tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30283441030552233832024-02-07T19:24:41.836-08:00Anorexic ModelsAnorexic Models become too skinny and some even end up dying on stage. Anorexia is a terrible sickness.Nubianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723067529731855320noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028344103055223383.post-47583057868352347282014-06-30T23:24:00.001-07:002014-10-05T16:46:29.405-07:00Do Sexy Hot Men Like Anorexic Women?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nubianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723067529731855320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028344103055223383.post-52749719529936220852013-10-06T22:48:00.001-07:002014-10-05T16:45:31.379-07:00These Women Are All Affiliate Marketers | Do They Look Anorexic?<br />
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<br />Nubianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723067529731855320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028344103055223383.post-8362032759077839212013-07-25T02:10:00.002-07:002013-07-25T02:14:20.181-07:00H&M CEO Karl-Johan Persson on Anorexic Models<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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is going swimmingly for Karl-Johan Persson, H&M’s young, handsome
CEO: Despite the global recession, the cheap-chic chain is doing well.
But the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has put H&M in the
spotlight – even though it, as Persson points out, didn’t use the
factory. But in an exclusive interview with Metro at H&M’s
headquarters in Stockholm, he proposed a new solution: a tag added to
every piece of clothing informing the customer whether it was made in a
safe factory.<br />
<b>Has the recession harmed H&M, or has it instead benefited you because people have turned to cheaper clothes?</b><br />
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</b>When the whole apparel market diminishes it affects H&M as
well, but at the same time I think more people discover H&M in times
like these because they start questioning their clothing purchases. In
general, too, people want a good look with a good quality for a low
price, and that’s what H&M offers. And our attitude is that we
always want to improve our offering, not just maximize profit. We’d been
able to get a bigger profit if we charged somewhat higher prices and
lowered the quality, and if we hadn’t invested many million dollars in
sustainability, but this is a way for us of giving back to the customer,
and that increases demand.<br />
<b>What’s your attitude about expensive brands? Are they an inspiration or an example of irresponsible extravagance?<br />
</b>There’s much to be inspired by on the design side, and we’ve
collaborated with several of them, like Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor &
Rolf. But when you look at the price-quality aspect, I don’t always
think they’re very impressive. They have very high margins.<br />
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<b>There’s a lot of debate about anorexic models right now.
Shouldn’t H&M introduce curvier models? If it did, both consumers
and the fashion industry would listen…<br />
</b>We have a huge responsibility here. We’re a large company, many
people see us, and we advertise a lot. I don’t think we’ve always been
good. Some of the models we’ve had have been too skinny. That’s
something we think a lot about and are working on.<br />
<a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1358826.1369939861!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/beyonce31f-3-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1358826.1369939861!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/beyonce31f-3-web.jpg" height="320" width="247" /></a>We want to show diversity in our advertising and not give people the
impression that girls have to look a particular way. By and large, I
think we’ve succeeded: We’ve many different kinds of models from
different ethnic backgrounds. In our last campaign we had a somewhat
more buxom model, and now we’re having Beyoncé, who’s a bit curvier as
well.<br />
I believe that the models in our advertising should look sound and
healthy. There are models who’re too thin or obviously underweight, but
there are also those who’re just thin, and they’re the ones we should
keep working with, as long as they look sound and healthy. We can get
more disciplined, because sometimes there have been mistakes. <br />
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<b>If you were to go to the fashion industry and say: “We’ve
introduced more buxom models, and you should too,” would they listen to
you or laugh?<br />
</b>It’s hard to say. It’s possible that we can help make a change,
but this is a huge industry. In some cases there are models where we
say, “H&M doesn’t work with such models.” So we’re not blind to the
issue. But I have to be honest and say that some of our models have been
too skinny. That’s not OK.<br />
<b>So will you become more involved with H&M choice of models?<br />
</b>We’ve talked a lot about it here at H&M. I say, healthy model, always! And everyone here feels the same way.<br />
<b>Perhaps the change in public attitudes towards too-skinny
models is similar to the growing interest in sustainability, which
companies are now acting on, too?<br />
</b>Customers care about these issues, and that puts pressure on us
as companies. It’s not just about maximizing profit; you have to do it
in a fair way, too. I want to feel proud today and when I leave H&M
and look back at what we’ve done. I want to feel that we were the just
company regarding our social responsibilities: caring about the
environment, choice of models, social issues.<br />
<b>Last month a clothing factory collapsed and killed more than
1,000 workers. Now H&M, the biggest manufacturer of clothes in
Bangladesh, has signed an agreement where you agree to help your
Bangladeshi suppliers pay for safety measures. Are the factories safe
now?<br />
</b>The factory collapse was horrific, but our code of conduct bans
use of factories in residential areas, so this was not an H&M
supplier. But we’ve been working to improve conditions in Bangladesh for
a long time. You can never be 100% sure. Accidents happen in Sweden,
too.<br />
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We already have 100 full-time inspectors who travel around to our
suppliers to make sure they adhere to our code of conduct when it comes
to building safety, fire safety, wages, overtime pay and so on. Our
inspectors make thousands of announced and unannounced visits every
year. The major change with the agreement is that we join up with other
buyers, with trade unions and with the government.<br />
<b>But isn’t the problem that people want cheap clothes? Then it will never make sense for a company to use better factories.<br />
</b>Yes, but it’s a common misperception that cheap brands use
certain manufacturers and expensive brands use others. We’re one of
30-40 companies buying from many of our suppliers. There are apparel
companies that charge their customers low prices, medium prices and high
prices. The workers’ pay is the same regardless of which company is
buying.If you look at an H&M top for SEK 99 and then look at one in a
different chain that costs SEK 999, many people think, “These workers
are much, much better paid.” But their pay is the same.<br />
What’s interesting is not the price of the clothing item but what the
company does. Don’t trust everything you see and hear in the media,
don’t look at the prices. Maybe I sound cocky, but I dare promise that
no apparel company in the whole world does as much as H&M. I don’t
think customers have that image.<br />
<b>The best in the world, what does that look like regarding factory workers? Pesticides?<br />
</b>We have a long list of chemicals that we ban from our clothes.
