STOP THE CLICHES
September 11th 2011 05:44
STOP THE CLICHES
No this isn't a blog about Fashion Week and other Australian August September Fashion Events!
It's a blog about the way we use cliches reporting on fashion and especially reporting and commenting on the size zero versus "plus" size issues.
Is anyone else tired of seeing this?
"It's about the clothes. They look better on slender models!"
No its NOT about the clothes. The clothes are there to make people look beautiful not the other way around. Models are not mobile clothes racks!
"Beautiful slender models are unique inspiring disciplined people!"
Inspiring what? Sorry but seeing the cliched mutant blonde elf child with ribs wearing clothes supposedly designed to be bought by adults is not inspiring. If anything it kills the urge to shop in many of us!
On the other side.
"The average woman is size 12 - 14"
No that's not the point either.
Many of us are tired of seeing the "small sample size" excuse and the other cliche "anyway we can adjust the bespoke version clients buy"!
The point should be
"CAN WE HAVE MORE DIVERSITY ON THE CATWALK?"
I want to see models who range in appearance height and body shape from say petite OZ Viet girls thru to size 12 or 14 ADULTS along with tall slender blondes and brunettes and when oh when are we going to see more models of Polynesian and Koori descent? I've seen plenty of girls on the streets who are tall enuff but are probably too "Full figured" for current standards.
If you only want to sell clothes to rich teenagers with large allowances who can afford "bespoke" versions fine or to adults who want to look like teenagers fine go on using size zero models.
Want to sell clothes? Take a long hard look at how diverse the Australian and overseas market is! And don't claim anyone who critiques fashion must be "fat and ugly" cos they're not tall and willowy?
The people who can only afford readywear and the buyers who have to wait for season end sales may not follow the latest trends but we're often the "investment" buyers who pick items that will stay in style as long as possible. And if we find something worth investing in we will follow designers who have diversity as a value!
Stop getting caught in the cliches and think about DIVERSITY!
No this isn't a blog about Fashion Week and other Australian August September Fashion Events!
It's a blog about the way we use cliches reporting on fashion and especially reporting and commenting on the size zero versus "plus" size issues.
Is anyone else tired of seeing this?
"It's about the clothes. They look better on slender models!"
No its NOT about the clothes. The clothes are there to make people look beautiful not the other way around. Models are not mobile clothes racks!
"Beautiful slender models are unique inspiring disciplined people!"
Inspiring what? Sorry but seeing the cliched mutant blonde elf child with ribs wearing clothes supposedly designed to be bought by adults is not inspiring. If anything it kills the urge to shop in many of us!
On the other side.
"The average woman is size 12 - 14"
No that's not the point either.
Many of us are tired of seeing the "small sample size" excuse and the other cliche "anyway we can adjust the bespoke version clients buy"!
The point should be
"CAN WE HAVE MORE DIVERSITY ON THE CATWALK?"
I want to see models who range in appearance height and body shape from say petite OZ Viet girls thru to size 12 or 14 ADULTS along with tall slender blondes and brunettes and when oh when are we going to see more models of Polynesian and Koori descent? I've seen plenty of girls on the streets who are tall enuff but are probably too "Full figured" for current standards.
If you only want to sell clothes to rich teenagers with large allowances who can afford "bespoke" versions fine or to adults who want to look like teenagers fine go on using size zero models.
The people who can only afford readywear and the buyers who have to wait for season end sales may not follow the latest trends but we're often the "investment" buyers who pick items that will stay in style as long as possible. And if we find something worth investing in we will follow designers who have diversity as a value!
Stop getting caught in the cliches and think about DIVERSITY!
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Comment by Ms. M.
Incorrect, as a designer that is EXACTLY what they are. It is NOT about the model, it is NOT about them looking beautiful, it is about my designs. They are not to be a beautiful distraction taking attention away from the designs.
"Sorry but seeing the cliched mutant blonde elf child with ribs wearing clothes"
That is insulting. How dare you call this skinny person a "cliched mutant elf child"? How dare you? THEY have been chosen to model. If you have to insult someone, don't insult them. Insult the people who have chosen them for what they look like, don't insult their appearance. That is disgusting.
Comment by Julie Vaux
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Your ID is not clickable so I can't go to your site and see the image you are referring to.
this means I cant check if you actually are a designer or just a disgruntled pro-ana type?
Models can be a distraction from the clothes?
Take a good look at Peter Alexander's ads. His models look like they are actually enjoying the shoot and that certainly does not distract from his designs!
As for insulting the model or the people who pick them I don't want to insult them I want them to THINK about using a WIDER range of models.
If you are a designer please stop choosing models who match a stereotype!
And please stop using teenagers who should be in high school or other education unless the shoot is during school holidays or you know the model genuinely needs the money.
I stand by what I typed earlier.
Can we please have more diversity and less cliches on the catwalk and in catalogues and magazines?
Comment by Anonymous
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Well that explains a lot?
Comment by Ms. M.
If you are a designer please stop choosing models who match a stereotype!
And please stop using teenagers who should be in high school or other education unless the shoot is during school holidays or you know the model genuinely needs the money.
I stand by what I typed earlier. "
You stand by it? Well, that'll explain why you aren't in the industry and never will be.
The models choose to be models. Did you know that? These people WANT to be there. We don't go around and steal them from school and force them to be models.
"Models ARE mobile clothes racks?
Well that explains a lot?"
Thank you for your patronising comments, but you are clearly someone who hasn't worked in the industry, and I stand by what I typed earlier, you never will when you take this kind of attitude to someone who disagrees with the disgusting labels you threw at models.
Why on earth would these "cliched mutant blonde elf child with ribs" ever want to work with you?
Did you know that, when you enter competitions, the judges will often google for your name? To see what kind of person you are. Jobs do it to, for when you apply for work with them. Doesn't take more than a few seconds to find a blog like this where "designers" like you call those who disagree with you "a disgruntled pro-ana type".
And that, I'm afraid, might be why you aren't getting anywhere?
Comment by Julie Vaux
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Ethics arent a desirable quality in a designer?
That is so wrong. Ethics are ALWAYS important!
Well like or not some day if I ever get the money there will be a parade featuring a wide diversity of models none of whom will be size zero and I VOW to never use girls who should be school or under 18 UNLESS its school holidays or they can prove they are being tutored to make up for missing classes!
Comment by Ms. M.
Where are the ethics in INSULTING other models or designers they way you have done throughout this blog of yours?
Your attitude will get you nowhere.
End of discussion.