Trend Alert: Chest Bones Are The New Clavicle
Skinny is in, just in case you missed the memo and somehow also missed being whacked over the head with the skinny mallet by every single media outlet. But it is no longer enough to just be thin. You must be skeletal. Lumpy thin, a la Kirsten Dunst, is so nineties. Anyone can starve, darlings. But not everyone can make their bones pop just so.
Consider the evidence:
Last year was all about the clavicle. Many thin women have protruding collar bones at the base of their neck. But only the really good ones can make it pop all the way to a visible knob at the top of each shoulder. In fact, this look -- dubbed The Kiera for its most famous practitioner -- is so popular that it has inspired its own brand of plastic surgery: shoulder lipo.
But before you go running to your neighborhood plastic surgeon, be warned: "This procedure is for people who are usually already in great shape and are very trim. They maybe go to the gym three or five days a week but there are a few areas that the gym can't reach, such as their shoulders, knees and ankles. It is not a procedure I perform on obese women." And now I'm picturing obese women with sinewy clavicle-popping shoulders... Somewhere Da Vinci is rolling in his grave.
This year's trend gets even more anatomical, if you will. Lady Victoria Hervey shows that chest bones are the new collar bones. If you can't count a woman's ribs all the way to her navel then she is obviously too fond of the food. Or survival. Or shirts.
What's next for a social climbing starlet with too much money and too few brains? Chest lipo? Whoops, there go your breasts! And everyone knows you need those to get ahead (must... not... make... perverted... pun). Thank heavens Dr. 90210, despite not being board-certified and a general all-around cretin, invented silicone! I mean, he did, right??
Honestly, I'm not sure where this is going next. We've already got hip bones so prominent you could lose an eye. Cheek bones so hollow you could sip the special Kool-Aid out of the them. Chins so razor sharp they could spear fish. But don't worry, the media won't leave us hanging. After all, I hear that Angelina is spitting distance from her pre-pregnancy weight of 105 lbs. Girl is 5' 7" according to IMDb, which gives her a BMI of 16.
Wait -- has anyone told Rachel Zoe and Co. that our brains our 60% FAT?!? I feel a trend coming. Brace yourselves, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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Some people also simply have very protruding clavicles--you don't have to be emaciated like the girls in these pictures above. My fiancee for instance looks like Keira on her torso, but certainly not on her bottom half (nor would I want her to). There's little point in agonizing over what Hollywood currently finds the hottest; some women will always be swayed by these images, but believe me, the majority of people like what they like no matter what is "in style".
As a sculptor I can tell you those bones are clearly there and noticeable in anyone who is not overweight. However, some of the women shown above are clearly past that point and, dare I say it, look emaciated.
Yeah, I was actually shocked, Rachel Zoe looks so old. I wouldn't have thought that la Zoe would go out looking like this..
was just in the grocery store and saw a photo of trisha yearwood on the cover of something (redbook, i think). anyway, she looked glorious, ripe and healthy. i don't think i've seen an image like that in about twenty years. truly, it looked like something from another century (and not the last one). i fear the ubiquitous digital camera and cellphone camera have something to do with the disappearance of the lovely ample gal. of course the morbidly gal isn't helping things.
People like chest bones??????? I'm seeing more women (movie stars)with that look and just don't get it, to each his own I guess.
The super skinny look may be touted as fashionably desirable, but no one is talking about the long term effect this has on womens bodies. Without "some" weight and muscle, the bones will lose density rapidly, potentially leading these women to early osteoporosis.
wow.
as a thin 40 yr old male,this is exactly what I would like to change about myself. I have TOO much clavicle.
Women WANT to look this way?
Maybe my own distaste with my lankiness is why I LOVE a classic womanly figure(full figure?)
Gotta go. must eat burger.
Try pasta. Lots of it.
wow, starvation is the new trend, huh?
we are one screwed up society.
although not a fan of 'plastic chest helmuts', this look might be a bit extreme. whatever happened to looking natural?
Might be??
I bet when Angi Jolie was in school, and turned sideways, she was marked absent...
Look at her early movies. The woman had meat on her bones and a mighty fine figure.
this is furhter evicence that western (read white) culture has gone too far. ask any brown person, from anywhere in the world, what they think of this look and you will be looked at like you are crazy. ladies ignore these insecure debutantes....they have lost their way, assuming, that is, that they ever had it!
Why make this racial? I'm white and I hate the "new look." They look like concentration camp survivors.
Listen, some women, more in entertainment, have eating disorders. Others are naturally skinny. I love the naturally skinny look. The bony look? no one likes it and I will not get on the band wagon and make fun of these women. It is no fun to starve. Ironically, even if you do it on purpose, you suffer.
Obesity is a much bigger issue in this country. It's easy to make fun of skinny, though, because most of us are far from it.
Obesity is acknowledged as a problem. Emaciation, on the other hand, is presented as something to aspire to.
See Adrienne Williams's Profile
I'm with you Charlotte -- even when I was extremely thin growing up because I was so tall, I didn't like it (Those days are over). I think a healthy medium weight is the best way to go.... I think women in Hollywood have more issues than food regarding what they want to eat. It's all about self-esteem really.
That photo of Rachel Zoe was taken before her forehead miraculously smoothed out.
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