'No one wants to see curvy women': German designer
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(AFP)
Curvy women have no place on the catwalk, iconic German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was quoted as saying Sunday, after a magazine said it was banning skinny models in favour of "real women".
"No one wants to see curvy women," Lagerfeld was quoted as saying on the website of news magazine Focus.
"You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly," he added.
The world of fashion is about "dreams and illusions", he said, dismissing as "absurd" the debate prompted by Brigitte magazine which said it would no longer feature professional models on its pages.
Brigitte, one of Germany's top women's magazines, said last week it would only publish photographs of "real women" after readers complained they could not identify with the models depicted.
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I prefer ladies to be a bit "firm and fruity", to be intelligent and witty and not willing to turn themselves into anorexic abominations because "fashion" says so.
Putting it bluntly, I will talk all day and all night with a large lady with a mind than some brain-dead stick insect who looks like she might fade away at any second.
As for Lagerfeld, going by this article, the guy sounds like an absolute idiot.
If you don't know that, you're too young or you haven't been paying much attention during your life!
Having said that, on a gig with a 20-stone girl in a gay club, the minute she got up to sing the crowd went nuts even before she opened her mouth. And none of them knew who she was. And she wasn't dead glam, either. 'It takes a big woman to sing a big song', in the immortal words of the drag queen who introduced the show. So big women do appeal to the gay community in their own way. Just not on the catwalk
So clearly, skinny models are the problem.
We need to dispel this ridiculous notion that women *must* be a certain shape or size in order to be sexy, interesting and/or valuable.
Dagny & Francisco
What the Hell Are You Talking About?
http://whayta09.wordpress.com
Many cultures of the world appreciate a woman not skin and bones and there is a difference when a curvy woman wears a dress or an outfit and when skin and bones do.
How people can look at a skeleton and say she is beautiful is still very puzzling to me. If a woman is naturally skinny, she is usually healthy with it thus looks good as well but when you have artificial skinny, these women look more like people dying from an incurable disease than fashion models but of course the public have been conditioned to see them as beautiful so they all collectively decide that she is very beautiful and they all want to be like her.
Listen fashion is beautiful but there are other definitions which coexist: you need all the flavors to make a world. There are plenty of Milwaukee Greyhound stations and the like- why can't there be a small space reserved for something more rarefied? And if normal- to- plus-size women want their haute couture let them create it - i do not see a single woman who has put together a modern relevant collection on a runway for larger women at fashion week EVER- except perhaps Monique (?)- god bless the bitch. Instead there's just a lot of grumbling and mediocrity in the market. But guaranteed, if big girls looked as good as waifs in designer clothes like they claim they do , they would be modeling them. No one's holding anyone back on principle. It's because clothes drape beautifully on tall fine-boned adolescent models and show best against a young lovely face with symmetrical features.
Ultimately the biggest problem with skinny models in high fashion is that it pisses off larger women to have to look at them. And makes them feel shitty about themselves, makes them grumpy and ornery. I feel that way when I'm around a bunch of Wall Street Guys or by anyone younger and better looking than me when i'm feeling particularly old and raggedy or by everyone in the Hamptons- period. It's anoying . Skinny girls are not going to go out of fashion until some great apocalyptic hardship and we become a very poor society- like Africa- and even then it would take a generation or two to adjust the aesthetic so dramatically- so you wouldn't live to see it. So deal with it.
look and see what happened to fiji and other islands (where women have always been voluptuous) as soon as they started getting fashion magazines - the young women became anorexic - something that was unheard of before
I say lets throw them away- no one can afford those clothes anymore anyway
Karl Lagerfeld is a freaken idiot for saying such stupidity. Unhealthy women have no place on the catwalk curves or no curves. Besides curvy does not equal fat and lardy, curvy is a just a women with a great behind and a nice set of perky ladies...salma hayek, elizabeth hurley, Carla Gugino, Kate Beckinsalef do I need more examples.
no one wants to see his ugly face but it is everywhere
take no notice of him
it is freaks like this who contribute to all the problems in the world and their ideas
BTY, curvy, healthy women are sexy, but the woman shown on this page and the one in the actual article are both extremes - anorexic and obese - not healthy.