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The latest kerfuffle from London’s Fashion Week is the walking out of two team members on knitwear designer Mark Fast’s crew.
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Gearing up for the event, the Canadian born, 28-year-old designer decided to add plus sized models to his showcase and two of his employees were apparently so upset by this that they quit.
I am so curious about the rationale behind these walk-outs that I must speculate as to the frame of mind of these people.
Were the following sentences uttered or thought?
“I must stand on my principles, and so even if it means I’m out of a job, I must stick to my low-IQ-stoner-surfer guns and say, ‘No fat chicks.’”
“I won’t have my name associated with a designer who would stoop to such a level as to let women who don’t spend a quarter of their lives vomiting walk the runway. It shows a lack of commitment to true fashion.”
“Models that take modeling seriously commit to torturous regimens of drug use and starvation. To allow women who don’t ascribe to these basic principles shows a lack of regard for professionalism and reflects poorly on me.”
I would really like to have a look at these quitters to better speculate on whether or not they have eating disorders themselves. Maybe they’re size 12-14s and are blind with jealousy thinking of the modeling careers they missed out on.
In any case, a quick look at the original Daily Mail article reveals photos of models who are considered plus sized, but are not fat by any stretch of the imagination.
This move on the part of Mark Fast has likely brought publicity and new clientele to his fashion label, and I wonder what it’s brought to the two crew members who are running scared.
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Unbelievable. The fashion world is certainly a strange one, and with people like that working the scene (and the immense influence fashion has on pop culture), it’s no wonder eating disorders and such are so prevalent in the world.
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How sad that being a size 12 is considered “plus.” And equally as sad is that including normal, beautiful woman in fashion week’s hoopla is ruffling feathers. Thank you for your inner-monologue quotes. They gave me a good laugh, although you probably gave those crew members way too much credit for using words with two syllables.
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Wow. I thought this mindset was so 80’s. I wish it were.
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I want the run way to only be populated with real women.
If fashion is art, and art reflects life, why do most models look like petulant, starving fourteen year old boys?
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Yeah, it’s funny the way the fashion industry works.
How is it smart to alienate your clientele by creating things that only really look good on waif thin anorexics?
But it’s still working for some reason, and far from truly alienating women to the cause of fashion, it seems we are taken in and fooled by these artificial beauty standards and the analysis we do finds ourselves lacking more so than the industry itself.
Even when we consciously know it’s all fake and weird, it still effects us.
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Hi,
I love this article I’m friends with the plus sized model, Hayley and she is absolutely stunning. Heaven forbid if these employees took the tube home and saw any ordinary people↵
