article_snippet.sent: Gone are the days of the waif model and 'heroin chic': a new, fitter, stronger generation of women will be walking down the runway at this year's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia.
article_snippet.sent: Bringing sexy back: Australian designers We Are Handsome are among the fashion houses rejecting traditional skinnier models in favour of strong, fit girls .
article_snippet.sent: There’s a big thing about "who should be on the runway" so we know We’re breaking rules by having girls that have never been on a catwalk before (and who are nervous about it),' Katinka told Daily Mail Australia.
article_snippet.sent: Casting healthy girls is crucial  to the designers who believe   largely represent healthy girls brand and  promote the active philosophy healthy girls value. '
article_snippet.sent: We will not cast skinny models or skeletal frames, we look for real, active and healthy women - and  not just with the fit girls but for We catwalk models too,' says Katinka.
article_snippet.sent: Waif goes wayward: Australian designers ditch skeletal frames, following France's law to ban skinny models .
article_snippet.sent: A lot of the girls (fitness models) are very big on Instagram and encourage people to follow in people active foot steps, so We have chosen experienced yogis, a ballerina, a sprinter and pole vaulter and people who embody healthy eating too,' says Jeremy.
article_snippet.sent: Australian designer Manning Cartell have also taken a stance, with all 39 women on Australian designer Manning Cartell runway being size 8-10 models this season.
article_snippet.sent: Additionally Bondi Bather has refused 'too-skinny models' during castings with designer Kerry Cusack reporting back to modelling agencies that Kerry Cusack is after healthy, Aussie girls and believes Additionally Bondi Bather a responsibility designers need to guard to stop young girls body image issues.
highlights_snippet.sent: Designers We Are Handsome, Manning Cartell and Bondi Bather turn away from using skinny models .
  