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Spread Um: Abbey Lee Kershaw for Dazed & Confused. It’s Official, Abbey’s the New Aggy

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Our little runway fainter, Abbey Lee Kershaw rocks some killer Gareth Pugh looks for this month’s issue of Dazed & Confused. It looks like she’s staring in some sort of Japanese slasher flick but the images are undeniably sick.

Abbey you just became my new Aggy.

Abbey Lee Kershaw Faints At McQueen. Do We Officially Have a Martyr for the Ano’s of the World?

This weekend, Australian model Abbey Lee Kershaw fainted on the runway of Alexander McQueen. The industry is blaming a tight corset for causing the problem, but I feel this is just another notch on the belt of insiders who are looking to enforce stricter rules on the fashion industry. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for healthy body images on the runway, but I feel it’s a bigger problem than just making sure size 4 girls hit the catwalk.

Here’s what happened according to Frockwriter.

“When she was coming to the end [of the runway], back near the [entrance] ramp, I could tell she was having difficulties, because her steps were getting shorter and shorter, they were more like baby steps. I was reading her face and I could see ’struggle’ all over it and I was thinking, ‘She’s not going to make it’. But then she made it to the top of the animals and I thought she was OK, that’s why I turned my back on her to to go back to the main room.

Of course, now Abbey Lee will become the poster child for anorexia (if no one has made this claim yet, let us be the first to speculate) and she will be asked to come onto a couple of news stations and magazines will call her for shoots to show that she is in fact (now) healthy and/or is battling a disease which plagues millions of girls. Anything to prevent Alexander McQueen from looking like a designer who makes dresses that are hazardous to your health (if people faint from wearing your garments, you know you’re gonna have a few problems with wholesales). Either way this probably won’t be the last we see from Abbey Lee, who is quickly becoming infamous for her runway snafu’s (she also recently took a tumble on the runway of Rodarte).

Get to know this girl. She’ll either be the next Ali Michael and become a champion for women with eating disorders everywhere, or she’ll become the next Agyness Deyn and will hit the covers of magazines everywhere in an attempt by the industry to prevent this “faint” girl from casting a bad shadow on the house of McQueen.

Want to see a healthier version of Abbey Lee, check out this shoot from 10 Magazine…

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