Edited by Nicole Vardo
Who doesn’t want to look model thin, if only this were a perfect world we could all look amazing 24/7. But sadly we are not… even though a bit sarcastic here are the ten conclusions of my anti-food weekend. “Live by the scale and the measuring tape. Unlike people, they will not lie to you.”
Edited by The Fashion Web
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
This girl is so thin that it makes me sick. Especially since her head is so non proportionally large, making it seem that she is not naturally like this. Completely sickening!
Edited by Monique Montagnese, Contributor
Alexandra Shulamn’s statements that established models and new “celebrity” models (such as Peaches Geldof – not really sure how we feel about the editor of Vogue calling her a model, but ok) aren’t fitting into sample sizes is frightening. We’re in fashion, we get it: model’s are skinny, very skinny. But do they need to get skinnier? I think not. Honestly, I don’t think they can get much skinnier without fainting as they walk down the catwalk….
Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student
We never thought we’d see the day when actual complaints would be filed against images in a catalogue. I’ve heard of countless people who complain about increasingly skinny models to their friends, but will simply close a magazine and leave it on their coffee table without a word to the people who allow it to happen. Well, those days are over. And boy are we thrilled! When people started to flip through the pages of the Simons department store catalogue, disgust was not even a word good enough to describe the reaction. Rail-thin models, clearly unhealthy, filled each and every page of their advertising campaign. After the print of 450,000 copies there was a whopping 200 complaints and demands that the catalogue be halted in production. I know 200 of 450,000 doesn’t sound like much. But come on, sometimes there is hardly even one. The family company president, Peter Simons, claims he never laid eyes on the catalogue until they were sent out to the various consumers. He too, feels that the images were “unsuitable” for the company image or any image for that matter. It’s clear everyone is pushing to get involved. Nice Work!
Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student
The movement refuses to die down! Don’t get us wrong, that’s not a bad thing! The CFDA has been taking the world by and storm and recently there has been news of booths that are being set up in Bryant Park, which will be dedicated to health information. The booths will be equipped with brochures concerning eating disorders. Facilities, such as the Renfrew Center, will be helping out with the booths, which will be set up throughout the lobby and backstage. Steven Kolb of the CFDA says:
“[W]e will have a clinician on site who is going to be there to answer specific questions, provide referrals and basically perform overall outreach to any person who might be interested in treatment or may be worried about someone they are working with.”
It seems as though people are really making an effort to stay away from a size 0. Finally, a movement that won’t let up!
Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student
Indies..Meet Tatiana Stewart. She recently moved to New York City to become a ballet dancer, but soon found her niche in the harsh realities of the modeling industry. We’ve recently been talking about the backtracking taken from a recent step in the right direction when it comes to super-skinny models. This is, yet again, another step in the wrong direction.
18 year old Tatiana is an accomplished young woman who came to New York looking for success in her talents. When she was scouted to model clothing in Abercrombie & Fitch she discovered yet another skill she could take into consideration. Well, at least she thought she could. This is no issue with the agencies; Ford, Click and Elite Modeling came to Tatiana’s beck and call, but picky designers, photographers and reality show casting directors can’t seem to be put in their place.
America’s Next Top Model showed a definite interest in Tatiana, but when screen tests rolled around and models were asked to lift up their shirts to bare their abdomens Tatiana was dismissed. Though the CW is claiming they don’t have weight guidelines, lets face it, to them, she wasn’t skinny enough to be a skinny model. The basics of her casting call advice have been to take her size four, six-two body and shrink it to a “loose size two”. That’s ten to fifteen pounds on an already super-skinny frame! What are they thinking!
