Working in an industry built on child labour and exploitation, it's little wonder models have finally unionised
Model abuse – it sounds like a joke. What exactly do models need to be protected from? The clothes, perhaps, but that is another column, and less important. I don't mind the clothes; the clothes can't weep. With New York fashion week under way, two events – a documentary and a movement – detail the punishment of the model.
The documentary is Girl Model by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin. It is about sick people and it exemplifies the industry. It tells the story of Nadya Vall, a 13-year-old model from Siberia, who is scouted and sent to Tokyo to look for work – plucked from one wasteland, set down in another. Nadya is so young she wears a Teletubbies T-shirt and, like a child in a fairytale, falls into the hands of monsters. One is Tigran,...
Model abuse – it sounds like a joke. What exactly do models need to be protected from? The clothes, perhaps, but that is another column, and less important. I don't mind the clothes; the clothes can't weep. With New York fashion week under way, two events – a documentary and a movement – detail the punishment of the model.
The documentary is Girl Model by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin. It is about sick people and it exemplifies the industry. It tells the story of Nadya Vall, a 13-year-old model from Siberia, who is scouted and sent to Tokyo to look for work – plucked from one wasteland, set down in another. Nadya is so young she wears a Teletubbies T-shirt and, like a child in a fairytale, falls into the hands of monsters. One is Tigran,...
- 2/14/2012
- by Tanya Gold
- The Guardian - Film News
In an industry in which lean and tall are highly regarded, models are often seen looking extremely skinny and frail.
At a recent runway show for Milan's Fashion Week, model Alaina Zimmer turned some heads and caused quite a stir wearing a low-cut black Gianfranco Ferrè dress, revealing her emaciated skin-and-bones torso.
In order to keep models from losing too much weight, Milan famously banned the overly thin; requiring a body mass index of 18.5. Not...
At a recent runway show for Milan's Fashion Week, model Alaina Zimmer turned some heads and caused quite a stir wearing a low-cut black Gianfranco Ferrè dress, revealing her emaciated skin-and-bones torso.
In order to keep models from losing too much weight, Milan famously banned the overly thin; requiring a body mass index of 18.5. Not...
- 9/28/2011
- Extra
The suicide of Marie Caro raises troubling questions about this killer
How terrible that Marie Caro has committed suicide out of "guilt". She was the mother of Isabelle Caro, the French anorexic model, who posed naked, bones jutting, skin stretched, eyes sunken pools of horror, for the 2007 "No Anorexia" campaign. At her worst, Isabelle weighed 3st 13lbs and ate two squares of chocolate and four or five cornflakes a day. She died last November, aged 28, after being admitted to a French hospital suffering from dehydration.
Marie is said to have taken her own life, consumed with guilt. Isabelle's stepfather says this was because it was his wife who insisted that her daughter go into the hospital. (In a case still pending, the Caro family believes the hospital failed Isabelle.) Aside from this, you wonder if, for Marie, guilt had become a way of life, the default guilt that's the lot of almost every mother,...
How terrible that Marie Caro has committed suicide out of "guilt". She was the mother of Isabelle Caro, the French anorexic model, who posed naked, bones jutting, skin stretched, eyes sunken pools of horror, for the 2007 "No Anorexia" campaign. At her worst, Isabelle weighed 3st 13lbs and ate two squares of chocolate and four or five cornflakes a day. She died last November, aged 28, after being admitted to a French hospital suffering from dehydration.
Marie is said to have taken her own life, consumed with guilt. Isabelle's stepfather says this was because it was his wife who insisted that her daughter go into the hospital. (In a case still pending, the Caro family believes the hospital failed Isabelle.) Aside from this, you wonder if, for Marie, guilt had become a way of life, the default guilt that's the lot of almost every mother,...
- 1/23/2011
- by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
The grieving mother of tragic anorexic French model Isabelle Caro has committed suicide, less than two months after her daughter died at the age of 28. Caro, who gave anorexia a face in a shocking 2007 awareness campaign, passed away at the Bichat Hospital in France on November 17 after battling the eating disorder for almost 15 years.
