anorexic peddlers?

voz es

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-model-agencies-say-one-of-these-girls-is-the-proper-shape-and-the-other-is-too-fat-are-they-right-1312076.html

It would be only propper for the EU to encourages legisation that makes it a crinimal act for the people in that industry to employ models that are medically anorexic, publish images of anorexic models or encourage unhealthy weight loss.

A KONY campaign for one of our film graduat possibally?

micropig

voz es wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-model-agencies-say-one-of-these-girls-is-the-proper-shape-and-the-other-is-too-fat-are-they-right-1312076.html

It would be only propper for the EU to encourages legisation that makes it a crinimal act for the people in that industry to employ models that are medically anorexic, publish images of anorexic models or encourage unhealthy weight loss.

A KONY campaign for one of our film graduat possibally?

This should be the case, but everyone knows these stick thin dying looking models are the most attractive:rolleyes:

The line that divides teenagers with a physique envied by millions of women from that of the anorexic is increasingly blurred, despite agencies' protests that they employ only healthy girls with normal appetites who are thin because they exercise a lot.

Jo Fonseca, director of Models 1, said: "Models have to be slim. I can think of nothing worse than being fat. The only reason that thin girls look so unusual at the moment is because there are so many fat people.":eek::eek:

im invisible

With all that cycling they're doing, its no wonder they are thin

im invisible

micropig wrote: »

Jo Fonseca, director of Models 1, said: "Models have to be slim. I can think of nothing worse than being fat. The only reason that thin girls look so unusual at the moment is because there are so many fat people.":eek::eek:

he's not wrong.

Robdude

voz es wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-model-agencies-say-one-of-these-girls-is-the-proper-shape-and-the-other-is-too-fat-are-they-right-1312076.html

It would be only propper for the EU to encourages legisation that makes it a crinimal act for the people in that industry to employ models that are medically anorexic, publish images of anorexic models or encourage unhealthy weight loss.

A KONY campaign for one of our film graduat possibally?

Supply and demand.

People buy what they want. Apparently, that's the look they want.

El Weirdo

Robdude wrote: »

People buy what they want.

No they don't. People buy what they're told they want.

Dudess

im invisible wrote: »

micropig wrote: »

Jo Fonseca, director of Models 1, said: "Models have to be slim. I can think of nothing worse than being fat. The only reason that thin girls look so unusual at the moment is because there are so many fat people.":eek::eek:

he's not wrong.

Jo is Josephine or Joanne. What she says is moronic - as if the only alternative to being sickly thin is fat. Healthily slim, naturally slender etc are not unusual - she's just trying to defend her policy of hiring underweight young women. Seems like a ****.

Dudess

El Weirdo wrote: »

Robdude wrote: »

People buy what they want.

No they don't. People buy what they're told they want.

It's a bit from column A and a bit from column B, but it definitely seems the fashion industry is what sets this trend, not the consumers. In reality, anyone who finds starved-looking attractive is very unusual, or unwell (anorexic - looking for "thinspiration").

micropig

Dudess wrote: »

Jo is Josephine or Joanne. What she says is moronic - as if the only alternative to being sickly thin is fat. Healthily slim, naturally slender etc are not unusual - she's just trying to defend her policy of hiring underweight young women. Seems like a ****.

It's even worse than moronic, it's downright dangerous, vulnerable young girls believe this sh1t.

No denying that obesity is a problem too but I think, people in the healthy weight range are most common

Chain_reaction

That article is from 1996....

Hande hoche!

Simpler times.

Red Hand

Dudess wrote: »

It's a bit from column A and a bit from column B, but it definitely seems the fashion industry is what sets this trend, not the consumers. In reality, anyone who finds starved-looking attractive is very unusual, or unwell (anorexic - looking for "thinspiration").

Not to mention airbrushing. The TV campaign of the 48 Go Conquer ad campaign (which I loath on so many levels) has one of the models kind of dancing. Then on the billboard, the same model is posing with her hands on her hips and her upper arms look so wrong. In the ad, they look normal, but in the billboard poster they are airbrushed to almost the size her wrist is.

God, I hate those f*cking ads!:pac:

micropig

http://www.examiner.com/eating-disorder-in-philadelphia/isabelle-caro-her-modeling-photos-picture?slide=27790101


This clown also supports it

Karl Lagerfeld says only 'fat mummies' object to thin models

Thin anorexic models have the body of 10 year old boys


London fashion week 2011


I can't even see the clothes with the hollow look in their faces, They need a sandwich..........

