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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

…chat show last week, Lily Allen told a story so hauntingly repellent that I feel compelled to share it. At a fashion show with a friend, she remarked on the pervasive and unpleasant smell around the catwalk. “Oh, that,” said her friend, who was clearly more used to it. “It’s the sick on the models’ breath.” The women’s magazine that came free with my Sunday newspaper a couple of weeks ago promised on its cover to reveal  “The fifty questions you should be asking yourself about fashion right now.”  Fifty! I’d say that if you ask yourself more than three questions about fashion in an entire lifetime then you’re an idiot, but maybe this should be one of them: “Why does this horrible industry destroy the bodies of so many beautiful young women?”