London Fashion Week
- Filed under: Alternative Lifestyle, Famous, Fashion, Fashion Week, Fendi, kissfendi
- Date: Aug 23,2008
Eleni Renton, the founder of Quintessentially Models, has called for grants to be pulled from next month’s event, following the British Fashion Council’s (BFC) decision to abandon plans for compulsory health checks for models.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Miss Renton, the founder of the first self-styled “ethical” modelling agency - described the BFC’s decision as “weak” and “embarrassing” and called on the London Development Agency (LDA) to withdraw its £4.5 million funding for the event.
“I am sorely disappointed by the decision, it was very weak of the BFC,” said Miss Renton. “I think the LDA should pull its funding for London Fashion Week. It is totally wrong that public money is funding something that is clearly unhealthy and I have written to the LDA to tell them this.
“Introducing those health checks would have helped in tackling the size zero issue - I find it embarrassing that we are not even giving it a go. Unless the recommendations are actually enforced, they are just gimmicky sound bites.”
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