The lines are unnecessarily blurred between 'normal' people and models. There is a clear difference. You and I shouldn't feel the need to be super skinny like the models even though its very difficult! And models shouldn't be criticized for being skinny because that's part of their job. They are human hangers there to be viewed by the editors and buyers wearing garments to their full potential so they can make a relevant judgement.
Mark Fast's AW10 collection says it all with size 16 model Crystal Renn walking in his show. The first thing i saw was her unproportional body and her bumpy bits in the red body con. And another model's boobs were bouncing alot as she walked and definitely not in the sexy way but in the buy-a-sports-bra way. Don't get me wrong alot of plus size models I have seen are beautiful and have balanced out bodies which I think critical when being plus sized modelbut I don't agree with the girls being on the runway as they don't translate into the clothes horse as a tall skinny girl would which is essential for the people watching the show.
I also thought it was incredibly irritating that so many people criticized the stylist Erika Kurihara for walking out three days before Mark Fast's last seasons show because of the change to used plus sized models. She was right to, for another reason besides not showing off the clothes correctly as she said, 'Two of the bigger girls, although their faces were beautiful and their bodies beautiful, did not have the right walk for the catwalk. The walk is very important and I wasn't happy.' Did anybody talk about the clothes? No they talked about the scandal. Publicity stunt? Probably. I had not even heard of him before this.
The model should not detract from the clothes in anyway and that goes for forcing yourself you be so thin you end up fainting moments before the show. Yes models have collapsed and in Luisel Ramos case even died due to being being under weight but the British fashion council has recognised this, weight is being monitored and designers must provide food at every show. I worked on London Fashion Week last season and the designers did comply and the models did eat. The whole size zero debate and models being skeletons is such broken record when its shouldn't be as it's obesity that's the problem in the country. The media go look down 'skinny' because it makes the the rest of the women in Britain feel better about their bodies. Maybe we are just conditioned to see thin on the runway and if plus sized girls had a regular appearance there would all get get used to it? Would the buyers, editors and fashion journalists adapt to this to give a unbias opinion about the clothes? Maybe. The papers and gossip magazines said were happy too see 'real' women. But I don't want real women on the catwalk. I see them every day its so normal its boring. I want the weird and wonderful. Fashion is unapologetically outrageous, over the top and unbelievably beautiful. Real or normal doesn't fit in here. I want to gasp in awe not in horror.
And at the end of the day the clothes on the catwalk are just samples and are made into bigger sizes when they get into stores so is there any need to see the bigger size on the runway? No. And no offence the model in Fast's AW10 show but there a million ways to make her curves look fabulous and Mark Fast's dresses are not one of them. Good luck with sales Fast, you'll need it after that show.
Mark Fast AW10
What do you think? Let me know!
and ps. another detraction from the clothes that pisses me off is using the celebraties on the runway. I know it gets media attention and that's good for them blah blah but I couldn't tell you anything from Vivienne Westwood's Red Label SS10 due to all the celebs on the catwalk. Viv says she has nothing to do with her Red Label thank god.
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