ANTI-ANOREXIA BILLBOARD AD

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French-born actress Isabelle Caro has been anorexic since the age of 13. Isabelle,now 27,says that she wanted to pose for the ad campaign so as "to show young people how dangerous this illness is". The ad campaign,which was displayed during Milan's fashion week,has been the center of controversy. On one hand, many people welcome the anorexia billboard ad;these supporters believe that the billboards will raise awareness of the debilitating disease. Many critics ,however,most of them in the fashion industry,protest the use of the ad because they feel that it puts too much blame on the fashion industry.Italian clothing designer Nolita defends its ad and says that "Toscani(world-renowned photographer) literally stripped his subject, to show everyone through this nude body the reality of this illness, which in the majority of cases is caused by stereotypes caused by the fashion world."

So what do you think? Is the fashion industry to blame for this disease?

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