First catwalk run for charter on thin and underage models
By Reuters
03 October 2017 |
1:59 pm
Labels from Dior to Saint Laurent showed off their latest collections at Paris Fashion Week, alongside another innovation meant to wean the industry off its association with unhealthily thin, underage models.
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