At one show a model, clad in a super slim gown, tossed a tape measure onto the catwalk. At another show a 6-year-old modeled a T-shirt bearing the slogan “I love diet.” The gestures during the four-day couture this week show that for Italian designers the debate on modeling...

Professional celebrity Paris Hilton is suing to close down the ParisExposed website for what her lawyers call “one of the most reprehensible invasions of privacy ever committed.” The website emerged when its owners came in possession of a number of Hilton’s personal...