Fashion entities believe that while the west demands wafer thin models, local ones must look after their health because the trend here is a full-bodied figure that goes well with sarees and lehengas.
International models are so swept off by dieting to look gorgeous that they are starving themselves.
Designer Jatin Kochhar opines that since Indian dresses demand a healthy figure, models need to maintain themselves. Situation here is better than overseas, which is quite a relief for the local fashion circle.
Ritu Kumar finds it very abstract that western designers use anorexic models to flaunt their creations and then they are supplied to the public. She prefers healthy models to slim ones.
Manish Arora considers Indian models to be properly proportionate. But designers working on western pret give importance to tall athletic figures with lean bustline.
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