Now it has emerged her mum, Marie, took her own life earlier this month after struggling with the "guilt" she felt after forcing her daughter to stay at the medical center to receive treatment for severe dehydration. Staff at the facility are now facing legal action over allegations of negligence, which reportedly led to Caro's death.
Caro's stepfather, Christian, tells Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes, "(Marie) felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital."...
Now it has emerged her mum, Marie, took her own life earlier this month after struggling with the "guilt" she felt after forcing her daughter to stay at the medical center to receive treatment for severe dehydration. Staff at the facility are now facing legal action over allegations of negligence, which reportedly led to Caro's death.
Caro's stepfather, Christian, tells Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes, "(Marie) felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital."...
- 1/21/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The grieving mother of tragic anorexic French model Isabelle Caro has committed suicide, less than two months after her daughter died at the age of 28.
Caro, who gave anorexia a face in a shocking 2007 awareness campaign, passed away at the Bichat Hospital in France on 17 November after battling the eating disorder for almost 15 years.
Now it has emerged her mum, Marie, took her own life earlier this month after struggling with the "guilt" she felt after forcing her daughter to stay at the medical centre to receive treatment for severe dehydration. Staff at the facility are now facing legal action over allegations of negligence, which reportedly led to Caro's death.
Caro's stepfather, Christian, tells Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes, "(Marie) felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital."...
Caro, who gave anorexia a face in a shocking 2007 awareness campaign, passed away at the Bichat Hospital in France on 17 November after battling the eating disorder for almost 15 years.
Now it has emerged her mum, Marie, took her own life earlier this month after struggling with the "guilt" she felt after forcing her daughter to stay at the medical centre to receive treatment for severe dehydration. Staff at the facility are now facing legal action over allegations of negligence, which reportedly led to Caro's death.
Caro's stepfather, Christian, tells Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes, "(Marie) felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital."...
- 1/20/2011
- WENN
Less than two months after French model and actress Isabelle Caro, who suffered from anorexia, died, her mother has committed suicide, according to reports. Marie Caro was apparently suffering from "enormous guilt" and took her own life earlier this month, Britain's Daily Mail reports, citing Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes. Isabelle gained fame after her anorexia-ravaged body was featured in a shocking 2007 advertising campaign, and she died in November at age 28 after being admitted to a French hospital. "[Marie] felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital," Isabelle's stepfather, Christian,...
- 1/20/2011
- by Sara Hammel
- PEOPLE.com
The same week news broke that Isabelle Caro, anorexia's poster girl, died "Full House" star and little sister of Kirk Cameron, Candace Cameron, chose to reveal her battle with bulimia.
Cameron opened up about the eating disorder when speaking with People. She said her binge/purge routine started just after the hit TV show "Full House" wrapped filming in 1995. Cameron was 19.
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Cameron opened up about the eating disorder when speaking with People. She said her binge/purge routine started just after the hit TV show "Full House" wrapped filming in 1995. Cameron was 19.
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- 12/31/2010
- by Ellen Thompson
- Celebsology
Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model, has died at the age of 28. Caro was best known for appearing in a shocking Italian billboard ad in 2007 to promote awareness of anorexia. In the ad, the rail-thin Caro, who weighed less than 60 pounds at the time, was shown peering over her shoulder with the words "No. Anorexia" across the top of the image.
Caro herself suffered from severe anorexia nervosa since the age of 13. The model told CBS News in 2007 that she agreed to pose for the campaign because "I said if I can put my years of suffering to good use then it will not have been pointless. ... I know it's a shocking photo, and I want it to shock. It's really a warning that it is a serious illness."
Caro also worried that some anorexia sufferers might misunderstand the message of the ad. "I hope not. To see my tailbone like an open wound,...
Caro herself suffered from severe anorexia nervosa since the age of 13. The model told CBS News in 2007 that she agreed to pose for the campaign because "I said if I can put my years of suffering to good use then it will not have been pointless. ... I know it's a shocking photo, and I want it to shock. It's really a warning that it is a serious illness."
Caro also worried that some anorexia sufferers might misunderstand the message of the ad. "I hope not. To see my tailbone like an open wound,...
