All eyes on models as much as clothes on Paris catwalks

Paris fashion week begins on Monday with all eyes as much on the models as on what they are wearing. French fashion's two biggest players, LVMH and Kering, said this month that they were banning ultrathin and underage models from their catwalks. The two companies -- which between them control a raft of storied labels from Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton to Saint Laurent and Balenciaga -- have vowed to use only models 16 and older from now on.