Zombie Models Big This Year?

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Zombie Models Big This Year?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:37 pm

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H&M’s “corpse-like” model stirs up controversy

You can't flip through a magazine, watch a television show or even walk down the street these days without being bombarded by airbrushed images of super-thin, gorgeous models, with legs for days and perfectly tousled hair. They're selling us food, clothing, makeup -- you name it -- and we're supposed to want what whatever it is that they're selling because they make it all look so good. It usually works.

But according to the UK's Daily Star, when images of H&M's Marni collaboration that were intended for press previews got released to the public, they triggered a series of negative reactions amongst British fashion editors and parents alike. This time, they weren't going to sit idly by while another too-skinny model was paraded around as the epitome of beauty.

The model in question was 26-year-old Aymeline Valade, from France, who has walked the runway for the likes of Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, Gucci, Chanel and Louis Vuitton, to name a few. She's graced the pages of W magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, so what was it about these particular images that rubbed people the wrong way?

"This model looks very unwell, almost corpse-like," says Dr. Julian Spinks to the Daily Star. "Her skin is grey, you can see prominent veins in her hands and she has huge eye bags," he says. "I find it incredible that a fashion store like H&M, which appeals to young people, is using an image which encourages them to be unhealthy."

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Re: Zombie Models Big This Year?

Post by maiforpeace » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:00 pm

Whether they look like death warmed over, or anything else, the one thing they never look like is...

REAL.

Anyway, one day I will look like that, so why get started early and spend all the extra money doing it?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:03 pm

:funny: Twenty thousand years from now, archeologists are digging up grave after grave with nothing in them but two plastic bubbles of silicon. :funny:
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:08 pm

Adds a little extra absurdity to this interesting decade? :smoke:
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Post by Gallstones » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:22 pm

Is the focus of some fashion designers to produce performance art or clothing?
If they are hoping to sell clothing they need to make it for real people. There can't be much of a market for clothing that only fits models.
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:39 pm

Gallstones wrote:Is the focus of some fashion designers to produce performance art or clothing?
If they are hoping to sell clothing they need to make it for real people. There can't be much of a market for clothing that only fits models.
The zombie movement is always on the increase these days? :funny:
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Post by Gallstones » Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:01 pm

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Post by Audley Strange » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:39 pm

Yeah this is us being trained up to find zombies attractive, because those who survive will have to find some way to get their jollies.
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Post by Drewish » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:41 pm

Beware the models who are only interested in you for your brains.
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Post by Audley Strange » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:55 pm

:funny: :funny:

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:21 pm

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