We’ve signed the new plan for building and fire safety in Bangladesh.
And through our code of conduct we demand that workers are paid the
wages they should have and also get overtime pay. We’re also involved in
the social dialogue and educate workers about their rights, for example
through a project with the Swedish metal workers union that teaches
factory workers the Swedish model. And we try to influence
decision-makers. I was recently in Bangladesh and spoke with the prime
minister about increasing the minimum wage.<br />
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<b>How did she respond?<br />
</b>We’ve already asked for it twice and they’ve raised it both
times, and now it looks like they’ll raise it again. It’s perhaps not
just thanks to H&M, but it shows that they’re listening to us. But
the prime minister’s comment was also that she has to consider all the
companies that might move to other countries if Bangladesh raises the
minimum salary. The textile industry in Bangladesh employs four million
people, and these people have gone from having no jobs to having these
jobs, so of course many are afraid of losing them.<br />
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I often hear that H&M should pay higher wages on its own. But in a
factory with 500 workers and 30 buyers, of which we’re one, it would be
complete chaos if we give the 20 workers who sew for us during a
certain period higher pay. So we have to find a model that’s sustainable
for the workers, the factories and the country. I’d love to find a
model where we can pay more as long as it’s sustainable for the country,
like Fair Trade. But it’s not an easy nut to crack when you consider
the country’s competitiveness and the fact that other companies have to
be willing to do the same.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ZVoxvCy8maNAs14ccwFQiHpN7Rr7QFyv9z6jCMV54j5Tewe5UznYMR1FqDmmzy9awGdXu5BVr837lMEEGk-vDyyoGg2F0UXihULbN6DAEwKM24jgWnvoww3wWKy8HBm2sqn7b3Dbkak/s640/Luisel-Ramos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ZVoxvCy8maNAs14ccwFQiHpN7Rr7QFyv9z6jCMV54j5Tewe5UznYMR1FqDmmzy9awGdXu5BVr837lMEEGk-vDyyoGg2F0UXihULbN6DAEwKM24jgWnvoww3wWKy8HBm2sqn7b3Dbkak/s640/Luisel-Ramos.jpg" height="320" width="129" /></a><b>But couldn’t consumers play a role here? If clothes that are
made in safe factories with decent minimal wages had a special tag I, as
a consumer, would know exactly what to buy and wouldn’t need to read
companies’ sustainability reports.<br />
</b>That would be the very best. Then you’d remove many of these
misperceptions that low store prices mean bad conditions for the factory
workers or poor sustainability.<br />
<b>Are you going to promote this idea to other apparel companies?<br />
</b>I’d love to sit down with other companies and find a model for
this. I can say here and now that H&M definitely is interested in
participating as long as we can find a sustainable model. I think we’ll
have that kind of Fair Trade-designation in a couple of years. But it
has to work for the country itself as well. We can’t sit in the
spectator stand and say that worker wages should be quadrupled in
Bangladesh.<br />
<b>How often do you wear H&M clothes?<br />
</b>Very often. The majority of my wardrobe is H&M.<br />
- See
more at:
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/national/2013/05/28/hm-ceo-karl-johan-persson-on-anorexic-models-bangladeshi-factory-workers/#sthash.ABirKoCE.dpuf
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<b>If
you were to go to the fashion industry and say: “We’ve introduced more
buxom models, and you should too,” would they listen to you or laugh?<br />
</b>It’s hard to say. It’s possible that we can help make a change,
but this is a huge industry. In some cases there are models where we
say, “H&M doesn’t work with such models.” So we’re not blind to the
issue. But I have to be honest and say that some of our models have been
too skinny. That’s not OK.<br />
<b>So will you become more involved with H&M choice of models?<br />
</b>We’ve talked a lot about it here at H&M. I say, healthy model, always! And everyone here feels the same way.<br />
<b>Perhaps the change in public attitudes towards too-skinny
models is similar to the growing interest in sustainability, which
companies are now acting on, too?<br />
</b>Customers care about these issues, and that puts pressure on us
as companies. It’s not just about maximizing profit; you have to do it
in a fair way, too. I want to feel proud today and when I leave H&M
and look back at what we’ve done. I want to feel that we were the just
company regarding our social responsibilities: caring about the
environment, choice of models, social issues.<br />
<b>Last month a clothing factory collapsed and killed more than
1,000 workers. Now H&M, the biggest manufacturer of clothes in
Bangladesh, has signed an agreement where you agree to help your
Bangladeshi suppliers pay for safety measures. Are the factories safe
now?<br />
</b>The factory collapse was horrific, but our code of conduct bans
use of factories in residential areas, so this was not an H&M
supplier. But we’ve been working to improve conditions in Bangladesh for
a long time. You can never be 100% sure. Accidents happen in Sweden,
too.<br />
We already have 100 full-time inspectors who travel around to our
suppliers to make sure they adhere to our code of conduct when it comes
to building safety, fire safety, wages, overtime pay and so on. Our
inspectors make thousands of announced and unannounced visits every
year. The major change with the agreement is that we join up with other
buyers, with trade unions and with the government.<br />
<b>But isn’t the problem that people want cheap clothes? Then it will never make sense for a company to use better factories.<br />
</b>Yes, but it’s a common misperception that cheap brands use
certain manufacturers and expensive brands use others. We’re one of
30-40 companies buying from many of our suppliers. There are apparel
companies that charge their customers low prices, medium prices and high
prices. The workers’ pay is the same regardless of which company is
buying.If you look at an H&M top for SEK 99 and then look at one in a
different chain that costs SEK 999, many people think, “These workers
are much, much better paid.” But their pay is the same.<br />
What’s interesting is not the price of the clothing item but what the
company does. Don’t trust everything you see and hear in the media,
don’t look at the prices. Maybe I sound cocky, but I dare promise that
no apparel company in the whole world does as much as H&M. I don’t
think customers have that image.<br />
<b>The best in the world, what does that look like regarding factory workers? Pesticides?<br />
</b>We have a long list of chemicals that we ban from our clothes.
