Cindy Crawford: too FAT
Cindy Crawford has spoken out about the current state of the fashion industry, telling German magazine Bunty:
"I would not have become a supermodel in 2009. I look too healthy."
Too healthy?
I've never heard of such as thing as being too healthy... unless you're looking at it in terms of the fashion industry it would seem.
So, we should all be aspiring to unhealthy levels of skinny in order to be successful should we? Well, that's evident - look how the body mass of the certain celebs I've blogged about recently has deteriorated significantly the more successful they have become.
In the fashion industry's terms, too healthy would be translated as 'too fat'.
So what if the industry can't find their ideal in human form? Well, they just photoshop the model to make them look 'perfect' instead, then place them in front of every body conscious woman/man possible and portray this ultra skinny, ultra unhealthy 'person' as the new beauty.
In actual fact, should most of us ever end up as skinny as some of the images we see, it is not this smooth, glowing, perfectly toned face and body we would see staring back at us, but a bony, frail, pale (depending on how much sun/fake tan you've exposed yourself to) shadow of a human being.
Need any further convincing? Take a look at this image:
This is a 5'10" American size 4 (UK 8) model, who was fired for being 'too fat' to continue modelling for Ralph Lauren - who she has been modelling for since the age of 15.
Being already tiny (see right), she was photoshopped to the point of looking not only like a lollipop head, but like an exaggerated character in a fashion illustration or cartoon for a recent Ralph Lauren ad campaign (see left), that is not humanly possible to achieve without becoming seriously ill. Luckily, the model in question has spoken out about this and refused to become thinner in order to 'fit' any designers campaigns.
Crazy! WHY on earth would you want a model to look that ridiculously emaciated? It's not doing the clothes any further favours than a more normal size 8-10 model would!
It seems that no matter how much we campaign about models being so scarily thin, designers just aren't listening. At what point of the models starving themselves to fit the industry's ideal is someone going to finally stop and say 'enough'? AND that be it?
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