Milan fashion week is resisting calls for a ban on underweight models amid a debate on super-thin girls and eating disorders that has gripped the public but elicits bored yawns from designers. Madrid earlier this month asked models below a certain weight to stay away from its shows, but on the catwalks in Milan there were plenty of girls with stick-thin arms and gaunt faces. Mario Boselli, head of the Italian fashion industry’s chamber of commerce, told Reuters there were no plans to copy Madrid. Speaking on the phone between fashion shows, he said he had seen “maybe one girl among a hundred” that could be defined as too skinny and that there was no need for regulations. Media had reported that Milan was adopting its own set of rules to protect models, but Boselli said those regulations were merely part of Italian law, were not new and had nothing to do with the weight issue. “There’s been a misunderstanding. We follow the Italian labor law, which means that underage models must have a health certificate, show that they attend school and be accompanied. But that applies to all minors, not just models,” he said.