Dudess

Red Hand wrote: »

The TV campaign of the 48 Go Conquer ad campaign (which I loath on so many levels) has one of the models kind of dancing. Then on the billboard, the same model is posing with her hands on her hips and her upper arms look so wrong. In the ad, they look normal, but in the billboard poster they are airbrushed to almost the size her wrist is.

God, I hate those f*cking ads!:pac:

They are supposed to be about Irish kids - they look like characters in a Bret Easton Ellis novel film adaptation. Such pretentious ****.

Red Hand

Dudess wrote: »

They are supposed to be about Irish kids - they look like characters in a Bret Easton Ellis novel film adaptation. Such pretentious ****.

I hate the bloody voice over, too. "Fordy eide". It's forty eight! pronounce your "t's". I'd stake my house that non of them are Irish-possible a German/French ad campaign translated for us.

And the hint of possible lesbian experimentation...very relevent in these days of "I kissed a girl, I liked it"-you can imagine the marketing people having a special congratulatory lunch out for thinking of that.

God, I so f8cking hate it!:pac:

Dudess

"This is Emer" - no it f'ucking isn't... it's Ingrid from Berlin who works as a model.

angry kitten

One thing I've noticed over the years is that when you see an interview with a fashion designer, broadly speaking they seem to be either short gay men or plump women dressed in baggy black dresses. Most of the stuff on the catwalks seems designed to flatter the figure of a tall, prepubescent boy. I saw Vera Wang on a programme the other night and she looks like she desperately needs to eat something soon.

I read something yesterday about a Sloggi model successfully suing her modelling agency for sacking her, apparently they felt her thighs were too fat. I'd be delighted if I looked as great in my underwear as she does in hers. It all seemed to go downhill in the 90's. Suddenly the fashion went from Cindy Crawford on a beach to Kate Moss's heroin chic in a public toilet.

Dudess

And surely the clothes would hang better on a slender yet shapely, healthy woman with a bit of cleavage?
Knickers models look amazing - but catwalk models look half dead.

angry kitten

Dudess wrote: »

And surely the clothes would hang better on a slender yet shapely, healthy woman with a bit of cleavage?
Knickers models look amazing - but catwalk models look half dead.

You'd think that would make sense wouldn't you. Its ridiculous that there are women slimming so much that they get to a size were they have to get boob jobs and butt implants. I look at catwalk models and wonder where they keep their internal organs.

Millicent

The attitude to body weight is scarily engrained in some circles of the fashion industry. I remember having a vicious row with a friend within the industry following the furore over Mark Fast using size 12-14 models, as well as thinner models, to showcase his clothes, so confident was he that his clothes looked good on anybody. His stylist and creative designer both quit over it and my friend thought they should have because he was putting their livelihoods at risk. For using a stunning, differently sized model. I couldn't get over her opinion but she's by no means alone.

This, btw, was the model in question. Hardly mammoth.

Dudess

I googled the models he has used - not skinny but not remotely fat, and in perfect proportion. And not starved-looking.

Millicent

Dudess wrote: »

I googled the models he has used - not skinny but not remotely fat, and in perfect proportion. And not starved-looking.

And all wearing his clothes so well--he actually fitted his fashions to different bodies rather than demanding that women change their bodies to be able to make his fashion look good. That, to me, is a giant measure of his competence as a designer over someone who can't make clothes that suit a variety of women and can only work with one body type.

Stiffler2

I personally find anorexic women highly highly attractive but there is such a thing as too anorexic.

one could also argue the fact that the clothes they are peddling are of a high quality warmth nature which keeps the anorexic women warm versus the fatties who wouldn't need warm clothes.

so 1 could argue the fashion industry is trying to show the quality of their product ??

Stiffler2

Soz all, tried to start a new thread and posted the above ititle nto this one instead.
plz ignore



DDDUUUUHHHHHH

micropig

micropig wrote: »

http://www.examiner.com/eating-disorder-in-philadelphia/isabelle-caro-her-modeling-photos-picture?slide=27790101


This clown also supports it

Karl Lagerfeld says only 'fat mummies' object to thin models

Thin anorexic models have the body of 10 year old boys


London fashion week 2011


I can't even see the clothes with the hollow look in their faces, They need a sandwich..........

good jesus some of them look awful :eek: why would you want to do that to yourself...

pickarooney

Millicent wrote: »

And all wearing his clothes so well--he actually fitted his fashions to different bodies rather than demanding that women change their bodies to be able to make his fashion look good. That, to me, is a giant measure of his competence as a designer over someone who can't make clothes that suit a variety of women and can only work with one body type.