- 12/30/2010
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
French model Isabelle Caro, 28, has died. She appeared in a billboard campaign against anorexia in 2007. Full story at CNN.com.
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- 12/30/2010
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Though she died last month, the world is just now learning about the passing of French model Isabelle Caro. The 28-year-old Caro bravely became the face of eating disorders in 2007 when she appeared in a shocking billboard campaign warning of the dangers of anorexia during fashion week in Italy. In the ads, a painfully thin Caro, who weighed less than 60 pounds at the time, was depicted peering over her shoulder with the words "No. Anorexia" plastered in large letters across the top of the nude image.
Caro became one of the leaders of an effort to warn about the dangers of eating disorders, but after the health effects of the disorder weakened her body, she died on November 17 following a long sickness, according to her acting coach,...
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Isabella Caro
Photo: Massimo Di Nonno/Getty Images
Though she died last month, the world is just now learning about the passing of French model Isabelle Caro. The 28-year-old Caro bravely became the face of eating disorders in 2007 when she appeared in a shocking billboard campaign warning of the dangers of anorexia during fashion week in Italy. In the ads, a painfully thin Caro, who weighed less than 60 pounds at the time, was depicted peering over her shoulder with the words "No. Anorexia" plastered in large letters across the top of the nude image.
Caro became one of the leaders of an effort to warn about the dangers of eating disorders, but after the health effects of the disorder weakened her body, she died on November 17 following a long sickness, according to her acting coach,...
- 12/30/2010
- MTV Music News
London, Dec 30 – French actress and model Isabelle Caro, whose anorexic figure was on display in an Italian ad campaign in 2007, has died at the age of 28.
Caro died Nov 17 after returning to France from a job in Tokyo, according to her longtime acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Dubreuil-Prevot said she did not know the cause of Caro’s death but informed that Caro.
Caro died Nov 17 after returning to France from a job in Tokyo, according to her longtime acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Dubreuil-Prevot said she did not know the cause of Caro’s death but informed that Caro.
- 12/30/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Anorexic model Isabelle Caro has died. The 28-year-old French model and actress, who had posed naked for a "No Anorexia" campaign in 2007, passed away on November 17 in France, but her death has just been announced.
Her longtime acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, said that she passed away just after returning from a job in Tokyo, Japan. The cause of death wasn't revealed, though the instructor acknowledged that she "had been sick for a long time." A funeral was held in Paris.
Caro, who stood at 5ft. 4in. and reportedly weighed at 68lbs., infamously showed off her extremely emaciated naked body when she appeared in an ad campaign under the headline "No Anorexia."
The image, photographed by Oliviero Toscani in 2007, appeared across newspapers and billboards throughout Milan during fashion week, and was paid for by Italian clothing company Flash & Partners for its young women's brand Nolita.
Her longtime acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, said that she passed away just after returning from a job in Tokyo, Japan. The cause of death wasn't revealed, though the instructor acknowledged that she "had been sick for a long time." A funeral was held in Paris.
Caro, who stood at 5ft. 4in. and reportedly weighed at 68lbs., infamously showed off her extremely emaciated naked body when she appeared in an ad campaign under the headline "No Anorexia."
The image, photographed by Oliviero Toscani in 2007, appeared across newspapers and billboards throughout Milan during fashion week, and was paid for by Italian clothing company Flash & Partners for its young women's brand Nolita.
- 12/30/2010
- icelebz.com
Isabelle Caro, the French model who gave anorexia a face, has died. She was just 28. Caro passed away on November 17 after battling the eating disorder for almost 15 years.
She shocked and stunned the world in 2007 when she posed naked for an anorexia awareness campaign billboard shot by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani. Caro had just returned from a job in Japan when she died in her native France, according to the Associated Press.
According to her boyfriend, Swiss singer Vincent Bigler, Caro spent about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease before her passing. He said that he did not know the cause of death though.
Many people, including Jessica Simpson, were moved by her work to raise awareness for Anorexia. "To us, what you're doing right now makes you one of the most beautiful people that we have ever seen," Jessica once said. "And we really just appreciate you...
