Oh, Snap! Anna Wintour's Fightin' Words
Have you read the editor's letter in the latest issue of Vogue? (It's the one with Gisele and LeBron James on the cover.) She talks about featuring certain models in the editorial pages of the Shape issue:
"...This month we also feature four newer models -- Caroline Trentini, Doutzen Kroes, Daria Werbowy, and Raquel Zimmermann -- who bring more to the profession than simply a long, lean body that can walk and pose.
I wish I could say the same for the young women who were just on the runways at the New York fall collections. Overall, they were pale and thin, and entirely lacking in the joyfulness and charm that once defined the supermodels. This is, of course, not their fault: Designers now near-uniformly favor a non-vivacious, homogenous ideal.
It's a strange time in the fashion industry. Our top talents, usually so adept at anticipating their public's preoccupations and desires, appear to me to be utterly disconnected from the cultural stream."
You can almost picture her staring down at the cowering designers over the tops of her dark sunglasses, icy disapproval dripping from her words! Still, she makes a point: past supermodels were a more diverse lot (and would look positively Amazonian and robust next to the whey-faced waifs of today). Fashion is often about fantasy, as always, but who dreams of looking like a sullen teenager who had her favorite toy taken away? I'd never thought I'd be saying this in reaction to Vogue's notoriously prickly editor-in-chief, but here it goes: amen and say it again!
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