Models’ health is the talk of fashion

Fashion bosses from Paris, Milan, New York and London have agreed to take part in a debate on how to address eating disorders after some countries took measures to ban ultra-skinny models from their catwalks, according to French fashion’s governing body.

“It is a serious problem to which one cannot be insensitive,” the Chambre Syndicale said in a statement Friday. “All the bodies concerned have to participate in terms of information.”

Leaders from the Chambre Syndicale, Italy’s Camera Nazionale della Moda, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the British Fashion Council met this week on the sidelines of Paris couture week to discuss their 2008 calendar and the health debate.

They agreed to take part in a debate on the delicate issue, the statement said without elaborating. Nothing further was decided.