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Designer Julian MaDonald blasts plus size models
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1287045/Designer-Julien-MacDonald-attacks-plus-size-models-branding-joke.htm
I'm sure I won't be the only person to find his comments utterly disgraceful? When will the fashion world accept that real women do not look like these anorexic looking models you see on the catwalks? Catwalk models are freaks of nature, most women have boobs, hips, bums and thighs regardless of their clothing size.
You can't tell me that the majority of these girls are healthy? Most of them look seriously ill with bones jutting out all over the place and pasty, pale complexions. Probably severely anemic from a lack of nutrients on top of everything else. I find them just as stomach churning to look at as obese people with flab hanging out everywhere. The fashion industry is promoting an unhealthy image by insisting on using these skeletons.
What an idiot this man is!
I'm sure I won't be the only person to find his comments utterly disgraceful? When will the fashion world accept that real women do not look like these anorexic looking models you see on the catwalks? Catwalk models are freaks of nature, most women have boobs, hips, bums and thighs regardless of their clothing size.
You can't tell me that the majority of these girls are healthy? Most of them look seriously ill with bones jutting out all over the place and pasty, pale complexions. Probably severely anemic from a lack of nutrients on top of everything else. I find them just as stomach churning to look at as obese people with flab hanging out everywhere. The fashion industry is promoting an unhealthy image by insisting on using these skeletons.
What an idiot this man is!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1287045/Designer-Julien-MacDonald-attacks-plus-size-models-branding-joke.html
He's just like most gay designers who design for models with figures like 12 year old boys and no chests or hips. That's fine on the catwalk, but doesn't translate to real life women.
There's room for all sizes on the catwalk as long as the frames - whatever size they are - show the clothng off to its best advantage.
Can't we just ban designers from making stupid comments like this? I'm sure he'd be horrified to know his (not so)cheapo Debenhams range goes all the way up to size 20... gasp!
in an ideal world the fashion industry would hire models of normal woman sizes but we are not in that ideal world.
He is simply stating facts... and what he is actually saying is sweet because he is telling the +size models there is no room for them in the industry and anyone that tells them otherwise is giving them false hope because even if they win the show he is hosting, they will not be hired for high end catwalk fashion shows. period.
But that's just it, catwalk clothes are made in sizes which mere mortal women on the high street couldn't get into.
Crystal Renn has been used by Chanel, but she's the exception.
Indeed, and many of the size 20's are sold out.
http://www.debenhams.com/women/star-by-julien-macdonald
Perhaps he should get his own house in order before he starts making remarks like that.
PMSL! I know, I was thinking the same. He must have been taking style tips from Bobby Charlton or something!:D
he can't accept the fact that times change and the modelling/ fashion world have moved on since the days of size zero...
he needs to stop living in the past and accept the fact that there is nothing bad about not looking like a stick insect.
just an awful, awful man.
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That's exactly it. Most women designers are better, Donna Karan, Stella McCartney, DVF, Betty Jackson, etc, because they have an understanding of what it is to be female. Some of the male designers probably never touch a woman except when doing dress fittings.
Well sorry to disagree but as a mere mortal woman, I have no problem getting into them. And the majority of my friends are a similar size to me. High end catwalk models are chosen for their ability to show off the designers' work to its best advantage and long lean frames do the job particularly well.
Edit: Mind you just googled and apparently she herself accused an 8 stone girl of being too fat to be a model on 'Germany's Next Supermodel'.:rolleyes:
Aren't you and your friends the 'lucky' ones then? :cool:
Karl Lagerfield. Him with a face like a melted orange candle.
Well no, I don't see it as being lucky, just the size I happen to be. And the size a lot of other people happen to be. I just object to the idea that the standard catwalk model is totally removed from reality. it's not.
They design for a body shape they fancy.
Which in their terms is pre-pubescent boys, with a straight up and down shape.
On the other hand, I think it's high time we saw far more plus sized women on the catwalk. Would one per show be difficult? Surely not. Women that are into fashion are not all size 4-10, slender women. With all the fashion magazines about now, fashion is open to a much wider audience including women that may be "plus size" and shorter than 5ft 9! At least put one plus size girl in to show women everywhere that they too can wear that designer's clothing and look fantastic.
Yes, exactly.
I think it's the mindset that has to change. Having only one plus sized model is almost as bad as not having any, it reeks of tokenism. I still think height is important for catwalk but a reasonable mix of up to (proportional) size 14 would be a good way forward.
I agree with this, the model being tall and slim shows off the line of the clothes.
Some people are naturally very skinny, nothing wrong with that, but they still look healthy, unlike a lot of these super-tall girls you see on catwalks.
I don't agree that that is the reason. It is more to do with showing off the clothes best. All gay designers are attracted to a pre-pubescent boy shape?