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Given my non-existent interest in the world of fashion, I think that it must have been the Orwellian double speak nature of a story about the “perfect” female model that turned out to be a man. In the movie “the Devil Wears Prada” I was definitely in Anne Hathaway’s corner cheering for the non-fashionista. The rage at London’s Fashion Week is the latest hot new model of women’s clothing, 19 year old Andrej Pejic, and how this model’s body is just “perfect” for the new designer women’s clothes. Just one tiny problem (please excuse the pun), Andrej Pejic is an Australian dude.
It must say a lot about our current society if the best model for women’s clothes is a boy not yet able to drink. As reported by the BBC:
“Andrej is obviously beautiful and he has the most amazing figure. When you consider that a lot of designers are designing for this impossible ideal for someone who is 5ft 11in, no hips and no chest,” says the Daily Telegraph’s fashion director Hilary Alexander.
We sometimes wonder why our kids find things confusing in today’s world in which we evidently want to “feminize” men and make women more boyish. While this may be the talk of the town in the fashion houses in London, Paris, New York and Milan I find it symptomatic of a world culture trying to discover “modern” values and beliefs when those beliefs and values have been there all along. Let me give you a little hint, they DO NOT involve worshipping a 19 year old boy posing as the “perfect body” to model women’s clothes.
Prominent talking heads on the right have made a cottage industry of casting men on the left as wimps, sissies, faggots. If that’s your idea of promoting masculinity, I’ll pass.
Now I regret that I have voted YES on Prop. 8.
What shall we do about the closeted Republican homosexuals posing as social conservative Bible beaters?
Not sure what ANY of these comments have to do with the sad state of affairs when the point of the story is that society, in this case in the guise of fashion designers, design clothes for women that cannot be worn by women, only tall slender boys. Sad to me that many want to be something they are not and then demand everyone else think similarly.
Personally I vote for voluptuous.
Me too – all woman
I have notice your traction to MQ photo.
“…then demand everyone else think similarly.”
King of overstatement.
Not really – I am quoting the words from the BBC report on Fashion Week which stated that this year’s lines are designed to be worn by women 5’11 with no hips and flat chests.
a) New fashions by designers are almost ALWAYS presented on rail thin female models of this height. Women understand that is not the actual size they would be “demanded” to wear. It’s a complete non-issue.
b) Most runway fashions are not the type of clothing you’re going to buy in Target, WalMart, even Macy’s. That’s all “ready to wear” clothing. This stuff you’re critiquing isn’t even given a second thought by the vast majority of women.
c) are you normally in the habit of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater?
As long as designers will be LadyBoys they will dress everyone in their image.
If you want normal world you must allow it to be run by normal people.
Second submission!
CENSURE SHIP AGAIN HUH?
You are really sick NELSON!
One day you will end up like Pedroza swimming in agony of your own evil.
And what, exactly, makes a person “normal”?
You, know, anon. Normal. Like Fiala.