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I Spy: Shrinking Male Models

[Thursday, February 07, 2008 | 2 comments ]

The Good Ol' days: When male models made you drool...

Now, skinny male models are giving female waifs a run for their money...

Karl Lagerfeld and the man that started it all, Hedi Slimane.

All photos courtesy of NYT

If you haven't clicked on the NYT fashion section link on my page, now is the time. The fashion coverage is more fierce than ever with it being fashion show season! Here's a snippet from an article I read today (written by Guy Trebay) on the new male model image. It proves that in fashion there may be no such thing as a double standard.

Wasn’t it just a short time ago that the industry was up in arms about skinny models? Little over a year ago, in Spain, designers were commanded to choose models based on a healthy body mass index; physicians were installed at Italian casting calls; Diane von Furstenberg, the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, called a conference to ventilate the issue of unhealthy body imagery and eating disorders among models.

The models in question were women, and it’s safe to say that they remain as waiflike as ever. But something occurred while no one was looking. Somebody shrunk the men.

2 comments

Nathan said... @ July 29, 2008 at 4:49 AM: Ha! That was the article that got me to start looking into modeling!
Samantha Smikle said... @ July 29, 2008 at 9:34 AM: Word!? that's so crazy.
xo,
S.

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