Thursday, January 25, 2007
Fashion chiefs agree to discuss ultra-thin models
Yahoo! News: "The fashion industry has been widely attacked for promoting the kind of stick-thin images which critics say contribute to eating disorders in young women and some countries have taken cautious measures to bring more weight onto the catwalks."
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See, here is the thing. The fashion models are to be skinny, because they're suppose to display the clothing the way designers meant to arrange. Gisele Buncheun (spelling?) said to a girl at some eathing disorder camp that no normal person should not be a model, because most models are born with skinny genetics. And Kira Knightly just sued US Weekly for accusing her for the cause of a girl who committed suicide for feeling low about her body image after looking at Kira Knightly's bikini shots. It's not their fault that they're skinny. They're born that way. For the people who aren't, you should ask yourself if you should be in the business in the first place...
This is an iffy situation because there are two separate agendas here. One being that, as Jeannie said, the designer needs a walking hanger to display their clothing. The focus shouldn't be on their amazing curves and beautiful features which is why they like them thin so that the clothing doesn't accentuate any of these features. On the other hand, models in the days of Marilyn Monroe didn't have this issue but when the super model was officially defined in the mid 60s upon the success of underweight sixteen year old Twiggy Lawson things began to change. Models that wanted to reach "status" just kept getting thinner and with the world changing around them in the 80s to present when exercise and dieting began to rise considerably, it was in their best interest to follow the trend so they could keep a job. As Jeannie points out, it's important to remember that the majority of models have slim body types naturally and have to do very little to maintain that. The issue of influencing the youth in terms of weight is partially connected to the fact that models need to be thin but mostly with the excessive advertising campaigns and values of this country specifically. In the US the percentage of abnormal eating attitudes is 26% in females 15-24 and 10% in males. Not to mention that the divorce rates are through the roof and parenting has taken a serious hit in the past years. Eating disorders are a problem all over the world as well but the highest rates are right here at home.
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