YES.

[serinde]

Snarfed from a Salon article about the current tribulations of Kate Moss:

What this drama has done is lay bare the ugly skeleton that holds up a fashion industry that for some time has prized hollow cheeks and vacant eyes, stunted, prepubescent frames, and jutting collar bones from which fabric drapes beautifully. In other words, the body that is appealing to designers -- and thus to consumers -- is a body that looks like it has been ravaged by drugs. In order to stay employed, models must maintain this shape; to maintain the shape they must do something besides eat right and exercise regularly. Whether it's cocaine or speed or heroin or caffeine or cigarettes or anorexia or bulimia or some combination of the above, most adult women cannot get bodies that look like Moss' healthily, because hers is not a healthy body.

Fuckin' A, Bubba.

We can only hope that this, like the Dove ads, is another sign of a turning tide back to an admittance that women are not vertical lines from neck to knee.

Comments

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was definitely a good part of the article's point--the fact that Kate Moss being hung out to dry is a stunning display of hypocrisy from the entire fashion industry. That their whole sanctimonious "I am shocked, shocked! that one of our models might be using drugs" is, well, about as believable as when the line was used in Casablanca.

I just ganked the bit that had some personal relevance, see.