Organizers for London Fashion Week no longer plan to bar size zero models and will not require international health certificates proving the models are in good physical condition. The decision was made after industry executives refused to cooperate.

"Hilary Riva of the British Fashion Council said her international counterparts complained that proposals to make catwalk models pass a medical exam were expensive and intrusive. 'From our conversations with our international counterparts... it has become clear that they do not recognize the need for an international health certificate,' Riva said in an open letter posted on the council's Web site on Wednesday."

The medical exams would have cost $500, and many believed that models would have simply sought work in fashion shows where the certificates weren't required. Source: Associated Press

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