Fashion + Beauty
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Some Designers Really Hate "Fat" Women (Like Barbie!?!)
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It’s all about change in the fashion
world right now—designers are livestreaming their runway shows (or
trying anyway), shoppers can snap up fall Chloe bags on their
iPhones, and magazines like
Glamour
and
Marie Claire are making an effort to include plus-size
women in their formerly stick-thin pages. But not everyone is down
with the plan, and design legends Karl Lagerfeld and Christian
Louboutin seem to be the most conscientious objectors, today
anyway.
When asked what he thought about German magazine
Brigitte‘s decision to ban thin models from its pages,
Old Looselips Lagerfeld quipped, “No one wants to see curvy women.
You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of
the television and saying thin models are ugly.” He deems the whole
practice “absurd.”
If you think that’s offensive, check out shoe guru Louboutin,
who was charged with creating a special-edition Barbie (please, no more of those!)
to be released in time for the Cannes Film Festival. He felt the
need to redesign the iconic doll’s infamous figure (already a
controversial matter of national emergency-level debate) because
she wasn’t quite “sexy” enough for him. His spokesperson told
WWD that he had to do some tinkering: “He found her ankles
were too fat.” Wow, isn’t your publicist’s job to spin statements
like that for damage control purposes? Sheesh. If Barbie’s ankles
are too fat, what human does he deem fit to wear his signature red
soles? Maybe it was a joke. Let’s hope so. [The
Standard and
WWD]--The
Frisky
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Posted by Fiffie Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:37pm PDT
yes and all "thin" models do is smoke crack to stay thin, vomit or don't eat at all.....they look like skeletor and IT THAT IS NOT ATTRACTIVE!!!!
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Posted by BetsyE Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:23pm PDT
I modeled for several years, and during that time I never once took drugs, dieted, starved, threw up, or smoked even one cigarette. I am thin because I genetically have a tall frame and a fast metabolism. It has nothing to do with unhealthy eating or drug abuse. I have close friends of all shapes and sizes, and I have never once put someone down for having a differnt body type than me. I find it extremely offensive when people ignorantly make blanket statements about models. It is one thing to criticise those designers for promoting a warped and exclusive idea of beauty, but making attacks on "all thin models" is rude and small minded.
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Posted by blk_college_girl4u Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:58pm PDT
This should show people that this is a world wide problem...beauty is just more then whats in the outside...instead of having town hall meeting on the president WE all should be protesting this fashion designers who are brainwashing our young women
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Posted by Mysterious Gryphon Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:02pm PDT
CURVY does not mean fat. No matter what BS people give us about a size 8 being "plus". CURVY means that you have an ADULT figure. As in, breasts and hips. As in, yes, I menstruate.
I have been a variety of different sizes. Currently, I wear an 8, but I have also been a 4 and a 14. No matter what my dress size, though, I am ALWAYS a DD. I have curves. I am not fat. I am CURVY.
We need to stop using curvy as a clever euphemism for "fat". They are not the same thing.
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Posted by becca Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:01pm PDT
Barbie's ankles are too fat? wtf? she has like no ankle! Anyways, I am a young woman who is the proper weight for my age and height. I do not like twig models because when I go out, I don't see people that actually look like that unless they are too young to even be able to get money for designer clothes. I think that if these designers really want to sell stuff, they should makes clothes for people of all shapes and sizes. I'm sure they do well as it is, but I honestly beleive that they could do much better if they included what they consider plus size, and what normal people consider plus size in their designs.
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Posted by The Mims Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:36pm PDT
The fashion industry is run by gay men who like the look of teenage boys. Hence the thin, boy-like models. Why aren't women boycotting these weirdos? Women gobble up things like Sex & The City rather than boycott the designers who promote this idea.
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Posted by liliflowers Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:49am PDT
I agree with Mysterious Gryphon: CURVY DOESN'T MEAN FAT! FAT IS FAT! People need to stop using the word curvy when they mean PLUMP, FAT, OVER WEIGHT, OBESE, CORPULANT, OR CHUNKY!!!!
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Posted by Cat Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:58am PDT
There is a fine line between acceptance and over glorification. At the moment, the world is so caught up in accepting "fat" women, we are taking it a bit to far. The other day I saw a swimsuit model in the mall on a giant poster, so morbidly obese it wasn't healthy. I was thinking to myself "so now we've gone from encouraging children to be thinner than natural to telling them that fat is healthy?" There is a difference between curvy, a healthy weight, and obese. I am just waiting for designer to find the happy medium, and if they really can't, it would be better if designer had a vareity of models on their runways; curvy, thin, and somewhere in between.
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Posted by greenteddy Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:23pm PDT
if they sonsider barbie fat...i must be obese!!!
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