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Buzz up! Thin Is Not In at Paris Fashion Week
posted by Lindsay Robertson - Fri Mar 12 2010, 3:03 PM PST
celebs: Marc Jacobs | Elle Macpherson | Adriana Lima | Karl Lagerfeld
topics: Models
Elle MacPherson walked the runway at the 2010 Louis Vuitton Ready-to-Wear show during Paris Fashion Week at the ripe old age of 46!
Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage.com After many years of international criticism over the apparent unhealthiness of the skinny models chosen to walk the runways at the fashion world's most elite shows in New York, Milan, and Paris, designers seem to finally be coming around to the idea of diversity in who models their clothes. While the ethnic diversity barrier has been eroding for some time now, it seems a diversity of body types has had an even tougher time making it into the modeling world.
This week, several models known for their Victoria's Secret modeling -- most of whom have curvier figures than traditional catwalk models -- were welcome on the Paris Fashion Week runway for the first time. The ever-so-slightly fuller-figured women were shown modeling the latest clothes for fall.
Adriana Lima walked the runway for the first time since giving birth to her daughter in November. The model shared the catwalk with fellow Victoria's Secret regular Alessandra Ambrosio. While the fact that two curvy beauties would appear in a fashion show is remarkable in and of itself, Lima and Ambrosio are also 28 years old -- an age that spells retirement for most high-fashion models.
And if the presence of two late-20s models didn't make enough of a statement about the changing standards of Europe's fashion weeks, Elle Macpherson also walked the runways this week -- at the ripe age of 46.
Adriana Lima also strutted her stuff for Louis Vuitton during Paris Fashion Week just four months after having given birth.
Dominique Charriau/WireImage.com Last year's model: Thin was still in at the Louis Vuitton Ready-to-Wear show in Paris 2009.
Eric Ryan/Getty Images
Speaking to reporters backstage at his Louis Vuitton show in Paris on Wednesday, designer Marc Jacobs made it clear that the new look of fashion week wasn't a fluke: "Designers are always talking about how they design for women, and then you look at our runways and there [are] no girls over 20. This time, I set out to cast a variety of sexy women -- younger, older, thin, voluptuous, from every ethnic background."
The appearance of curvy models comes after some fashion shows instituted rules requiring models to eat before they step onto the runway. The nutritional requirements began to take effect after a super-thin model died in 2006, shortly after stepping off a South American fashion-show stage.
Last month, fashion watchers also got a look at the fleshier trend when another model known for her curvy body, Miranda Kerr, 26, modeled for Prada at Milan's fashion week.
The newly curvy look comes just six months after designer Karl Lagerfeld, in response to criticism over skinny models at European fashion weeks, told reporters: "Nobody wants to see round women."
source: http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/a-line/thin-is-not-in-at-paris-fashion-week/402?nc
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Karl Lagerfeld Defends Skinny Models - 'No One Wants to See Round Women'
by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts), Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 2:55PM
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Karl Lagerfeld looking a little wide himself -- in the tie and collar area. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain, Getty images
Karl Lagerfeld, who famously dropped 92 lbs in 13 months in order to squeeze into skinny Dior Homme duds -- and wrote the book, "The Karl Lagerfeld Diet," about it -- is defending the waifs who march down his runways, and calling out the "fat mummies" who complain about them, according to The Guardian.
Lagerfeld was interviewed by the German magazine Focus, during which the designer responded to the announcement of best-selling German magazine, Brigitte's commitment to using "ordinary, realistic" women instead of professional models in future fashion spreads, the U.K. newspaper reports.
Lagerfeld, speaking in German, his native tongue, told Focus that Brigitte's plan was "absurd," and that the women complaining about too-skinny models were just fat and jealous.
"These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly," the Chanel designer tells Focus, going on to say that the fashion industry supports "dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women."
According to The Guardian, he also tries to dispel the myth that skinny models have eating disorders.
"It's just as much a cliché as saying that all models take drugs and get drunk at sex orgies," he says. "Ninety percent of them are quite normal, properly proportioned girls with less fat and more muscles, who also eat pizzas and burgers."
Brigitte's editor, Andreas Lebert, sees things differently. On October 5th, he told The Guardian that after years of "fattening up" too-thin models through Photoshop, starting on January 2nd, the magazine will start working with real women only.
"Today's models weigh around 23% less than normal women," Lebert told the paper. "The whole model industry is anorexic. We will show women who have their own identity, the 18-year-old A-level student, the company chairwoman, the musician, the footballer."
Of course, all of this comes on the heels of Ralph Lauren's emaciated ad and, at the opposite extreme, Glamour'scommitment to showing plus-size models and women of more diverse sizes.