We’ve signed the new plan for building and fire safety in Bangladesh.
And through our code of conduct we demand that workers are paid the
wages they should have and also get overtime pay. We’re also involved in
the social dialogue and educate workers about their rights, for example
through a project with the Swedish metal workers union that teaches
factory workers the Swedish model. And we try to influence
decision-makers. I was recently in Bangladesh and spoke with the prime
minister about increasing the minimum wage.<br />
<b>How did she respond?<br />
</b>We’ve already asked for it twice and they’ve raised it both
times, and now it looks like they’ll raise it again. It’s perhaps not
just thanks to H&M, but it shows that they’re listening to us. But
the prime minister’s comment was also that she has to consider all the
companies that might move to other countries if Bangladesh raises the
minimum salary. The textile industry in Bangladesh employs four million
people, and these people have gone from having no jobs to having these
jobs, so of course many are afraid of losing them.<br />
I often hear that H&M should pay higher wages on its own. But in a
factory with 500 workers and 30 buyers, of which we’re one, it would be
complete chaos if we give the 20 workers who sew for us during a
certain period higher pay. So we have to find a model that’s sustainable
for the workers, the factories and the country. I’d love to find a
model where we can pay more as long as it’s sustainable for the country,
like Fair Trade. But it’s not an easy nut to crack when you consider
the country’s competitiveness and the fact that other companies have to
be willing to do the same.<br />
<b>But couldn’t consumers play a role here? If clothes that are
made in safe factories with decent minimal wages had a special tag I, as
a consumer, would know exactly what to buy and wouldn’t need to read
companies’ sustainability reports.<br />
</b>That would be the very best. Then you’d remove many of these
misperceptions that low store prices mean bad conditions for the factory
workers or poor sustainability.<br />
<b>Are you going to promote this idea to other apparel companies?<br />
</b>I’d love to sit down with other companies and find a model for
this. I can say here and now that H&M definitely is interested in
participating as long as we can find a sustainable model. I think we’ll
have that kind of Fair Trade-designation in a couple of years. But it
has to work for the country itself as well. We can’t sit in the
spectator stand and say that worker wages should be quadrupled in
Bangladesh.<br />
<b>How often do you wear H&M clothes?<br />
</b>Very often. The majority of my wardrobe is H&M.<br />
- See
more at:
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/national/2013/05/28/hm-ceo-karl-johan-persson-on-anorexic-models-bangladeshi-factory-workers/#sthash.ABirKoCE.dpuf</div>
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Life
is going swimmingly for Karl-Johan Persson, H&M’s young, handsome
CEO: Despite the global recession, the cheap-chic chain is doing well.
But the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has put H&M in the
spotlight – even though it, as Persson points out, didn’t use the
factory. But in an exclusive interview with Metro at H&M’s
headquarters in Stockholm, he proposed a new solution: a tag added to
every piece of clothing informing the customer whether it was made in a
safe factory.<br />
<b>Has the recession harmed H&M, or has it instead benefited you because people have turned to cheaper clothes?<br />
</b>When the whole apparel market diminishes it affects H&M as
well, but at the same time I think more people discover H&M in times
like these because they start questioning their clothing purchases. In
general, too, people want a good look with a good quality for a low
price, and that’s what H&M offers. And our attitude is that we
always want to improve our offering, not just maximize profit. We’d been
able to get a bigger profit if we charged somewhat higher prices and
lowered the quality, and if we hadn’t invested many million dollars in
sustainability, but this is a way for us of giving back to the customer,
and that increases demand.<br />
<b>What’s your attitude about expensive brands? Are they an inspiration or an example of irresponsible extravagance?<br />
</b>There’s much to be inspired by on the design side, and we’ve
collaborated with several of them, like Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor &
Rolf. But when you look at the price-quality aspect, I don’t always
think they’re very impressive. They have very high margins.<br />
<b>There’s a lot of debate about anorexic models right now.
