Hey, look, a woman who looks like a woman.

[elfs]

So take a look at this picture: She's apparently a fashion model for a lingere show. And she's got meat on her bones. She looks like a woman. I mean, is that even legal?

It's nice to see a fashion show where at least some of the women onstage don't look underage and underfed.

Comments

[gromm.livejournal.com]

That's part of the dichotomy of the fashion world. If you're showing off lingerie, you want voluptuous models. If you're showing off dresses, you want rail-thin models.

I can understand the lingerie thing. But I can't understand the dress thing.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[polydad.livejournal.com]

*She* looks fine. Different lingerie would be better, or do without.

best,

Joel

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

My late father would look at a starvation-victim model or actress and say, "Who would want her? It'd be like fucking a bicycle!"

ROFLMAO!

I must remember that one! ^_^

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

One of the things that makes her look hot (and real) is her smile. The body is tasty, too, but she doesn't have that stoned look that seems so popular on the runways. Makes me want to do things to make her smile like that.

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

It's easier to make the dress drape properly if the designer doesn't have to worry about shaping it to fit over the curves of the model's body. It's laziness on the part of the dress designers -- plus, what they're after is to show off their design, not the model's body. So the models are chosen to minimize the effect their body will have on the way the dress hangs.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Another reason for selecting anorexics as runway models is that they're supposed to be nothing more than walking clothes-racks - their purpose is to show off the designs. And anything, no matter how outlandish or complicated, looks good on a skinny woman.

Except that they don't. I can't tell you how many times I've seen dresses or other outfits on these skinny anorexic women and thought, "My gods, that woman looks absolutely horrific...I would never wear that dress; it would make me look just as awful."

So, if their goal is to get me to wear the dress because it looks good on a skinny woman, because I think the skinny woman looks ugly, and I associate the dress with the ugly skinny woman, they've failed. I wonder how many other women feel the same as myself?

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I wonder if runway fashion is like certain types of art or literature, perhaps even some restaurants. The whole idea that anyone who doesn't like it isn't cultured or in the know, the idiotic elitism.

After all good food for example is fantastic, but most people find it a little pointless if they are still hungry afterwards because it is taste over the basic purpose of food - to sustain you (talking about portion sizes). Perhaps similarly here, the so-called art over what 99.9% of people can appreciate in clothes.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[laplor.livejournal.com]

A humorous ad explaining the thinking behind runway fashion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7jRP-nTOI

It really has the ring of truth.

[kiki-the-great.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this thread.... I am curvy, and self conscious on occasion.... its nice to be reassured that not all men like waifs... as my friend Chris (a fashion photographer, no less) said to me, 'Skinny has been in for 40 years, healthy has been in for 2000; you win, now lets go to Starbucks'.