Source: Cult Noise Magazine
I like looking at fashion models. The beauty they possess raises them to herrenvolk status for a reason. When they glide through us commoners, we stop to gawk at them. If a woman has an average height of 161cm and is size 16, then someone who is size six and 172cm tall is a genetic oddity that the fashion industry deems marketable. Models sell a type of happiness that us plebs will never achieve, no matter what we spend, and we’re pissed off over nothing. Despite this, the chosen ones got their exclusive job by chance.
Society’s attitude to beauty is a bipolar joke.
The fashion industry will always find ways to make a profit but its consumers are worse. First they idolise models for a particular quality but attack them for the same thing. Once again however, this catfight over skinny models became noticeable at the recently concluded Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Sydney, with models caught between the warring camps.
From the start the industry has been a perfume-drenched turd but at least its requirements for models are consistent. Yet by calling for ‘real’ women on the catwalk yet still buying into the unattainable, fashion’s victims wilfully ignore their own bullshit.
People seem to forget the factors that let a person model are often decided before birth and the arbitrariness of it all is cruel. Each event around a person’s birth must link together perfectly and it can mean the difference between a catwalk in Milan or a job at Supre.
Shit, if the mix of Mr. and Mrs. Kerr was off by a fraction, then fashion darling Miranda would be no one. If ‘beauty’ is determined by a sensual act, why are we attacking the individual that results?
Society’s attitude to beauty is a bipolar joke.
No matter how many plus size modelling agencies are opened or the amount of Dove campaigns for real beauty are launched, Victoria’s Secret will always win and it should. The former is PC trash that’s supposed to make people feel happier, even when the runways of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and other shows are off limits to all but a select few.
Is it bad if this practice continues? Hell, why not make the requirements for catwalk models even stricter? Size six will remain but the new criteria must demand a minimum height of 177cm and a D cup. Okay I’ll stop.
The debate over skinny fashion models will never end and it’s ultimately about the attainability of an image. The fashion machine simply exists because it’s profitable and if a person can live off their looks, can we fault them? Should we fault them? Yet people who complain the bar is unrealistically high need their heads checked because they buy someone else’s idea of beauty each time they shop Visa at Sass and Bide.
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