So, how do you weigh in on the model controversy? Is Lagerfeld right to defend his runway rails or are Brigitte and Glamour taking steps in the right direction?
source: http://www.stylelist.com/2009/10/12/karl-lagerfeld-defends-skinny-models-no-one-wants-to-see-roun/
posted by Lindsay Robertson - Fri Mar 12 2010, 3:03 PM PST
celebs: Marc Jacobs | Elle Macpherson | Adriana Lima | Karl Lagerfeld
topics: Models
Elle MacPherson walked the runway at the 2010 Louis Vuitton Ready-to-Wear show during Paris Fashion Week at the ripe old age of 46!
Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage.com After many years of international criticism over the apparent unhealthiness of the skinny models chosen to walk the runways at the fashion world's most elite shows in New York, Milan, and Paris, designers seem to finally be coming around to the idea of diversity in who models their clothes. While the ethnic diversity barrier has been eroding for some time now, it seems a diversity of body types has had an even tougher time making it into the modeling world.
This week, several models known for their Victoria's Secret modeling -- most of whom have curvier figures than traditional catwalk models -- were welcome on the Paris Fashion Week runway for the first time. The ever-so-slightly fuller-figured women were shown modeling the latest clothes for fall.
Adriana Lima walked the runway for the first time since giving birth to her daughter in November. The model shared the catwalk with fellow Victoria's Secret regular Alessandra Ambrosio. While the fact that two curvy beauties would appear in a fashion show is remarkable in and of itself, Lima and Ambrosio are also 28 years old -- an age that spells retirement for most high-fashion models.
And if the presence of two late-20s models didn't make enough of a statement about the changing standards of Europe's fashion weeks, Elle Macpherson also walked the runways this week -- at the ripe age of 46.
Adriana Lima also strutted her stuff for Louis Vuitton during Paris Fashion Week just four months after having given birth.
Dominique Charriau/WireImage.com Last year's model: Thin was still in at the Louis Vuitton Ready-to-Wear show in Paris 2009.
Eric Ryan/Getty Images
Speaking to reporters backstage at his Louis Vuitton show in Paris on Wednesday, designer Marc Jacobs made it clear that the new look of fashion week wasn't a fluke: "Designers are always talking about how they design for women, and then you look at our runways and there [are] no girls over 20. This time, I set out to cast a variety of sexy women -- younger, older, thin, voluptuous, from every ethnic background."
The appearance of curvy models comes after some fashion shows instituted rules requiring models to eat before they step onto the runway. The nutritional requirements began to take effect after a super-thin model died in 2006, shortly after stepping off a South American fashion-show stage.
Last month, fashion watchers also got a look at the fleshier trend when another model known for her curvy body, Miranda Kerr, 26, modeled for Prada at Milan's fashion week.
The newly curvy look comes just six months after designer Karl Lagerfeld, in response to criticism over skinny models at European fashion weeks, told reporters: "Nobody wants to see round women."
source: http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/a-line/thin-is-not-in-at-paris-fashion-week/402?nc
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Karl Lagerfeld Defends Skinny Models - 'No One Wants to See Round Women'
by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts), Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 2:55PM
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Karl Lagerfeld looking a little wide himself -- in the tie and collar area. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain, Getty images
Karl Lagerfeld, who famously dropped 92 lbs in 13 months in order to squeeze into skinny Dior Homme duds -- and wrote the book, "The Karl Lagerfeld Diet," about it -- is defending the waifs who march down his runways, and calling out the "fat mummies" who complain about them, according to The Guardian.
Lagerfeld was interviewed by the German magazine Focus, during which the designer responded to the announcement of best-selling German magazine, Brigitte's commitment to using "ordinary, realistic" women instead of professional models in future fashion spreads, the U.K. newspaper reports.
Lagerfeld, speaking in German, his native tongue, told Focus that Brigitte's plan was "absurd," and that the women complaining about too-skinny models were just fat and jealous.
"These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly," the Chanel designer tells Focus, going on to say that the fashion industry supports "dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women."
According to The Guardian, he also tries to dispel the myth that skinny models have eating disorders.
"It's just as much a cliché as saying that all models take drugs and get drunk at sex orgies," he says. "Ninety percent of them are quite normal, properly proportioned girls with less fat and more muscles, who also eat pizzas and burgers."
Brigitte's editor, Andreas Lebert, sees things differently. On October 5th, he told The Guardian that after years of "fattening up" too-thin models through Photoshop, starting on January 2nd, the magazine will start working with real women only.
"Today's models weigh around 23% less than normal women," Lebert told the paper. "The whole model industry is anorexic. We will show women who have their own identity, the 18-year-old A-level student, the company chairwoman, the musician, the footballer."
Of course, all of this comes on the heels of Ralph Lauren's emaciated ad and, at the opposite extreme, Glamour'scommitment to showing plus-size models and women of more diverse sizes.
So, how do you weigh in on the model controversy? Is Lagerfeld right to defend his runway rails or are Brigitte and Glamour taking steps in the right direction?
source: http://www.stylelist.com/2009/10/12/karl-lagerfeld-defends-skinny-models-no-one-wants-to-see-roun/