All models under 16 must have frequent medical visits to make sure they are physically and psychologically fine. The system in France is not broken. I have never had other criteria. Age is also unimportant, from 15 to 40 and more. Vera Wang said what she finds upsetting is the fact that fashion standards are being embraced by civilians.
Wang said she had seen a few models, whom she declined to name, faint in her showroom from undereating. Needless to say, they were not selected to walk in her show.
Wang said she did not choose models based on their weight. I like a certain sense of a modern girl, who might look like students or girls off the street. Bill Blass designer Michael Vollbracht said last season he turned away a few models who looked too gaunt. While talking about the issue was productive, he said, he was not expecting any immediate results.
But the agencies have to monitor these girls. Someone has to guide these children. At Nicole Miller, models are weighed on a scale in the showroom and their heights are recorded. A model that falls below the norm is then suspect and we pay attention to her. Their heads are too big for their bodies. A career should be starting at 17 or Dana Buchman, who is a CFDA board member, firmly supports the guidelines and gave copies of them to every employee in her showroom.
I am very proud of the fashion industry for making a move. As the stylist behind the shows for Miss Sixty and Ter et Tantine, as well as her own ready-to-wear line, VPL, Bartlett doubted the debate would affect castings for advertising. Peter Som said it was still too soon to gauge how much would change. The designer said the fashion industry was as much to blame for the ultrathin trend as Hollywood and its actresses, who are equally influential role models to women.
While many Italian designers agreed, they also were resistant to being told what type of models they should hire. Again, my stance is that fashion has nothing to do with anorexia because models have always been skinny. Since the Forties, models have always been tall and thin because professions that imply the use of your body apply different rules — from the training of astronauts to the bodies of sumo fighters.
The proof is Bette Franke, who we used for the fall ad campaign shot by Craig McDean and who typifies sweetness, a strong personality and harmonious curves. I prefer models that look like women as opposed to girls. There are certain girls out there who are naturally thin, and there is nothing wrong with that. I think everyone has to be responsible in this — of course, I would never cast a girl who looked ill or poorly.
We pay more attention to their personality and their character than their weight. In any case, he suggested agencies, who recruit, train and coach models, should be at the forefront of efforts to deal with unhealthy body weights.
That means gone are the days of the superskinny waif. This is ridiculous. With the overuse of underweight models, and skinny images continually promoted in Hollywood, magazine editors have been taken to task for constantly featuring those photos in their magazines.
Think about it like this: if you have two cookie cutters, one square and one round that you apply to equally sized sheets of dough, which will give you more cookies with less wasted dough in between? Fashion cycles keep whirling faster as stores both encourage and cater to consumer demand for a constant influx of new merchandise. Designers are being pushed to their limits to keep up.
In today's global market place, having a fashion business is all about dealing with economy of scale- if you can't produce quickly and in large volume, it is very, very difficult to stay in business. So perhaps it is actually the mechanics of an ineffective and over-burdened manufacturing system that is the true culprit behind why our runway models look the way they do. If our designers do not have the support from both the industry and consumers to rigorously examine things like fit and innovative but wearable proportions, they will keep on sending clothes down the runway that hang uninterrupted from shoulders to hips.
These fashions will continue to be worn by very thin models because that's who looks good in them. And models will keep on trying to stay as thin as possible because they, like everyone else, want to keep on paying their bills News U.
Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Most models will scarf whatever they can get their hands on once a day, between shows or late at night. Australia gets our models back once Paris is finished with them. Not very sophisticated. Except when it is. Her models were still a sample size, but it was a sane sample size. She is more established in Australia than most.
She can take that risk, use her clout to cast models who are self possessed, stunning, grown-ass women like Tanja Gacic, without fear the model might steal light from her clothes.
So why does Paris demand girls to be model-thin in the first place? Country Road is for you. And if your really feel like splurging, Sass and Bide is for you. But there are people who can. And high fashion is for them. Ever since the anorexic Empress Elisabeth of Austria became a style icon — 18 inch waist and all — in the s, being painfully thin has been seen as just about the poshest thing you can do.
As calories became cheaper and the poorest in society grew bigger, the relationship between wealth and extreme slenderness has only deepened. They never looked scary in the way that she did. They wear skirts that cover their legs. Thick or thin, upper thigh is still shocking. She does however look amazing in her dresses. This is the other reason fashion adores extreme thinness. This is because extreme thinness makes one into a literal clothes hanger. The curve of a breast, the heft of a thigh.
And so they should be. Extreme thinness done right neutralizes the distraction of the female body. The wearer is so tiny they literally cease to exist, and the garment becomes the dominant story.
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