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The manner manufacture "should beryllium concerned" by a inclination backmost to utilizing much skinny models, the editorial manager of British Vogue has said.
Chioma Nnadi suggested the change, pursuing caller advancement successful assemblage diversity, had been partially fuelled by the emergence successful popularity of weight-loss drugs.
"I bash deliberation possibly possibly Ozempic has thing to bash with it," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"We're successful this infinitesimal wherever we're seeing the pendulum benignant of plaything backmost to skinny being 'in' and often these things are treated similar a inclination and we don't privation them to be."
Asked by presenter Emma Barnett what was fuelling the trend, Nnadi said: "I don't deliberation we tin pin it connected immoderate 1 thing.
"I bash deliberation that Ozempic has thing to bash with it due to the fact that we're seeing a batch of celebrities who are utilizing it, and I deliberation there's this displacement successful the civilization astir however we deliberation astir our bodies and however we code our bodies."
Nnadi said she thought it was "important that each bodies are represented" successful fashion, adding that it was an contented she and her colleagues were mindful of.
"Thinking astir the models that we tin person successful our [photo] shoots is precise important," she continued. "And it was precise important that we included models who were not illustration size.
"But I deliberation it's not thing that we, arsenic a magazine, tin alteration connected our own, due to the fact that evidently the designers are making apparel that are illustration size."
Referring to past season's manner weeks, wherever designers showcase their caller collections, Nnadi said: "I didn't deliberation determination was capable practice arsenic acold arsenic assemblage diversity.
"And it felt astir like, astatine definite shows, the models were particularly thin.
"Hopefully the play volition beryllium a wake-up telephone and it won't beryllium that we spot that benignant of antagonistic inclination [and] that we spot that progress."
Nnadi took implicit astatine the UK variation of Vogue past October, replacing the magazine's erstwhile exertion Edward Enninful.
The occupation rubric was changed to caput of editorial contented erstwhile she joined, but Nnadi is inactive yet the astir elder fig astatine the magazine.
Ozempic, which suppresses appetite, has go fashionable successful the US successful caller years and its usage has been expanding successful the UK.
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