Shouldn’t H&M introduce curvier models? If it did, both consumers
and the fashion industry would listen…<br />
</b>We have a huge responsibility here. We’re a large company, many
people see us, and we advertise a lot. I don’t think we’ve always been
good. Some of the models we’ve had have been too skinny. That’s
something we think a lot about and are working on.<br />
We want to show diversity in our advertising and not give people the
impression that girls have to look a particular way. By and large, I
think we’ve succeeded: We’ve many different kinds of models from
different ethnic backgrounds. In our last campaign we had a somewhat
more buxom model, and now we’re having Beyoncé, who’s a bit curvier as
well.<br />
I believe that the models in our advertising should look sound and
healthy. There are models who’re too thin or obviously underweight, but
there are also those who’re just thin, and they’re the ones we should
keep working with, as long as they look sound and healthy. We can get
more disciplined, because sometimes there have been mistakes. <br />
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<b>If you were to go to the fashion industry and say: “We’ve
introduced more buxom models, and you should too,” would they listen to
you or laugh?<br />
</b>It’s hard to say. It’s possible that we can help make a change,
but this is a huge industry. In some cases there are models where we
say, “H&M doesn’t work with such models.” So we’re not blind to the
issue. But I have to be honest and say that some of our models have been
too skinny. That’s not OK.<br />
<b>So will you become more involved with H&M choice of models?<br />
</b>We’ve talked a lot about it here at H&M. I say, healthy model, always! And everyone here feels the same way.<br />
<b>Perhaps the change in public attitudes towards too-skinny
models is similar to the growing interest in sustainability, which
companies are now acting on, too?<br />
</b>Customers care about these issues, and that puts pressure on us
as companies. It’s not just about maximizing profit; you have to do it
in a fair way, too. I want to feel proud today and when I leave H&M
and look back at what we’ve done. I want to feel that we were the just
company regarding our social responsibilities: caring about the
environment, choice of models, social issues.<br />
<b>Last month a clothing factory collapsed and killed more than
1,000 workers. Now H&M, the biggest manufacturer of clothes in
Bangladesh, has signed an agreement where you agree to help your
Bangladeshi suppliers pay for safety measures. Are the factories safe
now?<br />
</b>The factory collapse was horrific, but our code of conduct bans
use of factories in residential areas, so this was not an H&M
supplier. But we’ve been working to improve conditions in Bangladesh for
a long time. You can never be 100% sure. Accidents happen in Sweden,
too.<br />
We already have 100 full-time inspectors who travel around to our
suppliers to make sure they adhere to our code of conduct when it comes
to building safety, fire safety, wages, overtime pay and so on. Our
inspectors make thousands of announced and unannounced visits every
year. The major change with the agreement is that we join up with other
buyers, with trade unions and with the government.<br />
<b>But isn’t the problem that people want cheap clothes? Then it will never make sense for a company to use better factories.<br />
</b>Yes, but it’s a common misperception that cheap brands use
certain manufacturers and expensive brands use others. We’re one of
30-40 companies buying from many of our suppliers. There are apparel
companies that charge their customers low prices, medium prices and high
prices. The workers’ pay is the same regardless of which company is
buying.If you look at an H&M top for SEK 99 and then look at one in a
different chain that costs SEK 999, many people think, “These workers
are much, much better paid.” But their pay is the same.<br />
What’s interesting is not the price of the clothing item but what the
company does. Don’t trust everything you see and hear in the media,
don’t look at the prices. Maybe I sound cocky, but I dare promise that
no apparel company in the whole world does as much as H&M. I don’t
think customers have that image.<br />
<b>The best in the world, what does that look like regarding factory workers? Pesticides?<br />
</b>We have a long list of chemicals that we ban from our clothes.
We’ve signed the new plan for building and fire safety in Bangladesh.
And through our code of conduct we demand that workers are paid the
wages they should have and also get overtime pay. We’re also involved in
the social dialogue and educate workers about their rights, for example
through a project with the Swedish metal workers union that teaches
factory workers the Swedish model. And we try to influence
decision-makers. I was recently in Bangladesh and spoke with the prime
minister about increasing the minimum wage.<br />
<b>How did she respond?<br />
</b>We’ve already asked for it twice and they’ve raised it both
times, and now it looks like they’ll raise it again. It’s perhaps not
just thanks to H&M, but it shows that they’re listening to us. But
the prime minister’s comment was also that she has to consider all the
companies that might move to other countries if Bangladesh raises the
minimum salary. The textile industry in Bangladesh employs four million
people, and these people have gone from having no jobs to having these
jobs, so of course many are afraid of losing them.<br />
I often hear that H&M should pay higher wages on its own. But in a
factory with 500 workers and 30 buyers, of which we’re one, it would be
complete chaos if we give the 20 workers who sew for us during a
certain period higher pay. So we have to find a model that’s sustainable
for the workers, the factories and the country. I’d love to find a
model where we can pay more as long as it’s sustainable for the country,
like Fair Trade. But it’s not an easy nut to crack when you consider
the country’s competitiveness and the fact that other companies have to
be willing to do the same.<br />
<b>But couldn’t consumers play a role here? If clothes that are
made in safe factories with decent minimal wages had a special tag I, as
a consumer, would know exactly what to buy and wouldn’t need to read
companies’ sustainability reports.<br />
</b>That would be the very best. Then you’d remove many of these
misperceptions that low store prices mean bad conditions for the factory
workers or poor sustainability.<br />
<b>Are you going to promote this idea to other apparel companies?<br />
</b>I’d love to sit down with other companies and find a model for
this. I can say here and now that H&M definitely is interested in
participating as long as we can find a sustainable model. I think we’ll
have that kind of Fair Trade-designation in a couple of years. But it
has to work for the country itself as well. We can’t sit in the
spectator stand and say that worker wages should be quadrupled in
Bangladesh.<br />
<b>How often do you wear H&M clothes?<br />
</b>Very often. The majority of my wardrobe is H&M.<br />
- See
more at:
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/national/2013/05/28/hm-ceo-karl-johan-persson-on-anorexic-models-bangladeshi-factory-workers/#sthash.ABirKoCE.dpuf</div>
Life
is going swimmingly for Karl-Johan Persson, H&M’s young, handsome
CEO: Despite the global recession, the cheap-chic chain is doing well.
