Stick-thin models being banned from runways
As the father of a young daughter, it’s about time. It started with a show in Madrid on Monday, where the Spanish Association of Fashion Designers banned models with a BMI under 18. Now the Edinburgh Fashion Festival is following suit. As are Milan and possibly London. Right now, the average BMI of runway models in only 16, so it’s not a huge jump. But it is a step in the right direction. It means that a 5 foot 9 inch model would have to weigh 123 lbs instead of the average 110 lbs. My wife is 5 foot 9 inches. I couldn’t imagine her weighing less than 145 and looking healthy or attractive. This is not attractive:
And it certainly isn’t healthy. And I don’t want people trying to convince my daughter that it is either.
Normally, I don’t like government interference, so I’m glad that the fashion industry is starting to regulate this. But if they can’t, the governments need to step in. People are dying:
Last month, a South American model, Luisel Ramos, died from heart failure minutes after stepping off the catwalk.
The 22-year-old had been told by a model agency that she could “make it big” if she lost a significant amount of weight, and for three months she was said to have eaten nothing but green leaves and drunk only Diet Coke. At the time she hit the catwalk at the Radisson Victoria Plaza in Montevideo, Uruguay, she had not eaten for two weeks, her father told police.
Oh my! Now that is just gross.
I just really don’t get how that is our “ideal” of beauty. I don’t think I could find anyone who finds that attractive. My first reaction would be to try to take her to the hospital.
Read the artcile on :
blog.fashionwindows.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/02/models/
an see what happened after that in the Paris Fashion Week…
Where’s the beauty in that? It might be the dress, but not what is inside!!!!! It’s not natural.
[...] I’m always discovering new horrible things that women have done in order to fit into beauty standards now and in the past. Whether it is the recent Western Barbie-doll ideal, Muslim women spending their lives hidden from the world, or Chinese children having their feet bound or many, many others; men (and the women they use as enforcers) have forced women to go through entire lives of abuse and shame in order to look the right way. [...]
This is first time in my life when I don’t know what to say. After reading all comments I’m shocked. What has happened with our society, with our young generation? They are commenting terrible information, their lexis sounds terrible. Is that true, that only words they know is “cool”, “cute” and cussing words? What are they thinking of? It’s better not to think about it, it’s too sad