From model Karlie Kloss:
my body became more womanly....hips and thighs appeared....I started losing jobs.
Keep in mind here that many would argue that even now, she's quite slender. What she's saying, really, is that the fashion industry's view of a woman doesn't exactly equate to how women are actually built. I know that it makes the sewing more difficult, but I do have the dream that someday, somewhere, a fashion designer will figure out how to clothe real women instead of the "boys with breasts" that inhabit fashion runways.
One week later
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As things were happening last week, I wrote a post below that is likely
wrong. We know more now. Two things have become clear this week:
1) The local ap...
1 day ago
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I think the ORIGINAL thinking was that models should be walking clothes hangars, so that obviously the clothing would look better on the people who owned it. And then models became the standard for beauty, and everything got turned on its head.
The rise of the gay male designer as default is... um.. telling. I'll take Grandpa R. Lauren's designs any day....
Agreed. I just think that if the model is there to suggest what the clothing ought to look like on a real person, that maybe, just maybe, the model ought to have some of the curves of a real person so you'd know whether they did tucks and so on correctly.
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