Fashion designers weigh in on skinny models

While leafing through TIME's Style & Design issue, I spotted a few choice quotes about the fashion/eating disorders controversy:

We don't see anorexic.  The girls are skinny.  They have skinny bones.

-- Karl Lagerfeld

I have never liked thin girls, and I have never made them go on the catwalk.

-- Giorgio Armani

I wanted to lose a few kilos recently, as I'm heavier than I was 20 or 30 years ago.  It's really convenient to be thinner.  I didn't eat for a day and a half, and the scales moved a little.

-- Vivienne Westwood

Fashion is not the cause of juvenile problems.  There are other ways to take care of our young generation:  stop showing half-naked starlets on television, ban silicone implants if one is not at least 25, for example.

-- Roberto Cavalli

Let's not become fanatics.

--  Diane von Furstenberg