The Death Of Size Zero?

Times Online:

It's a nice thought. The Times of London announced the end of super-skinny models.

At last, slowly and from within, it seems fashion is falling back in love with the things that make women truly beautiful: confidence, sex appeal, health. They're lauding the ample, sexy behind of Joan, Mad Men's smoking-hot secretary, and beginning to reject the boniness of eastern European skinny-minnies. Could it be that, finally, we can put those two incendiary little words, "size" and "zero", behind us...and that [model Daisy] Lowe and her softly cut ilk are the poster girls for a new aesthetic of womanliness and personality that lies ahead? While catwalk girls will always be thin, there has been a bit more bounce lately in the bottoms and flesh on the bones that walk in London, Paris, New York and Milan.

It's been in the air for a while. The real titans, the ones who kept their lips buttoned when the size-zero debate raged, have also begun to speak out. Kate Moss was overheard saying how sexy Lowe and the shapely girls sporting hundred-quid frillies looked at the recent AP perfume launch.

However, September's New York Fashion Week provided evidence to the contrary. See these images of the super skinny models still coming down runways.

Read the whole story: Times Online

Comments

[Tamoomoo]

While I think it's unfair the fashion industry thinks sz 4 is fat, I also think it's unfair to say small women are not "real women". Come on.

[chroma601]

It's not they they are truly biologically female. Of course they are. The issue is that up till the 20th century the ideal of feminine beauty beauty was much fully figured than it has become.

From the Judgment of Paris website:

The modern fetish for thinness is therefore an unnatural aberration, unprecedented in aesthetic history. Throughout the ages, man has revered one ideal, and one alone--the true ideal, a healthy ideal, an image of genuine beauty--while our degenerate modern age has displaced it with a false ideal, a toxic standard, an image of unnatural androgyny.

Little wonder, then, that this alien, modern standard inflicts untold misery on the women who are duped into pursuing it, prompting them to endure senseless diet-starvation and gym-torture (at which their bodies understandably rebel).

By contrast, the timeless, full-figured ideal is in tune with natural desires. The feminine enjoyment of eating is a physical reward that evolved over the ages, as the body's way of encouraging women to develop an attractive, well-nourished appearance.

The solution to the blight of today's emaciated media standard is to restore the timeless ideal of full-figured femininity, not do away with ideals altogether, in favour of homely "reality."

[chroma601]

Lowe is still pretty thin. So the fashion industry is moving from "emaciated" to "very thin". I guess that could be called an improvement, but it's not enough.

Please check out http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ for real the concept of real women and timeless beauty in fashion.

[Mr Grey]

Not nearly enough. When ever I see a pic of a regular runway model they all still look anorexic. Bikini and swimsuit shots show this most especially. So called "plus size" models are getting into some regular catalogs and on some runways, but they are the exception not the rule.

[Formeralaskangal]

I'm never going to be anywhere near a size zero. I love food too much, and lack the "discipline" to be anorexic. I enjoy my curves, but I also enjoy the places on my frame where my bones stick out too. I'd like to see more healthy looking models that can represent more of us "real women" in all different sizes, shapes, ages, and colors.

[Badbone]

Thin women aren't real? What are they, cyborgs?

[chroma601]

They look more boyish than womanly. No curves.

[Tamoomoo]

Just because a woman is thin doesn't mean she's not a real woman. That's really unfair and pretty sexist.

[Badbone]

Let's have more chubby women. Because most women are chubby. And we certainly don't want to make them feel bad. It's an impossible standard of beauty in those ads. Remove them.

Oh, those GQ ads? Where the *men* are impossibly gorgeous? That's ok. No need to remove those.

The death of the size zero woman. And the continuation of the gorgeous male model. That's equality!

[Haditup2here]

Exposed ribs. . . that's a nice look (NOT!!).