- Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less. - Ten years ago plus-size models averaged between size 12 and 18.

But not so here in Israel, where a new law took effect Jan. 1 that aims to prevent fashion models from losing weight to the detriment of their health and the wellbeing of others inclined to follow ...

Israeli fashion photographer and model agent Adi Barkan has helped introduce a law aimed at reducing eating disorders and promoting a healthy body image. (Picture: Reuters) A new law in Israel is ...

it seems as if the modeling and fashion world has finally taken it to heart. Betty Rockaway, owner of the country’s first modeling agency Image Models, and credited for introducing the modeling ...

To combat a growing problem with anorexia and bulimia, a new law in Israel bans fashion models who are considered unhealthily thin and requires the labeling of photos that are digitally altered to ...

A prominent New York fashion model and interior designer has been dropped by her talent agency after she posted anti-Israel messages on social media comparing the country to Nazis. Camilla Deterre ...

Tahounia Rubel, 5’9, born in 1988 Born in Ethiopia, Rubel won an Israeli modeling pageant in 2012 and represented Israel at the World Supermodel ... Point Zero and PeaceLoveWorld, among other fashion ...

It took fashion photographer Adi Barkan nearly 10 years to secure the passage of his so-called Photoshop law — the recent Knesset legislation requiring a minimum weight for models according to ...

Betty Rockaway, a fashion veteran in Israel and founder of the Image Models Agency – which nurtured talents such as actresses Ayelet Zurer, Yael Abecassis, Mili Avital and Yael Bar Zohar ...