Victoria Beckham Defends Skinny Models
Victoria Beckham appeared on The View yesterday and gave her input on the whole fat/skinny model debate that has been going through the fashion world for the past couple of years.
While the model weight debate has been circulating for the last few years, it is only the past 8 months that it is really starting to make headlines worldwide. As a fashion designer and super skinny person herself, it was only natural and a matter of time before Victoria “weighed” in on the debate.
Posh Spice showed off her new collection just a few days during New York Fashion Week, in which she used a lot of thin models – one looked fatigue/famishing, to great reviews.
When the topic was brought up she said, “most of these girls are naturally thin, and I don’t think we should be discriminating against someone because they are too thin or too curvy or too large or whatever it is.”
Victoria said that she has signed on to a campaign by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which is calling for industry people to be more responsible.
On this she said, “The CFDA have reached out to designers, stylists and casting directors not to work with underage models, girls that are too thin and to be more ethnically aware. And I think designers are listening. I had a casting last week and had some terribly thin girls come in and it wouldn’t have worked. The campaign the CFDA has launched is called Health Is Beauty, and they are definitely encouraging designers to work with healthier-sized models.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m all for using all sizes (although to be fair clothes would look better on a thinner, thin not anorexic, girl rather than someone that is a size 16) on the runway but at the same time I realize that designers basically want a walking hanger down the runway. The whole models weight debate is really starting to get tired, if there is going to be some rules then I wish somebody would just do it now and if not then I wish the debate would stop.
That said, I don’t think anybody should be looking at Victoria Beckham for what is acceptable when it comes to weight.
source: Fashion designers should be free to use size zero models, says Victoria Beckham [Daily Mail]
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