Inquiry
May 22 2007, Neha

Baroness Kingsmill, a former deputy chairman of the Competition Commission, who was speaking at the launch of an inquiry into the fashion industry’s relationship with size-zero models said it was high time for the industry to grow up. The inquiry...

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