It's been a double hit of diet-inducing beauties in our faces this week!
First, New York Fashion Week rolled out its runways and its models who look like they barely eat morsels. Then Sports Illustrated and its bevy of perfect skinnies in swimsuits hit the newsstands and the airwaves, with not a stomach roll or dimpled thigh in sight. All week we've had to look at tight, taut tummys, stick-thin legs, arms barely bigger than insect tentacles and perky perfect cleavage. It's enough to make any normal-weight woman feel fat!
Why can't Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue have some models who have Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, or Beyonce curves? Why can't designers showcase their catwalk clothes on models who have a J.Lo pear shape or fuller figure like Christina Hendricks?
We, the women who will ultimately buy those clothes, think these women are gorgeous. We aspire to look like them, not like the androgynous sticks on the Fashion Week runways!
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Ever see a size 6 mannequin?
Have you ever seen a size 6 mannequin?
I actually have a bigger problem with the height requirements in modeling. I would rather see clothes modeled on a variety of heights and healthy sizes. My weight may fluctuate, having once been plus-size and now I am fit & healthy, but there is little I can do about my short stature (yes I am wearing heals right now) and I have never understood why all models must be very tall. Short is chic too!
Men have no problem sexulizing women of any body type. Id say women are the driving factor of the inequality of base sexulization you seem to have issue with.
Just about the ONLY mainline fashion that could even be suspected of targeting the tastes of men is the bikini model. If "fashion" gave a hoot about the tastes of men, the only clothes out there for women would be bikinis. Maybe adding the little knee high furry boots and santa hat for cold climates.
I've had innumerable conversations with women about why the architect their appearance they way they do. Clothes, makeup, breast augmentation, tummy tucks, accessories, all of it is directed like a laser at the opinions and tastes of the women with who they associate. Once or twice a year, say Valentines and a birthday, a woman might make a lingerie choice where her man is the primary consideration. But, that's it.
So women, if you are tired of the incredible social pressure to look more like "she's nothing but T&A" and less like Rosie O'Donell, then stop henpecking each other.
Really, please, for the sake of the children, take the manly route: either stop thinking about it, or back away from the cream cheesery bagel and go to gym. One of the two.....really, we don't care which.
Because usually J-Lo and Christina Hendricks wear god-awful clothes.