But the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has put H&M in the
spotlight – even though it, as Persson points out, didn’t use the
factory. But in an exclusive interview with Metro at H&M’s
headquarters in Stockholm, he proposed a new solution: a tag added to
every piece of clothing informing the customer whether it was made in a
safe factory.<br />
<b>Has the recession harmed H&M, or has it instead benefited you because people have turned to cheaper clothes?<br />
</b>When the whole apparel market diminishes it affects H&M as
well, but at the same time I think more people discover H&M in times
like these because they start questioning their clothing purchases. In
general, too, people want a good look with a good quality for a low
price, and that’s what H&M offers. And our attitude is that we
always want to improve our offering, not just maximize profit. We’d been
able to get a bigger profit if we charged somewhat higher prices and
lowered the quality, and if we hadn’t invested many million dollars in
sustainability, but this is a way for us of giving back to the customer,
and that increases demand.<br />
<b>What’s your attitude about expensive brands? Are they an inspiration or an example of irresponsible extravagance?<br />
</b>There’s much to be inspired by on the design side, and we’ve
collaborated with several of them, like Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor &
Rolf. But when you look at the price-quality aspect, I don’t always
think they’re very impressive. They have very high margins.<br />
<b>There’s a lot of debate about anorexic models right now.
Shouldn’t H&M introduce curvier models? If it did, both consumers
and the fashion industry would listen…<br />
</b>We have a huge responsibility here. We’re a large company, many
people see us, and we advertise a lot. I don’t think we’ve always been
good. Some of the models we’ve had have been too skinny. That’s
something we think a lot about and are working on.<br />
We want to show diversity in our advertising and not give people the
impression that girls have to look a particular way. By and large, I
think we’ve succeeded: We’ve many different kinds of models from
different ethnic backgrounds. In our last campaign we had a somewhat
more buxom model, and now we’re having Beyoncé, who’s a bit curvier as
well.<br />
I believe that the models in our advertising should look sound and
healthy. There are models who’re too thin or obviously underweight, but
there are also those who’re just thin, and they’re the ones we should
keep working with, as long as they look sound and healthy. We can get
more disciplined, because sometimes there have been mistakes. <br />
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<b>If you were to go to the fashion industry and say: “We’ve
introduced more buxom models, and you should too,” would they listen to
you or laugh?<br />
</b>It’s hard to say. It’s possible that we can help make a change,
but this is a huge industry. In some cases there are models where we
say, “H&M doesn’t work with such models.” So we’re not blind to the
issue. But I have to be honest and say that some of our models have been
too skinny. That’s not OK.<br />
<b>So will you become more involved with H&M choice of models?<br />
</b>We’ve talked a lot about it here at H&M. I say, healthy model, always! And everyone here feels the same way.<br />
<b>Perhaps the change in public attitudes towards too-skinny
models is similar to the growing interest in sustainability, which
companies are now acting on, too?<br />
</b>Customers care about these issues, and that puts pressure on us
as companies. It’s not just about maximizing profit; you have to do it
in a fair way, too. I want to feel proud today and when I leave H&M
and look back at what we’ve done. I want to feel that we were the just
company regarding our social responsibilities: caring about the
environment, choice of models, social issues.<br />
<b>Last month a clothing factory collapsed and killed more than
1,000 workers. Now H&M, the biggest manufacturer of clothes in
Bangladesh, has signed an agreement where you agree to help your
Bangladeshi suppliers pay for safety measures. Are the factories safe
now?<br />
</b>The factory collapse was horrific, but our code of conduct bans
use of factories in residential areas, so this was not an H&M
supplier. But we’ve been working to improve conditions in Bangladesh for
a long time. You can never be 100% sure. Accidents happen in Sweden,
too.<br />
We already have 100 full-time inspectors who travel around to our
suppliers to make sure they adhere to our code of conduct when it comes
to building safety, fire safety, wages, overtime pay and so on. Our
inspectors make thousands of announced and unannounced visits every
year. The major change with the agreement is that we join up with other
buyers, with trade unions and with the government.<br />
<b>But isn’t the problem that people want cheap clothes? Then it will never make sense for a company to use better factories.<br />
</b>Yes, but it’s a common misperception that cheap brands use
certain manufacturers and expensive brands use others. We’re one of
30-40 companies buying from many of our suppliers. There are apparel
companies that charge their customers low prices, medium prices and high
prices. The workers’ pay is the same regardless of which company is
buying.If you look at an H&M top for SEK 99 and then look at one in a
different chain that costs SEK 999, many people think, “These workers
are much, much better paid.” But their pay is the same.<br />
What’s interesting is not the price of the clothing item but what the
company does. Don’t trust everything you see and hear in the media,
don’t look at the prices. Maybe I sound cocky, but I dare promise that
no apparel company in the whole world does as much as H&M. I don’t
think customers have that image.<br />
<b>The best in the world, what does that look like regarding factory workers? Pesticides?<br />
</b>We have a long list of chemicals that we ban from our clothes.
We’ve signed the new plan for building and fire safety in Bangladesh.
