When the Fashion Industry Gets it Wrong

The internationally famous fashion model Coco Rocha recounts how someone in the fashion industry told her:  “The look this year is anorexia.  We don’t want you to be anorexic, but that’s what we want you to look like.”  (Vogue (American Edition), August 2008, p. 104)

As much as I love fashion (true fashion, not ephemeral trends), I have mixed feelings when I see the rotten, distorted image of women that is being thrust down our throats by the industry.  Time for another women’s liberation movement—from the crap the fashion industry tries to push on us.  I won’t blame the teenagers, who get sucked in before they have any idea of what a healthy body image is.  But the rest of us, those of us who know that is it a crock that is being foisted off on us, we should stand up and raise bloody hell.  Women are dying to be thin, and I don’t mean this metaphorically, either.  It’s about time we took back control of our own body image from the hands of others.  No more designers, editors, photographers, stylists or others (mostly men) deciding for us what look is good for us, as if one look or one size fits all.  Let the revolution begin.