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tazzygirl -> RE: Thats it. I'm done with 21 year olds. (2/28/2011 11:35:25 PM)
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Posted Saturday, Sep 16, 2006
Let the beautiful-but-emaciated beware: there will be no ultra-skinny models sauntering down the runway at this year's Pasarela Cibeles, Spain's most important fashion event. For the first time, the Pasarela, which begins [an error occurred while processing this directive] Monday, will bar from the catwalk models with a body mass index (a weight-to-height ratio) lower than 18.
Still, the restrictions will prevent an estimated 30% of the 50 models who participated in last year's Cibeles from walking in this year's show.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1535663,00.html#ixzz1FKVmpzXa
Ana Carolina Reston Macan was a brizilian model who, at the time of her death, weighed 88 lbs and was 5-8. Her BMI was 13.4. Her death, among many others, caused Spain to come down heavy on the weight issue on runways. Luisel Ramos was another who died of anorexia, with a BMI of 14.5. Below 16 is considered starvation.
I am in no way saying all the models are sick. But almost 1/3 were banned from runway shows for being underweight. Was a time when a full figure meant good health and romance. Twiggy changed all that. Designers are starting, slowly, to bring back larger sized models (god that is such a terrible phrase)
They’re not your average size 2 models and they’re not plus size models either – they’re real size models or normal size models, as in sizes 8-12.
And they’ve finally been incorporated in a fashion show, more precisely, in Mark Fast’s Spring 2010 Fashion Show.
Why did the designer choose them? Here’s the explanation from the creative director of the brand:
“The decision to use fuller girls is something we have been talking about. There’s an idea that only thin and slender women are able to wear Mark’s dresses and he wanted to combat that. We wanted women to know they didn’t have to be a size zero to wear a Mark Fast dress – curvier women can look even better in them.”
On a more important note, what do you guys think of the real-size models initiative? I mean, you’ve got the size 0-4 skinny models dominating the runways, we’ve got the occasional size 12 and up plus-size models as well… I always wonder why we don’t get more of the size 6-12 models, especially since so many women fall in this category? Even more, the majority of the typical skinny models are underweight (not saying that they’re not healthy, because some are naturally skinny) and the plus-size ones are mostly overweight (again – not saying that they’re not healthy, we can’t assume that)…
But it just makes sense that we need more models with healthy BMIs – and sizes 6-12 are a great source for that.
http://www.skinnyvscurvy.com/hot-models/real-size-models-walked-runway-fashion-show.html
The link shows pictures of the 0-4 group and the 6-12 group.
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