passing between family members.
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Youth, attitude and gritty city glamour were the themes on the catwalk Monday as Paris fashion week opened with a spotlight on young designers.