Vogue magazine's new policy bans skinny models

[Baitball Blogger]

Bony, emaciated and sad-looking models will be out of work thanks to a new policy by the stylemakers.

Nineteen editors of Vogue magazines throughout the world, including Kirstie Clements in Australia, made a pact yesterday to use healthy models.

They promised to stop publishing photos of "listless, grey-looking" super-thin girls and any model under 16.

"We have the ability to start an industry dialogue, in conjunction with designers, to start making a change," Clements said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/help-at-hand-for-hiv-sufferers/story-fn7x8me2-1226347314874

[Odin2005]

1. BRAVO!!!

[LeftyMom]

2. So they just can't seem listless?

I guess that means it's time for the regular shift from heroin chic to coke?

[Myrina]

3. "Healthy" in fashion terms = size 4 instead of size 0.

No gain for the majority of us women-folk who run 12/14.

[DCKit]

6. Better for the kids, at least.

It is a gain. If you need things to move faster, then get involved.

The painted corpses of teenagers as fashion icons has been the standard for two decades, it's a problem that's not going to be resolved in one fell swoop.

Your concern is noted.

[LadyHawkAZ]

4. So instead of size 0 models

they will be moving to size 2, and just photoshopping them down to size 0?

I'll believe this when I see it.

[yourout]

5. A little bit vague about it aren't they. How about some specifics like no one more than 5% below....

their ideal weight on the BMI chart?

[JDPriestly]

7. How about some curvaceous, in other words, "mature-looking" middle-aged and older women,

maybe some that approach a high weight for their height? And how about designing clothes that flatter such women?

The average American woman weighs a healthy weight or slightly above.

[abelenkpe]

8. ..

"And how about designing clothes that flatter such women? "

I'm not sure who clothes today are designed for. Lately I see jumpsuits are the rage. Really? Who wants to completely disrobe every time they have to visit the loo? And these one shouldered and tube top tops. I'm sure those would go over well on the average woman in the workplace. Lots of sheer tops out now too. I swear clothes today are designed for women who don't work, use the bathroom or ever even consider bending over.

[JDPriestly]

12. Absolutely.

And those bright colored, large design prints? Hotel drapes anyone?

[guitar man]

10. Now you're talkin'

With some nice big butts....and I cannot lie

[rppper]

13. Agreed !!! I'm a husky guy....

...I like a healthy woman! Thick even!

Soft and curvy=feminine....

It's way past time that magazines started doing this....they have a lot of blood on their hands(via eating disorders and such)to account for IMHO .

[guitar man]

14. I'm a thin guy

And I've been married to a big bouncy woman for 20 years. Wouldn't have it any other way

[JI7]

9. don't most Magazines now have Actors/Singers on their cover instead of models ?

[pansypoo53219]

11. what are they gonna do about the photoshopped ads?

i was appalled last time i looked at it. the unreality of the human 'figure'.

[Number23]

15. Praise the Lord!

Next up, a Vogue issue that features more than 3 token models of color out of 247 in the entire magazine.

[JNelson6563]

16. How about some realism?

I'd like to see models of all sizes and colors on the magazines. We women come in all shapes and sizes (yes, there are even some who are naturally thin), why can't our representation be that way too? We also cover the entire flesh-tone spectrum. Not sure why magazines can't reflect these things.

Julie

[Mopar151]

17. There are technical problems...

Clothes are drawn, and sold, in 2 dimensions. If you want clothes that look good on a hangar, or on a flat piece of paper, you need to model them on someone built like a coat hangar, and flat front and back.

Couture (high-end, custom made) buyers are rich, generally - and these days, that means skinny. And many within the business are lifelong dieters, who see normal subcutaneous fat, or visible muscle, as a lack of self-discipline.

If you design clothing for Venus Williams, Michelle Obama, or Laila Ali, you run the risk of the model "overpowering the clothes" - the prospective buyer may remember the model rather than the ensemble.

And it is much more difficult to design clothing to fit the many configurations of "curvy" women (to me, it's viva le' difference), than to wrap a yardstick.