Friday, 19 June 2009
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Vogue Enters the Size-Zero War
Alexandra Shulman, the editor of UK Vogue, has accused major fashion houses and designers for forcing her to hire models with "jutting bones and no breasts or hips" to fit the sample size clothing she is given. You can see the article here.
Shulman is a great and important figure in the fashion industry. Do you think she is an innovative leader in the size-zero war, or is she just shifting the blame onto fashion designers? How do you feel when you see a size-zero model on the cover of Vogue or any other magazine?
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Comments (11)
What does the women sizing for clothes mean? Size 0, size 1, size 25 ... So complicated
Well, I'm a size 2 most of the time, and I recently purchased a size 0 dress that fit. However, I'm 5'2", so it's appropriate.
I think it's ridiculous that they pick these 5'9" size 0 girls as the norm'. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but we as consumers need a wider variety of female sizes to look at and base our images on--not just that one.
I wish that they would put different shapes and sizes on covers of magazines.
I have a size zero penis but they won't put that on the cover :D
= [ It's depressing sometimes because it may look good on the outside on other people's perspective but it has a bad side, it can be a bad influence to some girls out there. Who becomes so insecure that they began having eating disorder. =/
More curves is what we need on magazine covers!! yay!! hehehe XD Healthy looking models!
Vogue is such a major fashion magazine and if they're going to put a model who looks like she hasn't eaten for days, then they're sending out the wrong message. I don't think any one person or group is to blame. All who are involved with the magazine and the modeling are to blame.
Personally, I think Vogue is just blaming other people. the editor could have simply refused to use the clothing. If she is that big of a figure in the industry...
That woman's body looks gross, but who looks at fashion magazines besides women and gay guys?
I'm kind of torn on this. On the one hand, we obviously do not want society and its productions to glorify eating disorders and unhealthy lifestyles, even if there is no link between the appearance of ultra-skinny models in magazines and middle school eating disorders.
On the other hand, we also should not punish those models who simply happen to be naturally thin. Before I got pregnant I was naturally a size 0; I ate what I wanted, when I wanted, and never once counted a calorie. To be honest, now that I'm pregnant, it's been fun watching my belly get all round -- first time in my life I've felt like a girly girl, even though I know that if I was this shape for any other reason, it would actually be unhealthy and contrary to my personal body type.
One would think the simple balance would be to simply include models of all sizes, so that instead of sending the message "skinny is good," we may be told "all sizes are neither good nor bad; they just ARE." I don't mean "plus-sized" modeling, I mean some size 8s rocking the catwalk, as long as 8 is an appropriate size for that person's height, body type and health. 8 would be ridiculously overweight on my body.
@Rejected_Stone - I think a lot of girls don't realize that men don't find stick women as sexy. Thanks for helping to get the word out :)
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