One is reminded of Cinderella's ugly sister slicing off part of her foot to fit into the glass slipper.

WindSock

Being stick thin implies prestige and is a status symbol. Naturally these designers are making clothes for the super rich. They dictate fashion. When styles trickle down to the lower classes, the clothes are cheaper and in bigger sizes.

kylith

I remember seeing one of those catwalk programmes a few years ago where the designer was having a strop because the model had breasts. Apparently having an actual female shape means that the clothes 'hang wrong'. My opinion on that would be that a better designer is needed if the one they have can't make clothes for an adult woman.

Most models are probably the same dimensions as my 14 year old niece, and it's well known that shop-window dummies are so thin that, if they were real, they wouldn't have periods.

cynder

Stiffler2 wrote: »

I personally find anorexic women highly highly attractive but there is such a thing as too anorexic.

??

:eek:


Would you not want to give them a good feed so you wont feel like you will snap them in 2.

A woman is supposed to have curves, boobs, hips and an arse. Something to cuddle and an hold onto.

Stiffler2

grindelwald wrote: »

:eek:


Would you not want to give them a good feed so you wont feel like you will snap them in 2.

A woman is supposed to have curves, boobs, hips and an arse. Something to cuddle and an hold onto.

I feel breaking a women in 2 with my penis would be an awesome ego boost.
Perhaps the kind of ego boost I am looking for......

Princess Peach

I attend a support group for girls with eating disorders and body image issues and every class we talk about the media and fashion industry. It just comes up in conversation so much.

The majority of the fashion industry make clothes to suit thin people, use skinny models to showcase them, and then expect you to change yourself to look good in them.

And then the media gives such mixed signals to girls. The article there tells you the models are too thin, the modelling director says they are not too thin, the rest of the world is too fat, that fine looking model Millicent posted was called too fat. What are young impressionable girls supposed to think is right?

There are so many problems in the modelling industry but I really don't see a solution it, which is sad and harmful to too many people.

The_Thing

Dudess wrote: »

And surely the clothes would hang better on a slender yet shapely, healthy woman with a bit of cleavage?
Knickers models look amazing - but catwalk models look half dead.

Dudess, Claudia and I agree with you.

El Weirdo

"Idea for a programme: 'Lady Shapes with Alan Partridge'. I look at the changing shape of ladies through the ages, from fat, chubby ladies of the Renaissance, to hard-faced Cromwellian sourpusses, right up to twentieth-century well-toned women like Sharon Davies and Jet from Gladiators."

micropig

El Weirdo wrote: »

"Idea for a programme: 'Lady Shapes with Alan Partridge'. I look at the changing shape of ladies through the ages, from fat, chubby ladies of the Renaissance, to hard-faced Cromwellian sourpusses, right up to twentieth-century well-toned women like Sharon Davies and Jet from Gladiators."

this is more attractive than those anorexic models?

LH Pathe

I have seen my share here with the recession. and they are swapping 3 stripes for 2, though not as a declaration I'd imagine. That imitation shïts just cheaper

amacachi

Is it just my imagination or have the models used in each Boohoo.com ad over the last few months been progressively thinner and thinner?

Jesus Wept

Should models who are medically obese be banned also?

Dudess

The-Rigger wrote: »

Should models who are medically obese be banned also?

Banned from what? They ain't on the catwalk.

kowloon

Red Hand wrote: »

Not to mention airbrushing. The TV campaign of the 48 Go Conquer ad campaign (which I loath on so many levels) has one of the models kind of dancing. Then on the billboard, the same model is posing with her hands on her hips and her upper arms look so wrong. In the ad, they look normal, but in the billboard poster they are airbrushed to almost the size her wrist is.

God, I hate those f*cking ads!:pac:

Had to look that up. What the hell is that muck? What's with the American narration? Is there a mobile network for grown ups only?

LH Pathe

well I for more like half of one won't be pushing my skinny wares on anyone, so at ease.