Vogue magazine?

Question

I have heard Tyra Banks say that Vogue magazine's has a policy of embracing models that are anorexic. Is that true and do they really go far when if comes to belittling women?

Answer 1

Fashion models have always been very tall very thin girls. This is because the clothes hang better on them and people are looking at the dress, not the body of the model. For example, if you have great b***s, people look at your b***s, not your Dior shoes.

However, somewhere along the way, someone decided that models were desirable as women too - some are very pretty, and this is probably why, but it has become a very highly envied career amongst young girls, who then imagine they have to be that tall and thin to be considered beautiful.

It's sort of a vicious circle I think.

We need to build the confidence of young girls without making any one body type the key to beauty.

Answer 2

I saw an interview with Naima Mora once (she is a runway model), where she said that at shows she was constantly being told to lose weight, even though she is literally like, skin and bones. So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. After a certain point, I guess you would have to develop an eating disorder to get any skinnier than you already are.

Answer 3

What needs to happen to fix this problem I think is this. The owners of the clothing that grace the runway should set a certain clothing size as of to what clothes will be sent to the runway. If they had a policy in their company that didn't allow clothes below a size 5 to be modeled then this would put a stop to a lot of the pressure to be thin. The ones that have the real control of the runway are the owners of the clothing. If they set the standards on what size they will allow to be modeled, this would make a big change.

Answer 4

Not quite as far as magazines like Cosmo, but far enough. Just flip through an issue when you next hit the bookstore and tell us what the models look like.