ERIC WILSON
Published: September 21, 2006
THEY were alarmingly thin. Snejana Onopka, Natasha Poly and Hana Soukupova, models in demand among the fashion designers who showed their collections in New York last week, appeared so gaunt and thin that their knees and elbows were larger than their concave thighs and pipe cleaner arms, and their bobbling heads looked as if a slight breeze could detach them from their frail bodies.
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EXTREME VIEW A model as presented through a distorting mirror at the Michael Kors show.
Firstview
NOW YOU SEE THEM Vlada Rosylakova, above left, with Natasha Poly.
Linda Wells, the editor of the beauty magazine Allure, said there were moments during the shows when she could hear gasps in the audience at their appearance.