Charli Howard’s complaint that she was called too big is one more in a long lineA model,23-year-old Charli Howard, sparked controversy by posting on Facebook her experience with a modelling agency. Howard says that at size six-eight, and she was told she was “too big” and “out of shape”. Howard responded that although she wanted to model,she would no longer subscribe to the industry’s “unobtainable” standards. Well, pleasurable for Ms Howard. Still, and you’ve got to wonder whether there is truly anyone left out there who has yet to realise that the fashion world forces models to be excessively thin?The effect of marketing what could only be termed “normalised emaciation to ordinary females is a complicated subject for another time. This is approximately the self-emaciation of young females in fashion that has persisted for decades,despite the scandal of widespread food disorders and in some cases deaths. The reason for this is simple – not just designers but most fashion professionals believe that clothes look best (and sell best) on mostly young, extremely skinny females. This insight has never been seriously shaken, and despite the occasional foray on to the catwalk of plus-size ranges and models,which at best tend to be tokenistic.
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Source: theguardian.com