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Age no barrier for China's senior catwalk models

Wearing a bright floral ensemble with her short hair dyed blonde, Chinese model Ma Yinhong struts a Shanghai catwalk with a style and swagger that belie her 56 years. She made her modelling debut just two years ago and is already in demand, working for leading fashion brands such as Dolce & Gabbana. Ma is one of a growing number of older models...

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Video: Kaia Gerber 2018 Runway compilation

Take a look at some of Kaia Gerber's runway moments from this past year. Source:A FASHION, YouTube.

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Video: Bella Hadid's 2018 Runway compilation

Take a look at some of Bella Hadid's runway moments from this past year. Source:A FASHION, YouTube.

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Video: Yasmin Wijnaldum 2018 runway compilation

Take a look at some of Yasmin Wijnaldum's runway moments from this past year. Source:A FASHION, YouTube.

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NYFW Gets Private Changing Rooms For Models

For anyone who has ever been backstage after a fashion show, it’s not an unfamiliar sight to see a model change out of their runway looks and into their own clothes—at moments with little or nothing on at all, surrounded by photographers and others mulling about. In line with CFDA’s Initiative for Health, Safety, and Diversity, CFDA made a major...

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Video: In Discussion With: CFDA's Steven Kolb

As the industry wrestles with big questions, the Council of Fashion Designers of America has often been looked to as something of a professed think tank for American fashion. Source: FORD Models, YouTube.

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Asos embraces body diversity by using a broad range of models

London - British fashion retailer Asos has been applauded for using a wider range of models with different body types to showcase its latest collection. The online retailer, popular among millennials, has expanded its current product shots to include models of various sizes wearing the same garment, rather than just one in a bid to help...

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French fashion giants LVMH & Kering ban ultra-thin models

A host of French-owned fashion labels spanning Christian Dior to Saint Laurent pledged Wednesday to ban ultra-thin models from their advertising and catwalk shows following criticism that the industry encourages anorexia. French holding companies LVMH and Kering, which own dozens of top brands between them, unveiled a charter "to ensure the...

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Why female models top the catwalk cash charts

It is a rare exception to the rule: the gender salary gap in the fashion industry means female models are paid more than their male counterparts for the same job. None of the dozens of buffed and toned men parading at the latest Milan menswear shows since Friday can dream of earning anything like female catwalk stars, or of equivalent fame....

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France cracks down on unnaturally thin models

Super-thin models and secretly airbrushed photoshoots will soon be a thing of the past in fashion hub France, as authorities passed measures to protect young people from the dangers of anorexia. A new law entered into force on Saturday which compels all models operating in France to provide a doctor's note certifying that their Body Mass Index...

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The life of a jobbing model at New York Fashion Week

Three young models looking to make their mark at New York fashion week explain what it takes to be a jobbing model in the frenzied world of shows and castings. Krystall Schott, 21, from Los Angeles, Bibi Sharipova, 22, from Kazakhstan who speaks a little English and Arina Lubiteleva, 19, from Ukraine who prefers to speak Russian are impossibly...

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Why top runway fashion models never smile

They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? "You don't smile. It is just not done," said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born Londoner has...