She shocked and stunned the world in 2007 when she posed naked for an anorexia awareness campaign billboard shot by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani. Caro had just returned from a job in Japan when she died in her native France, according to the Associated Press.
According to her boyfriend, Swiss singer Vincent Bigler, Caro spent about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease before her passing. He said that he did not know the cause of death though.
Many people, including Jessica Simpson, were moved by her work to raise awareness for Anorexia. "To us, what you're doing right now makes you one of the most beautiful people that we have ever seen," Jessica once said. "And we really just appreciate you...
- 12/30/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model who became a startling face of anorexia in the last years of her career, passed away on Nov. 17, according to her acting coach, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot. Caro had just returned to France after working in Tokyo.
The cause of death is unconfirmed, but Prevot does note that Caro had been "sick for a long time," referring to her highly publicized battle with the eating disorder, which she'd struggled with for 15 years. Unlike other high-profile anorexics, it's difficult to find "before and after" photos of Caro, because her disease has been so destructive throughout her entire public life.
In 2007, Caro was featured in an anti-anorexia campaign, with her naked, emaciated body appearing in print ads. She weighed 59 pounds at the time the photograph (above) was taken.
Despite her distressing appearance, Caro worked regularly, appearing in media campaigns for shock purposes. She was featured on Jessica Simpson's show,...
The cause of death is unconfirmed, but Prevot does note that Caro had been "sick for a long time," referring to her highly publicized battle with the eating disorder, which she'd struggled with for 15 years. Unlike other high-profile anorexics, it's difficult to find "before and after" photos of Caro, because her disease has been so destructive throughout her entire public life.
In 2007, Caro was featured in an anti-anorexia campaign, with her naked, emaciated body appearing in print ads. She weighed 59 pounds at the time the photograph (above) was taken.
Despite her distressing appearance, Caro worked regularly, appearing in media campaigns for shock purposes. She was featured on Jessica Simpson's show,...
- 12/30/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Isabelle Caro bared more than her soul in an attempt to educate others about the disorder ravaging her body. The French model and actress, who famously stripped naked in 2007 for an Italian ad campaign depicting the decidedly unglamorous and unhealthy effects of anorexia nervosa, died last month at 28 after "being sick for a long time," according to her acting coach. Aside from the fact that Caro died way too young, here are five other things to know: 1. The truth of the situation: In later interviews, the 5-foot-tall Caro revealed that she weighed approximately 59 pounds when she posed for photographer Oliviero Toscani's "No Anorexia" campaign for the fashion house No.li.ta, which...
- 12/30/2010
- E! Online
Isabelle Caro, a French model and actress whose anorexia-stricken body was used in a shock Italian ad in 2007, has died. She was 28.
Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, Caro's acting coach, told The Associated Press that Caro died Nov. 17 after returning to France from a job in Tokyo.
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- 12/30/2010
- by Joyce Eng
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Isabelle Caro, the French model who gave anorexia a face, has died. She was just 28.
Caro passed away on 17 November after battling the eating disorder for almost 15 years.
She shocked and stunned the world in 2007 when she posed naked for an anorexia awareness campaign billboard shot by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani.
Caro had just returned from a job in Japan when she died in her native France, according to the Associated Press.
Caro passed away on 17 November after battling the eating disorder for almost 15 years.
She shocked and stunned the world in 2007 when she posed naked for an anorexia awareness campaign billboard shot by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani.
Caro had just returned from a job in Japan when she died in her native France, according to the Associated Press.
- 12/29/2010
- WENN
French model and actress Isabelle Caro, whose anorexia-ravaged body was featured in a shocking 2007 advertising campaign, has died. The young woman's acting coach, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, revealed Caro died on Nov. 17, at the age of 28, according to reports. She had just returned to France after doing a job in Tokyo. While Dubreuil-Prevot, Caro's longtime teacher, said she didn't know the cause of death, she spoke of Caro's battle with anorexia, adding that her student - who said she suffered from the illness since she was 13 - "had been sick for a long time."The model is known for her appearance in...
- 12/29/2010
- by Sara Hammel
- PEOPLE.com
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