Cynthia Cheng Mintz
The woman who graced the No-Anorexia ad in 2007 has died from complications of the very disease. Isabelle Caro, 28, appeared in the above ad which coinicided with Milan Fashion Week that year. Once again, critics are blaming the fashion industry for promoting the disease and are ranting about how size zero should be banned. While I agree that the fashion industry should stop using too-skinny models on the runway, the fashion industry is still trying hard to stay away from using them. For the past decade or so, most magazines have used celebrities on their covers rather than actual models, for example.
Post author, Cynthia Cheng Mintz
While celebrities tend to wear zeros and twos, they’re often much shorter, meaning that they’re more likely to look healthier at a smaller size (I’m a zero myself. But at barely 5’2″ and very small framed, I look perfectly normal). Still, there are many who think “real models” look better in clothes. I disagree. I think the skinniest of the models look awful – and it’s not because they have weird make-up they put on models on the runway. It’s just that they’re too skinny (and often too young) to represent the clothes they’re wearing. Models are tall. If you’re that tall (i.e. close to six feet), you can still “look like a hanger” by wearing a sample size that is size 6 or 8. If designers really want to make size 0 or size 2 samples, they should stick to women who’re between 5’5″ and 5’7″ or 5’8″ – the tallest one can look reasonably healthy in the smallest of sizes (it’s the designers and/or their publicists who call the shots, no? Agencies only provide the models designers are looking for and the media use them). I know that some “fashionistas” would disagree with me, but if cekebrities can look good in pictures and in celebrity-based runway shows, then so can models. We just have to retrain our eyes.
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