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Though Anna Wintour attends the CFDA’s panel talks on model health and body image in the fashion industry, held in New York every season before Fashion Week, she doesn’t speak on them. But last night — in Boston, at Harvard Business School — she spoke about eating disorders on a panel with Michael Kors and Natalia Vodianova. Nearly 1,000 people went to hear them speak at the event, which raised $150,000 for the Harris Center, an eating-disorder clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital. From the Boston Globe:
“The models were so frightened of recrimination and that they wouldn’t be booked for shoots or shows that they didn’t want to talk about what everybody knew was going on,’’ Wintour said in an interview before the panel discussion. “Creating guidelines within the industry to know what to do when they see a girl with a problem was an important first step. What we’ve been doing with discussions like this one is making sure that the message gets out there to everyone.’’