> At the CFDA-hosted "Beauty of Health" discussion, Michael Kors, Coco Rocha, and casting agent James Scully all stepped up to the plate to address the waning weights of models.
Kors threw in a designer's perspective, suggesting that his peers should "stay away from child-size clothes unless [they're] designing for children," and pointing out that when designers offer such small sample sizes and celebrities starve themselves to fit into them, their super-skinny aesthetic has a far-reaching impact on the general female population. He also advised agents to only send the most suitable girls to castings: “Sending a girl when there's little chance of her being booked throws a 16-year-old into a tizzy. The odds of a girl being booked for my show and Rick Owens’s are slim.”
"Last season I took diuretic pills. Once I took so many on an empty stomach that I was doubled over for hours. That's the last time I ever did something so terrible to my body." She asked designers to provide healthier food at their shows — "No one wants to be caught with that photo 'Model Eats Cake'" — and to make their fit models, and therefore their sample sizes, bigger — models are humiliated when zippers won't zip up at castings."
“She wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom to take a shower and runs by the full-length mirror because she can't bare to look at herself naked. She only weighs 104 pounds, but all she can think is, I need to be thinner. She hurries to her first show, where she promises herself she'll eat a few grapes. But when she gets there, there's nothing but pastries. First looks are called, she puts on her dress and it takes three people to zip her up. The dresser makes a joke, 'We almost had to call the agency and tell them you didn't fit.' All the girl can think is, I better not eat until tomorrow.”
— Coco Rocha, on the typical day of a model, at the CFDA Health Discussion Tuesday
I am 5'11 and naturally 130- 135. If they would accept someone at those statistics I wouldn't be going through such turmoil, yet I'm not completely blaming the industry 100%, because I do in fact understand that I could've chosen to go seek employment elsewhere.
Point being, it's a big fucking problem, I don't know how many times I've heard my other model roomates vomiting in the toilet throughout the years. It's sad. It's real, It's a problem. - Anonymous
"you need to lose more weight. The look this year is anorexic. We don't want you to be anorexic, we just want you to look it." Even crazier, an agent once advised her to throw up after meals.
....going a year without menstruating, and her hair weakening and falling out due to malnutrition. “That's kind of when I realized that this isn't worth it anymore, and it had completely taken over,” Ali Michael says.
not hot. the girls should be sexy, and not just in the face.. it does look pretty though when they walk... fuck it. just because the clothes are more complex and ornate today doesn't mean the girls have to fade away. infact, they should be able to exude more personality to compete with the added vibrance of the clothes and our society. there should also be a call for older models ( ahem, 19, 20..... yea, i know), women that carry at least a glimmer of adulthood experience in the eye is, sexy (and marketable). the argument is that the market is calling for akward (albeit beautiful) "anorexic" eastern euros. the fact is that the "trendsetters of the world" could easily change this standard with the very same brash passion of change and vision that forged this industry over the past twenty-thirty years. we all try and pretend the models are an afterthought to the collections, when really this is because they are full front and center in the marketing. models are going to resume selling clothes as the buzz of the internet reaches an apex and we start to see a redux of marketing design of yesteryear (ala, more fundamental creativity and less button pushing). so let's make sure to support a more dynamic ideal for our models. let them be the people we are and all want to be, comfortable and beautiful. because being inside the industry, it's easy to forget that those outside are blithely following the setting of these trends. we must face this with a real answer, just as david stern and the NBA and Goodell at the NFL must face their not so-invisble scandals hahahaa. that answer is real women (it's more fun when they're stars, not scared girls, no?), making really beautiful clothes look fun to wear and not just to nimbly present them on a catwalk before walking back around that wall and having a team try to tear through the zipper before she collaspes from loss of blood tot he brain. don't get me wrong, skinny is o.k., but bulimia breath is not. the model eating cake picture should be funny, not career ending.. please.