And through our code of conduct we demand that workers are paid the
wages they should have and also get overtime pay. We’re also involved in
the social dialogue and educate workers about their rights, for example
through a project with the Swedish metal workers union that teaches
factory workers the Swedish model. And we try to influence
decision-makers. I was recently in Bangladesh and spoke with the prime
minister about increasing the minimum wage.<br />
<b>How did she respond?<br />
</b>We’ve already asked for it twice and they’ve raised it both
times, and now it looks like they’ll raise it again. It’s perhaps not
just thanks to H&M, but it shows that they’re listening to us. But
the prime minister’s comment was also that she has to consider all the
companies that might move to other countries if Bangladesh raises the
minimum salary. The textile industry in Bangladesh employs four million
people, and these people have gone from having no jobs to having these
jobs, so of course many are afraid of losing them.<br />
I often hear that H&M should pay higher wages on its own. But in a
factory with 500 workers and 30 buyers, of which we’re one, it would be
complete chaos if we give the 20 workers who sew for us during a
certain period higher pay. So we have to find a model that’s sustainable
for the workers, the factories and the country. I’d love to find a
model where we can pay more as long as it’s sustainable for the country,
like Fair Trade. But it’s not an easy nut to crack when you consider
the country’s competitiveness and the fact that other companies have to
be willing to do the same.<br />
<b>But couldn’t consumers play a role here? If clothes that are
made in safe factories with decent minimal wages had a special tag I, as
a consumer, would know exactly what to buy and wouldn’t need to read
companies’ sustainability reports.<br />
</b>That would be the very best. Then you’d remove many of these
misperceptions that low store prices mean bad conditions for the factory
workers or poor sustainability.<br />
<b>Are you going to promote this idea to other apparel companies?<br />
</b>I’d love to sit down with other companies and find a model for
this. I can say here and now that H&M definitely is interested in
participating as long as we can find a sustainable model. I think we’ll
have that kind of Fair Trade-designation in a couple of years. But it
has to work for the country itself as well. We can’t sit in the
spectator stand and say that worker wages should be quadrupled in
Bangladesh.<br />
<b>How often do you wear H&M clothes?<br />
</b>Very often. The majority of my wardrobe is H&M.<br />
- See
more at:
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Life
is going swimmingly for Karl-Johan Persson, H&M’s young, handsome
CEO: Despite the global recession, the cheap-chic chain is doing well.
But the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has put H&M in the
spotlight – even though it, as Persson points out, didn’t use the
factory. But in an exclusive interview with Metro at H&M’s
headquarters in Stockholm, he proposed a new solution: a tag added to
every piece of clothing informing the customer whether it was made in a
safe factory.<br />
<b>Has the recession harmed H&M, or has it instead benefited you because people have turned to cheaper clothes?<br />
</b>When the whole apparel market diminishes it affects H&M as
well, but at the same time I think more people discover H&M in times
like these because they start questioning their clothing purchases. In
general, too, people want a good look with a good quality for a low
price, and that’s what H&M offers. And our attitude is that we
always want to improve our offering, not just maximize profit. We’d been
able to get a bigger profit if we charged somewhat higher prices and
lowered the quality, and if we hadn’t invested many million dollars in
sustainability, but this is a way for us of giving back to the customer,
and that increases demand.<br />
<b>What’s your attitude about expensive brands? Are they an inspiration or an example of irresponsible extravagance?<br />
</b>There’s much to be inspired by on the design side, and we’ve
collaborated with several of them, like Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor &
Rolf. But when you look at the price-quality aspect, I don’t always
think they’re very impressive. They have very high margins.<br />
<b>There’s a lot of debate about anorexic models right now.
Shouldn’t H&M introduce curvier models? If it did, both consumers
and the fashion industry would listen…<br />
</b>We have a huge responsibility here. We’re a large company, many
people see us, and we advertise a lot. I don’t think we’ve always been
good. Some of the models we’ve had have been too skinny. That’s
something we think a lot about and are working on.<br />
We want to show diversity in our advertising and not give people the
impression that girls have to look a particular way. By and large, I
think we’ve succeeded: We’ve many different kinds of models from
different ethnic backgrounds. In our last campaign we had a somewhat
more buxom model, and now we’re having Beyoncé, who’s a bit curvier as
well.<br />
I believe that the models in our advertising should look sound and
healthy. There are models who’re too thin or obviously underweight, but
there are also those who’re just thin, and they’re the ones we should
keep working with, as long as they look sound and healthy. We can get
more disciplined, because sometimes there have been mistakes. <br />
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<b>If you were to go to the fashion industry and say: “We’ve
introduced more buxom models, and you should too,” would they listen to
you or laugh?<br />
</b>It’s hard to say. It’s possible that we can help make a change,
but this is a huge industry. In some cases there are models where we
say, “H&M doesn’t work with such models.” So we’re not blind to the
issue. But I have to be honest and say that some of our models have been
too skinny. That’s not OK.<br />
<b>So will you become more involved with H&M choice of models?<br />
</b>We’ve talked a lot about it here at H&M. I say, healthy model, always! And everyone here feels the same way.<br />
<b>Perhaps the change in public attitudes towards too-skinny
models is similar to the growing interest in sustainability, which
companies are now acting on, too?<br />
</b>Customers care about these issues, and that puts pressure on us
as companies. It’s not just about maximizing profit; you have to do it
in a fair way, too. I want to feel proud today and when I leave H&M
and look back at what we’ve done. I want to feel that we were the just
company regarding our social responsibilities: caring about the
environment, choice of models, social issues.<br />
<b>Last month a clothing factory collapsed and killed more than
1,000 workers. Now H&M, the biggest manufacturer of clothes in
Bangladesh, has signed an agreement where you agree to help your
Bangladeshi suppliers pay for safety measures. Are the factories safe
now?<br />
</b>The factory collapse was horrific, but our code of conduct bans
use of factories in residential areas, so this was not an H&M
supplier. But we’ve been working to improve conditions in Bangladesh for
a long time. You can never be 100% sure. Accidents happen in Sweden,
too.<br />
We already have 100 full-time inspectors who travel around to our
suppliers to make sure they adhere to our code of conduct when it comes
to building safety, fire safety, wages, overtime pay and so on. Our
inspectors make thousands of announced and unannounced visits every
year. The major change with the agreement is that we join up with other
buyers, with trade unions and with the government.<br />
<b>But isn’t the problem that people want cheap clothes? Then it will never make sense for a company to use better factories.<br />
</b>Yes, but it’s a common misperception that cheap brands use
certain manufacturers and expensive brands use others. We’re one of
30-40 companies buying from many of our suppliers. There are apparel
companies that charge their customers low prices, medium prices and high
prices. The workers’ pay is the same regardless of which company is
buying.If you look at an H&M top for SEK 99 and then look at one in a
different chain that costs SEK 999, many people think, “These workers
are much, much better paid.” But their pay is the same.<br />
What’s interesting is not the price of the clothing item but what the
company does. Don’t trust everything you see and hear in the media,
don’t look at the prices. Maybe I sound cocky, but I dare promise that
no apparel company in the whole world does as much as H&M. I don’t
think customers have that image.<br />
<b>The best in the world, what does that look like regarding factory workers? Pesticides?<br />
</b>We have a long list of chemicals that we ban from our clothes.
