The New Zonka Blog (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
October last year the Italian fashion company Nolita started their controversial campaign “No Anorexia”. On the poster features the French model Isabelle Caro, who at the time weighted only 30.5 kilo The French fashin industry is now under attack from the politicians, as a law that prohibits showing super skinny as a beauty ideal, has [...]
BlogIssues.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Technorati tags: Anorexia ad, anorexia, obesity, debate, isabelle caro, nancy hayssen We’ve all seen Isabelle Caro posing her anorexic self on Oliviero Toscani’s Nolita ad. What about the other side of the weight scale? Plus-sized model Nancy Hayssen posed in “lollipop-inspired baubles” in response to anorexic ad but “Is Nancy (the plus-sized model) sending the right [...]
Adrants (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
The Nolita ad at left features Isabelle Caro, a French actress suffering from anorexia. Guess who's responsible for it? Oliviero Toscani, the guy who fell out of Benetton shortly after his controversial "We, On Death Row" campaign in 2000....
Unscathed Corpse (Free subscription) | 10/03/2007
quote [This week Italian womenswear brand Nolita has caused a lot of commotion with their new and controversial campaign. The photographs of 27-year-old emaciated anorexia patient Isabelle Caro (a French actress) bear the legend 'No Anorexia'. You can see it here . The pictures were shot by the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, who in 1992 photographed a man dying of AIDS for a Benetton campaign....
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
Model Isabelle Caro weighing just 64 lbs. EACH rib is as sharply defined as any famine victim's, her spine protrudes painfully through broken skin and her haunting green eyes, huge in her hollow face, stare at the camera with a frightened recognition of her piteous state. Isabelle Caro, 27, knows that her self-starved body "arouses repugnance", but [...]
adfreak (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
The model is Isabelle Caro, a 27-year-old, anorexic French woman who weighs 68 pounds. The photographer is Oliviero Toscani, who once supplied images of a man dying of AIDS for a Benetton campaign. The “No Anorexia” effort is appearing on...
Sandrine Plasseraud (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
Oliviero Toscani is at it again - after hundreds of controversial ads on behalf of Benetton, Toscani is now featuring the French anorexic actress Isabelle Caro (31kg !!!) to advertise the Italian fashion brand Nolita... Flash & Partners, the founder...
Back in skinny jeans (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
This ad campaign from Italian designers Flash & Partners debuted at Milan Fshion Week for their line Nolita. The model is Isabelle Caro, 27 who has suffered from Anorexia herself since she was 13. This ad campaign has showed up...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
Click this link to the UK Times and tell us -- is this beauty? The poster girl is Isabelle Caro , a French actress. She is 27. She weighs 68 pounds after 15 years with anorexia. New billboards in Italy show her naked. They are supposed to highlight the hell of anorexia. But they're also promoting a fashion label. As the UK Times reports: Her emaciated body, framed by the controversial photographer...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
This image showing naked, 27-year-old French comedienne Isabelle Caro, a 68-pound anorexic, has been in newspapers and plastered on billboards all over Milan during the city's fashion week, to raise awareness about eating disorders. It's part of a campaign...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
She is the poster girl with a difference: at 27, the French actress Isabelle Caro weighs 31kg (4st 12lb) and has suffered from anorexia for 15 years. She appeared naked on billboards across Italy yesterday to raise awareness of the illness, but also to promote a fashion label.
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 09/25/2007
So, here's the part you're all going to want to talk about: (click for non-worksafe version; photo by Oliviero Toscani) That's Isabelle Caro, a 27-year-old woman with anorexia, whose picture is being displayed all over Milan during fashion week as part of an ad campaign for No.l.ita, an Italian clothing brand. Cheers to Caro for bravely showing people what her body really looks like. More cheers to...
