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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Once again, there is a story in the media about the fashion industry's obsession with extreme thinness. It seems that Ralph Lauren gave 5'10" 120 lb model Filippa Hamilton the boot for getting too fat. A few months ago, they also photoshopped her into an anatomically inaccurate famine victim.

It shouldn't be news to anyone that the fashion industry is dominated by gay men who find women attractive only when they look like young boys. For them, femininity is what makes gay male bottoms look enticing, and what femininity does for women doesn't really register. Designers also claim that because models are hired to act as clothes hangers, they need to stay very thin.

But I don't buy this anymore. These excuses are repeated so often that people don't stop to think about the baseless nature of these claims. If designers want clothes on hangers, why don't they just put them on hangers and mechanically lift them onto the runway? And why exactly are the clothes supposed to be on human hangers? In the 80s, fashion models were attractive to normal people and the concept of fashion didn't collapse because of this. The idea is supposed to be that the clothing becomes fashionable, which means that some real women will wear them. And why do men with no interest in female bodies insist on making careers out of designing/presenting/marketing etc clothing for the female body?


Here is supermodel, Snejana Onopka, presumably in Ukraine before she was discovered. She is rather thin, but not unhealthy looking.



Later, she found it advantageous to make herself emaciated at 5-10" 99 lbs, and this effort made her one of the most coveted models in the fashion world.




I understand that gay men feel indifference towards the attractiveness in females, but what they insist on promoting on the catwalk reflects more than mere indifference. That woman is starving. That isn't how she looked before she became a model. What exactly prevents the gay men in the fashion industry from looking at someone like this and admitting that they are causing a person to starve for no reason?

Many runway models are from less well off countries. South American nations and Eastern European nations are very overrepresented on the catwalk. Women like Snejana in countries like Ukraine are given two choices: they can starve or they can be poor. If they refuse to starve themselves, then they give up a life of travel, glamour, fame and fortune in favor of a life of drudgery in a struggling economy. For all the attention given to making high fashion represent elitism, sophistication and luxury, runway models often come from the most humble backgrounds. Some are refugees trying to escape genocide. Some speak of the third world farms they left behind as teenagers. Somehow the cruelty of the choice thrust on teenage girls in developing countries does not at all weigh on the consciences of fashion designers.

Look at this:



What person looks at that and contemplates the aesthetic value of the dress? That spectacle is not an artistic expression intended to render the wearer invisible so that the clothing becomes the focus. Her shocking presence steals the focus from the dress. She does not look like a hanger. She does not look like a pre pubertal boy. Anyone with a pair of eyes can see that she looks like a woman who is starving to death. Outside of the most shallow and image obsessed people in the fashion industry, who have tried everything to brainwash themselves into thinking that woman is something one should look upon with calm composure, anyone who sees that image experiences a visceral reaction of horror.

That model, Vlada Rosylkova, quickly became one of the fashion industry's "it" girls. The marketing ploy that hypes her up says that her face has some special quality coveted by designers. Please. Who buys these lies? The fashion industry barely cares what the face looks like (pale and sickly in her case). They promote Vlada because she looks like a walking corpse. That's what is special about her.

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