We’ve signed the new plan for building and fire safety in Bangladesh.
And through our code of conduct we demand that workers are paid the
wages they should have and also get overtime pay. We’re also involved in
the social dialogue and educate workers about their rights, for example
through a project with the Swedish metal workers union that teaches
factory workers the Swedish model. And we try to influence
decision-makers. I was recently in Bangladesh and spoke with the prime
minister about increasing the minimum wage.<br />
<b>How did she respond?<br />
</b>We’ve already asked for it twice and they’ve raised it both
times, and now it looks like they’ll raise it again. It’s perhaps not
just thanks to H&M, but it shows that they’re listening to us. But
the prime minister’s comment was also that she has to consider all the
companies that might move to other countries if Bangladesh raises the
minimum salary. The textile industry in Bangladesh employs four million
people, and these people have gone from having no jobs to having these
jobs, so of course many are afraid of losing them.<br />
I often hear that H&M should pay higher wages on its own. But in a
factory with 500 workers and 30 buyers, of which we’re one, it would be
complete chaos if we give the 20 workers who sew for us during a
certain period higher pay. So we have to find a model that’s sustainable
for the workers, the factories and the country. I’d love to find a
model where we can pay more as long as it’s sustainable for the country,
like Fair Trade. But it’s not an easy nut to crack when you consider
the country’s competitiveness and the fact that other companies have to
be willing to do the same.<br />
<b>But couldn’t consumers play a role here? If clothes that are
made in safe factories with decent minimal wages had a special tag I, as
a consumer, would know exactly what to buy and wouldn’t need to read
companies’ sustainability reports.<br />
</b>That would be the very best. Then you’d remove many of these
misperceptions that low store prices mean bad conditions for the factory
workers or poor sustainability.<br />
<b>Are you going to promote this idea to other apparel companies?<br />
</b>I’d love to sit down with other companies and find a model for
this. I can say here and now that H&M definitely is interested in
participating as long as we can find a sustainable model. I think we’ll
have that kind of Fair Trade-designation in a couple of years. But it
has to work for the country itself as well. We can’t sit in the
spectator stand and say that worker wages should be quadrupled in
Bangladesh.<br />
<b>How often do you wear H&M clothes?<br />
</b>Very often. The majority of my wardrobe is H&M.<br />
- See
more at:
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/national/2013/05/28/hm-ceo-karl-johan-persson-on-anorexic-models-bangladeshi-factory-workers/#sthash.ABirKoCE.dpuf</div>
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Romanian model Ioana Spangenberg has a freakish figure:
She has a natural 20-inch waist in contrast to her 32-inch hips. At 84
pounds and with her wide hips and tiny waist, the 30-year- old model has
been dubbed by the UK’s The Sun newspaper as “the human hourglass.”<br />
Spangenberg said she eats three square meals daily but cannot gain
weight in her mid area. She said when she was 13 years old her waist was
around 15 inches wide.<br />
<a href="http://www.italian-fashion-designer.com/images/anorexic-model.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.italian-fashion-designer.com/images/anorexic-model.jpg" /></a>“Someone could put their hands around it, their fingers would touch and they would still have extra room,” she told The Sun.<br />
<b>“No one seems to believe it, but every day I eat three big meals and I snack on chocolate and crisps all the time,”</b>
Spangenberg added. “I just have a small stomach. It’s a bit like having
a natural gastric band – if I eat too much, I feel sick.”<br />
Spangenberg told the paper that when she was in her 20s she struggled with her self-esteem.<br />
“In Romania it is better to be overweight, because that means you are
from a wealthy family…so while my friends were going out and dating, I
was sitting at home with Mars bars wishing I could fatten up,” she said.</blockquote>
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wWn184Xv2mQ<br />
I am not sure if that is true… unless she has some serious underlying
illness, maybe a thyroid disfunction or something. her ribs and bones
are showing everywhere.<br />
It is a fact that she likes the audience attention, because else she
would not be making those modelling pictures, some of them in very
provocative poses.<br />
But let’s presume that she has starved herself into looking like
this, maybe with the help of corsets to narrow down the waist over the
years.<br />
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It is all about being perceived as special, as something “more”, or to
be desired. It is an effect of a shallow world where human beings
destroy their body in order to get possitive attention. And that is
truly sad.<br />
We destroy our bodies, to be accepted. But the thing is, when you
self-esteem is so low that you start to do this, the acceptance of
others will NEVER be enough. Because in the beauty industry, one day
your in, the other your out. And when your “out” you have no
self-confidence to fall back on. You at one point will loose others
acceptance. And it is fucked up that many of that acceptance is based on
wether they think your profitable or not. You become an object of the
industry.<br />
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The other day I was watching a documentary about a woman who was
going to starve herself into size 0. At one point she wanted to do an
experiment.<br />
She stood near a big board that said “looking for models”, with a scale
and measure stick. A lot of young girls came by, and she asked them: if I
would ask you to loose 5kg and starve yourself to become a model, are
you willing to do this because you need to loose some weight?<br />
Most of them said yes.<br />
And it shocked her a lot, that girls are driven so far that they would damage their health to be a “model”.<br />
But model life is not as glamorous as it seems.<br />
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MEARS: Well, there’s a lot of misleading conceptions
about what the modeling life is like. In part that’s due to the nature
of the job. It’s what we would call a winner-take-all industry, meaning
that you have a handful of winners at the top of the hierarchy who are
making very visible and very lucrative rewards, and we see that all the
time celebrated in the popular press.<br />
However, there’s an enormous pile of people who are struggling to
