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Rosemount Australian Fashion Week's only guidelines over body image state: "RAFW does not currently see the need to impose strict rules on designers regarding the casting of models at the event in relation to imposing body mass indexes ...there has been very little cause for concern regarding the issue."

Lock said the "size zero" debate was just not an issue in Australia where most models tend to have higher BMIs given a range of environmental factors.

"The models we have at Australian Fashion Week are beautiful and athletic," he said.

The event did, however, this year ban models aged under 16 from appearing on the catwalk after uproar over plans to feature 14-year-old Polish model Monika Jagaciak.

Ward said there was a lot of pressure in the fashion industry outside Australia for models to be extremely thin.

"In Australia we have a much healthier attitude towards body image and such an outdoor lifestyle that the girls here are usually one size larger," she said.

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Ward declined to give exact details of the five-feet 11-inches (180 cms) tall model's weight.

Fashion designers, model agencies, and the media have been widely attacked for promoting an emaciated, waif-like look which critics say contributes to eating disorders among young girls and led to the death of two anorexic Latin American models in 2006.

But the head of Australian Fashion Week, Simon Lock, said there was no reason for organizers of the 13th annual event to intervene or draft stricter rules to conform with some overseas fashion shows that state what body mass index models should have.

Spain and Italy have recommended banning catwalk models with a body mass index (BMI) of less than 18.5 -- a measure expressing a ratio of weight to height -- but shows in London, New York and Paris say this index is not an accurate measure of health. Bikin fashion, Beauty girl, Girl Beauty, Bikini girl, gai xinh, Fashion Designers

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Australian model agency Chic Management took 23-year-old Stephanie Carta out of a show by designer Michelle Jank on Monday when it became obvious she had lost weight since moving to Paris last November.

But she was allowed back onto the catwalk a day later, after her agency was reassured that she was fit and well -- although her appearances were limited to about eight shows instead of about 15.

"She's been working for seven days a week, 11 hours a day, to pursue her dream of becoming an international model but she also contracted glandular fever so she had lost weight," said the agency's spokeswoman Kathy Ward.

"She is on a positive track now and is going to relax, take time out, not work as hard and have lunches and dinners."

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For men, the silhouette was slim for suits in the vein of mid-century Continental - picture 1950s ad men - and the palette du jour, flannel grey. Chunky knits rounded out casual offerings and crinkled white denim looked particularly fresh.

A halftone backdrop of the stark branches of trees emphasized the minimal color palette of the collections as a whole - all flannel grays, inky blacks, crisp whites, chalky charcoals punctuated by just two looks in fuschia, functioning in the collection like a smear of bright lipstick on a bare face.

Banana Republic launched its upscale version of the label this spring called Monogram, featuring more or less a similar BR style as their regular collection, but in more luxurious fabrics and more refined construction. Their first stand-alone boutique opened earlier this month in New York on Bleecker Street and is also available online.

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With a runway show in an art gallery in New York on Tuesday, April 29, Banana Republic showcased a cohesive set of separates that wouldn't be out of place in the cubicles of an architecture firm worn by scrupulous associates: stand-up funnel collars on coats, military detailing on a cardigan sweater, trim pleated trousers and blousy white silk tuxedo shirt for the women - exemplifying a light feminine touch on the menswear-inspired looks featured throughout. Basic black coats featured dramatic architectural puffed sleeves, injecting this urban wardrobe staple with the kind of detail you'd expect from a more expensive designer label.

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Bundchen, 27, may have ended her long-standing agreement with Victoria's Secret in 2007, but the blonde beauty still has around 20 contracts and has appeared in ads for Disney, Nivea and Aquascutum.

Bundchen, the former girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio and current partner of American football star Tom Brady, earned more than double the second highest paid model on the list, Germany's Heidi Klum.

Klum, 34, earned 14 million dollars through her modelling, media and fashion business interests.

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Miele and Vogue hosted a cocktail party on Wednesday night, April 30, to show off and sell the t-shirt designs created by Scarlett Johansson, Camilla Belle, Caroline Trentini, Michael Roberts, Diana Picasso, Alice Braga and Bebel Gilberto, with 100 percent of the evening's proceedings going towards the Rainforest Foundation-US. Bikini girl, gai xinh, Fashion Designers

"I've liked the work of the Rainforest Foundation for a long time," said Miele. "I think Sting was a visionary when he came to Brazil and he was really concerned about Amazonia and the rainforest. For me, it's great to support this foundation."

Miele wore the design by Brazilian actress Camilla Belle, who is in Brazil now shooting a new film, "Adrift." The image, an outline of Brazil, features a quote by an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, who was shot to death in the Amazon in 2005: "The death of the forest is the end of our life."

Miele said everyone involved was eager to be a part of the project.

"They're all friends, people who I talked to about the idea and they said, 'Oh, I'd like to help.'"