New York Fashion Week opened on Friday 2. At BCBG Max Azria show in New York 19 models walked down the white runway in a dreamlike state. Tall, super-skinny and bony girls, romantic, earthy, nymphlike dresses cascading from their stark figures.

With catwaks of waiflike models, actually tiny mannequins, the question could be heard from the air (asked by ): why models must be so thin, and whether the industry sets an impossible and potentially dangerous standard of beauty.

Karl Lagerfeld told Women’s Wear Daily last week that efforts to regulate models amount to “politically correct fascism.”

“Women don’t normally look like that and it’s very hard on young girls who think that’s how they should look,” said Vanessa Trump, wife of Donald Trump Jr., who sat in the front row at the BCBG Max Azria show dressed in jeans and a white cotton blouse.

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