london fashion week: debate

Morbyd said:
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If seeing skinny people gives someone 'issues', then I think that person needs to deal with those issues.
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It gives me issues because they remind me of some scenes from Schindler's List! :?

They just dont look attractive, and the dress they wear might be amazing, but they might as well wear it on a hanger
 
Ferd said:
It gives me issues because they remind me of some scenes from Schindler's List! :?

They just dont look attractive, and the dress they wear might be amazing, but they might as well wear it on a hanger
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Exactly, that's the point. Morbyd, the girls that weren't accepted were not skinny, they are extremly skinned and have an un-healthy look
 
silvia said:
I do belive that education it's all about the parents, but you can't forget the society factor cos it seems it's more and more important every day (and sometimes I think it's more and more wrong everyday)
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You're right, it is more and more important. But I think it's becoming more and more important because parents have stepped back from their roles. It's partly because people are busy with work and all... but, and this is especially true in the States and I think in the UK as well, people are projecting their own parental failings onto the influences of various things in society. It drives me crazy...

Random example I can think of: Jackie Kennedy was quite thin, but she wasn't accused of encouraging anorexia despite having far more TV exposure than your average waif model today. Ah, how times have changed!
 
silvia said:
Madrid fashion week didn't accept five models cos they are <1,75 cm and >55 kg. Convert it into your mesures and you'll see it's REALLY skinny.
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I'm 1,75 and I'd love to weigh just 55kg! Ok, maybe not... but 70 would be good...

You're right, though.. I haven't seen exactly how skinny these super-skinny rejects were. I suppose if they look like Eritrean refugees, you might want to keep them out of the show... more because it's unattractive than for any grander social reason!
 
Morbyd said:
Random example I can think of: Jackie Kennedy was quite thin, but she wasn't accused of encouraging anorexia despite having far more TV exposure than your average waif model today. Ah, how times have changed!
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Jacky Kennedy was quite thin, she wasn't 55 kg and 1,75.
 
I do think that a lot of models look awful. Bones jutting out in all directions is not a good look. Quite why anyone doesn't tell them this and actually pays them good money to parade down a catwalk as a symbol of beauty is very upsetting. It certainly does make people think that 'thin is in'.

Imo, sexiness and beauty is about being toned and happy with your body. Not starving yourself, to be a size 0 or living off green leaves and diet Coke like poor Luisel Ramos, the girl who collapsed and died, ironically after coming off the catwalk having been applauded for her looks. She'd been told that to make it big, she needed to lose more weight and now she's dead. :(

However, someone like Giselle, by the new 'rules', wouldn't be allowed to go down the runway and she looks fine to me. I suppose some beauty are just naturally slim but others are too thin and it does send out entirely the wrong message. Magazines go on about how Nicole Ritche is dangerously thin but yet have pictures of skeletons on their fashion pages. No wonder so many girls become anorexic. Whilst I do think other factors play a part on people having a confused body image. it certainly doesn't help.

When pictures like the one below are posted on websites, along with comments about how jealous people are of how they look, something does need to be done.

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Never mind banning skinny models (although i wouldn't be against it either) they should ban those pompus pretentious twats that polulate these fashion shows.. "oh dahhhllling you look fab today" fcuk sake:roll:
 
Some people are just naturally skinny, take Kate Moss for example. I cant imagine her going on any crash diets to lose weight, she seems like she has always been that weight, ever since she first broke onto the scene at 14yrs old. She is just one of those naturally small boned, slim creatures!
It's the 6ft tall models that disturb me, you can tell their natural weight should be about a stone more, yet they look so gaunt and grey skinned they must have some kind of eating disorder!

Oh.... and I dont think its just models who are to blame. I'm equally disturbed by Posh Spice's weird little body - the size of a small boy but with enormous bazookas stuck on the front of her chest 8O Disturbing.
 
I don't think they should be banned

It's highly hypocritical for the industry who created them to reject them from a moral highground.

Banning skinny models from catwalks alone will do fck all. It would have to be the same for magazines and advertising too. Otherwise you'll have one look on the catwalk and one look across the rest of the industry.

The model agencies should ensure all girls are healthy in terms of key criteria such as blood pressure, etc, etc on a regular basis as many skinny girls are very healthy too. I'm not sure if they do or not, but they should.

If anyone thinks they should ban skinny models, they should stop buying products from firms who use skinny models and magazines because until you do it won't make any difference.

Skinny and big girls can look great. But buying clothes is often aspirational. And not many women i know aspire to be bigger.

I am in the process of creating a hostel for out of work models who have been rejected. I should get 50 to a room by the looks of things.
 
Yeah I base it on health rather than how skinny, but I though that was what they were doing?

I find it ironic that for the past 3 years our press and goverment have been banging out about how unhealthy our kids our, that they are overweight. This on top of seeing super skinny models has probably prompted kids to hardly eat; which has resulted in a nation coming though of skinny people. Paradoxially, they are now advising skinny models to put on weight.
 
I cant for the life of me understand how anyone could think that stick thin models are in any way atttractive because they are the complete opposite IMO,give me a girl with a bit of meat anyway;)
 
sandi said:
I'm as of yet to see all these super skinny girls in the UK that are supposedly copying the models?

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Then why are there so many sites out there with young girls (under 16) going on about how they hate themselves and posting pictures of extremely slim models up, saying they'd kill to look like them?

Very sad.
 
Clara said:
Then why are there so many sites out there with young girls (under 16) going on about how they hate themselves and posting pictures of extremely slim models up, saying they'd kill to look like them?

Very sad.
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I can't speak for all those sites, I'm saying I've not actually seen all these skinny girls with my eyes.
 
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