Okay, last I checked airbrushing was suppose to create a natural look, eliminating any flaws in the picture. Not chop the model down to a size 12 in juniors. My initial instinct is to blame the airbrush artist for this piece of work that is obviously not done well. It takes away from the marketing campaign and all you focus on is the controversy itself-the too thin model. And I am not saying that weight disorders do not exist and aren't real issues- because they are real! But not in this model, this picture was manipulated, and many people think that this manipulates the viewer's mind as well into thinking that this is the 'standard'.
I have known many fashion houses to use controversies such as this one to stir up commotion for publicity. Free publicity ain't no commodity in the fashion industry. And as shady as it sounds, it could possibly be a ploy into the darker side of marketing. I mean, couture & ready-to-wear isn't what sells as everyone knows, the subsidiary products is what sells (ie. perfume, bags, jewelery, 2nd line, shoes). So maybe this ad is playing up the audience to sell?
What really pisses me off is that the writer thinks that fashion objectifies women.
I don't think it's fair to dismiss the fashion industry as a fallible group of individuals that want nothing more than to weigh 90 pounds and judge everyone who weighs a lick over that. The fashion world is a very accepting place, one of art & creativity-but there are artists who take things too far in the business such as the tacky artist that did the Ralph Lauren ad up above.
Fashion isn't always about making the wearer look sexy & appealing, there's a great part of the fashion world that purposely distorts this 'so called standard'; which perfectly eliminates the whole "i hate my self-image and so every woman around me must feel exactly the same" mantra that seems to repeat itself on every single article I read about weight issues in the industry.
Designer Rei Kawakubo can back me up on that!
I think it's ridiculous that people assume women are too stupid to think for themselves & not be able to distinguish what is obviously false ideals from reality. We women do not need to constantly be badgered of what a realistic woman is. We are real women, we know what we look like. It is the woman's/girl's choice to decide how she will look, our power to choose and perceive ourselves in a certain light is our power only; once you take that away by censorship; less power to us. More hypocrisy to you.
To the writer of this article&the idiots that like to mock the fashion world...you need to be mad at the men behind the editing work; they are placing these standards- NOT THE FASHION WORLD, NOT DESIGNERS AND NOT OTHER THIN WOMEN! NOW PUT DOWN THE FORK AND WRITE SOMETHING WORTH READING THAT ISN'T COMPLETELY BIASED!!!!
The retarded article is right here:
http://jezebel.com/5571824/being-a-comfortable-other
