Swede reveals new site in wake of online mannequin shenanigans
Swede reveals new site in wake of online mannequin shenanigans
After her picture of a Swedish mannequin left the internet buzzing, Malmö resident Rebecka Silvekroon has seized the moment to keep the world talking about body image, making her our pick for Swede of the Week.
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But that all changed last week when a picture Silvekroon had snapped in an Åhlens department store in Malmö and published on her blog back in 2010 suddenly landed on the Facebook page of Women's Rights News.
"Store mannequins in Sweden. They look like real women. The US should invest in some of these," the caption under the image read.
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Silvekroon theorized that part of the reason the picture got so many people talking was that the issue perhaps hasn't been discussed as much in the US and UK as it has previously in Sweden.
"I remember last autumn when a blogger was fired for calling a model in an ad for SATS gym chain 'fat'," she says, referring to a controversy caused by celebrity blogger Katrin Zytomierska.
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Aptly titled Swedish Mannequins, the site went live on Wednesday and features sections detailing the story behind the viral fame of Silvekroon's picture as well as an image gallery with other mannequins of various shapes and sizes.
The new site also encourages others to send in pictures of similar mannequins and share their thoughts about the body image with the aim of "getting the attention of retailers and companies and make them use normal sized mannequins in the future".
http://www.thelocal.se/46866/20130321/#.UViO7DegSSo
Link to her new site:
http://www.swedishmannequins.com/
And her ending quote:
"I don't want to be known for taking a picture, but for helping create a discussion about how men and women are portrayed in the media."