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This is the Yves Saint Lauren photo just banned by the UK for being “irresponsible”

June 4, 2015

This Yves Saint Laurent image shows a women lying along the curved corner of a room.

Part of her chest is exposed and her ribs clearly visible. Her legs, stretching away and clad in stockings and platform shoes, seem about the same diameter above the knee as below it.

It was banned Wednesday by the Advertising Standards Authority.

It had appeared in Elle Magazine, where it was spotted by a reader who alerted the ASA.

According to the ruling issued by the regulator, Elle told the ASA it had no comment on the decision.

But Yves Saint Laurent told the ASA it didn’t agree the model was unhealthily thin.

ASA spokesman Matt Wilston tells Quartz that the agency’s objection was not to the model herself.

“However the techniques used in the YSL ad, such as the lighting and styling, made the model look unhealthy and was therefore irresponsible,” he says.

Hospital admissions for eating disorders in young people almost doubled in the UK between 2011 and 2014.

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These are the world’s ten best restaurants in 2015

June 2, 2015

1 El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain

Crack open the expense account – these are the world’s ten best restaurants, according to the much-anticipated annual list of the World’s 50 Best restaurants, just announced at an award ceremony in London.

1. El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain

2. Osteria Franciscana, Modena, Italy.

3. Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark.

4. Central Restaurante, Lima, Peru.

5. Eleven Madison Park, New York, New York.

6. Mugaritz, San Sebastian, Spain.

7. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London, UK.

8. Narisawa, Tokyo, Japan.

9. D.O.M., Sao Paulo, Brazil.

10. Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand.

The 50 Best ranking is drafted by roughly 1,000 food critics, chefs, well-traveled gourmands, and food industry professionals. Unlike the rigorous system that Michelin uses to award its coveted stars—including anonymous inspectors who craft detailed reports examining factors like flower arrangements or table decoration—50 Best doesn’t require its voters to submit justifications or comments.

What’s more the organisation is sponsored by food and drink brands including San Pellegrino and Lavazza. chefs such as Mallmann, who owns the 1884 restaurant in Mendoza, Argentina, have complained that juries tend to reward restaurants located in the most touristy and mainstream cities, while tables that are off the beaten path go unnoticed.

See the full list here.

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Americans stay together eight years before divvying up the wedding gifts

June 2, 2015

13.6. That is the average length of a marriage before a divorce in the mostly rich countries of the OECD, says The Economist. Italians stick it out longest (perhaps because formal separation is lengthy and expensive). Americans, stereotypically impatient, only stay together eight years before divvying up the wedding gifts. Qatar, where polygamy is legal, has both a short length of marriage prior to a divorce and low divorce rate. Across Europe the divorce rate is around 2.5 for every 1,000 people; America’s is 3.6. As for marriage, the rate in many Western countries has long declined, but plateaued in recent years. (In Russia and China the rate has increased).

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If you spent eight hours consuming media today, you are not alone

June 1, 2015

On average, people spend more than 490 minutes of their day with some sort of media, according to a new report by ZenithOptimedia.

Average daily internet media consumption has doubled over the past five years. The internet accounted for 13% of average daily media use in 2010, but is set to reach nearly 30% in 2017.

Where is all that dwell time coming from? Just as the internet has hollowed out other industries, so it is with media. The internet is benefiting at the cost of all other media, especially magazines and newspapers.

By 2017, we will find even more time in the day to take in media—half of our waking life is apparently not enough—with global average consumption set to rise to 506 minutes, according to ZenithOptimedia.

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