kama en herr seele, nrc handelsblad 21/12/15 in december last year, a discussion came up in the media about fashion designers having to be restricted in using skinny models. i was triggered on this subject by a cartoon in the nrc handelsblad, showing a giacometti sculpture with a pony-tail on a catwalk. more than twenty years ago i wrote my master thesis about the elongated and skinny figures in the art of the fin the siècle of the 19th century. were those artists ever forbidden by law to expose their art like the fashion designers are now restricted in several countries like france? of course, some gallery owners may have refused their art, but the law never obliged them to change their figures, paintings and sculptures. in my opinion, fashion designers are artists too. so if they prefer their fashion to be shown by skinny models, they should be free to do that. of course, the health of the models is important, but they have their own responsibility and if they are not ...