Robbie Myers Talks Curves, Says "We Do Want A Little Idealization In Our Models" (VIDEO)

Elle Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers (minus her signature beehive hairdo!) talked to Ann Curry on "The Today Show" this morning about curves making a comeback. She explained that "women are more comfortable in their own skin," and pointed to recent examples of bigger (read: not size 0, but still thin) models on the runway, like at Louis Vuitton. However, Myers mentioned a study that found that average women are not actually inspired to look at women who look like them, they're inspired by women above average. She said, "We do want a little idealization in our models and movie stars."

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Comments

[jaqula]

05:28 PM on 05/26/2010

I'm not a wafer thin woman by any means...I'm 5'6" 135 pounds. But I'm very healthy and happy with the way I look and feel. However it cracks me up the way some people in the industry label huge, fat women as having "curves" when what they really have is FAT. There is nothing healthy about fat, I don't care who is carrying it or what they say...it's not to anyones benefit to be schlepping around 20, 30, 40 or more pounds of blubber and labeling that heart straining excess as "CURVES!"

[chillwind]

04:00 PM on 05/06/2010

Just say no - to 80's hairdos.

[Atchka]

04:27 PM on 05/04/2010

What is "inspirational" about being thin? Seriously, does being thin really improve your life over being fat? It seems like the problem with being fat is that there is a problem with being fat. The women I know who are confident with the bodies they have (fat or not) are the real inspiration, not the thin woman who struggles to maintain her weight below a certain level (lest she lose a lucrative contract) and not the fat woman who frets about every pound and spends her entire life plotting her way to thinness.

Confidence is inspirational, not your body.

Peace,
Shannon
Atchka.com
FierceFatties.com

[chroma601]

10:37 AM on 05/04/2010

Nothing ideal to me about emaciation!

[ChoppyBob]

09:39 AM on 05/04/2010

when did "voluptuous" acquire an M!!!

Drives me crazy! Like her crazy eyes!

[wietogger]

04:23 AM on 05/04/2010

Oh for god's sake - enough!

If you are attractive, you are attractive. We should strive to be healthy and happy and create our OWN style. Stop mimicking the celebrities and models who are styled by a very few picky people who make up rules as they go along.

[Queen Cassandra]

04:00 AM on 05/04/2010

Curves never left.

[graywolf68]

09:23 PM on 05/03/2010

It used to be that women and men for that matter wanted women to have the bodies of the goddesses of mythology.

Then someone in the fashion industry decided that women should look like the pillar NEXT to the goddess. Ultimately it came down to society wanting women to look like the stick, holding up the weak scrawny sapling, next to the pillar, next to the goddess.

If we didn't take this turn back to the classic, beautiful, womanly figure, I believe the fashion industry would have just started hanging their designs on a pole and calling it "perfect".

[mltmama]

11:31 AM on 05/06/2010

This is good. Funny. Curves never left. I love mine and I'm healthy and not starving. It's all economics. When they dress sticks, they don't have to worry about fittings and allowing for the curves and different body shapes. A stick is a stick. Put it on, slide it down, and that's it.

[OverIt]

07:14 PM on 05/03/2010

Sorry. Her beehive was a HOT MESS and so is this look. She has no business giving out BEAUTY advice. She looks positively dehydrated and hungry.

[OverIt]

07:17 PM on 05/03/2010

And don't get me started about the crazy eyes.

[rivergirl301]

10:54 PM on 05/03/2010

She looks like that gal in "Something About Mary," who used spermatozoa for hair gel!

[coco51]

06:01 PM on 05/03/2010

I often wonder who these polled women are and where they live?! I know I do not idealize "hangers" I' actually repulsed. I admire sizes 6 to 12, they look healthy and clothing fits their bodies much than size 0. I hate seing those sticks for arms and legs, necks that look like the stair spindles holding up a watermelon, those collar bones and hips that look like they could cut you!!! sorry but if you aren't suffering from some debilitating illness or starvation living in a wartorn country or country suffering from a drought, there is no rhyme or reason for someone in developing countries to look like that.

[Tenfour]

08:10 PM on 05/03/2010

it's called sales numbers.

[hereitis]

09:03 PM on 05/03/2010

you are exactly right. i was wondering the same thing myself about who are these women that were polled. in order for me to envision myself in an outfit, i need to see it on someone who is representative of my size.