make ends meet or just getting by, that are hoping for their chance to
become winners as well. And so when we de-center those winners, and we
don’t look at them, but rather we look at all the invisible people that
are trying to become them, we get a pretty different picture, exactly
the opposite of what most people think modeling is like.<br />
It is technically what a sociologist would call – it’s structurally a bad job, meaning that it’s precarious work.<br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140882246/the-life-of-a-fashion-model-grueling-not-glitzy">http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140882246/the-life-of-a-fashion-model-grueling-not-glitzy</a><br />
<a href="http://intentblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1020_weight-loss-diet-slim-obesity_400x400-300x300.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://intentblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1020_weight-loss-diet-slim-obesity_400x400-300x300.jpeg" /></a>You can also see videos about it here: <a href="http://www.makingitinmakeup.com/2011/09/not-so-glamorous-model-life.html">http://www.makingitinmakeup.com/2011/09/not-so-glamorous-model-life.html</a></blockquote>
So what we do, is have girls starving and destroying themselves, in order to make profit.<br />
I mean, at fashion shows, we are literally sitting on chairs, where
young anorexic girls are showing off clothing, walking around in front
of our eyes, killing themselves… and we are like: ooooo nice clothing,
ooeee look at that skirt. Omg this is awesome! And applaud.<br />
It is really sick behavior. If I was not used to it, and I was an alien
from another planet. I would be like: THE FUCK??? What a dangerous
species those humans are! They exploit and destroy their own kind for
profit!<br />
Girls please don’t fall for these traps. You dont need the world
approval to be “good enough” or “pretty enough”. You don’t need the
model agents to think your beautiful so that they can USE you. Are that
really the kind of people you want to attract? The people that care only
about how you look and make you destroy your body, the body that
supports your life day in day out?<br />
<br />
Another point is, that this woman is now all over the media. Some of
them talk shit about her or eating disorders in general, act like it is
wrong etc… but on the other hand promote anorexia and starvation. I
guess as long as it makes money, it is all alright.<br />
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Nubianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723067529731855320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028344103055223383.post-83805228140321828052013-07-11T17:01:00.002-07:002014-10-05T16:40:45.285-07:00Modeling Industry Still Obsessed With Unhealthy Anorexic Models<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the 80s and early 90s, the Supermodel made her debut. Naomi
Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Linda Evangelista ruled the catwalk with
their tall, slim, and muscular figures. Then came Kate Moss, who changed
the face of modeling. Not only was she considered short by fashion
standards (5’7″) but she was wafer thin, a significant physical change
from the amazonian supermodels from a few years earlier. She ushered in a
new look of “heroin chic” where hollowed faces and protruding bones
were de rigueur and reflected the mid 90′s obsession with drug culture.
Next, Gisele Bundchen and her fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels brought
back the sexy supermodel look, albeit a much thinner version. And
finally, we land on the current fashion climate. High fashion is still
hungry for the razor thin and very tall frame. But there’s a problem:
very few women are 5’10″ and can fit into a sample size (generally a
very small size 0 or 2). So what’s a modeling agent to do?<br />
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Apparently, they are left to scout teenagers in treatment for eating
disorders at hospitals. These vultures swoop in to pick over the bones
of the very sick and mentally unwell.<br />
According to <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/04/22/modeling_scouts_recruit_teen_patients_at_swedish_anorexia_clinic_are_you.html">Slate</a>:<br />
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…the clinic had to change when and where patients could
take their daily walks around the grounds because girls kept getting
approached. One 14-year-old was handed a business card; an agent
interviewed another girl who was so emaciated that she had been confined
to a wheelchair.</blockquote>
It’s a sobering reminder of the human condition: the powerful preying
upon the powerless. But it shouldn’t really surprise us – this nearly
unattainable body type is represented on fashion runways and in suburban
malls. Walk into any retail store and look at the mannequins. Most
likely, they’re very tall and extremely thin, wearing size 2 pants with
the extra fabric secured by a clip. I’ll admit that when I see a
“larger” mannequin, I’m taken aback. Is the store trying to make a
point? Did I just walk into a plus-size specialty retailer?<br />
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Our country is facing an epidemic of obesity, <a href="http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/">with an astounding 69% of American adults and 32% of children considered overweight or obese</a>. But our obsession with thin continues, to the point where thin is fat and emaciated is normal. Just 20 years ago, <a href="http://www.raderprograms.com/causes-statistics/media-eating-disorders.html">models on average weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today’s models weigh 23% less than the average woman.</a> As women have gotten larger, models have gotten smaller.<br />
Could this trend reflect our self-loathing and desire to be our
physical selves’ polar opposite? If fashion is fantasy, maybe we’re
dreaming of a world where our clothes hang rather than cling, where we
scour the racks for the smallest size available, and where our friends
beg us to eat our food.<br />
Scouting models at eating disorder clinics is despicable, and unfortunately <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2013/02/the-dark-side-of-modeling/">par for the course for the majority of the modeling industry</a>.
They continue to show godless indifference to the women (and often
girls) who enrich designers and who hawk their wares season after
season, sometimes for little to no pay. Maybe this latest scandal is a
sign that the modeling industry’s tactics have hit rock bottom. They’ve
got nowhere to go but up.<br />
Anyone who has ever watched a season, oh I'm sorry, "cycle" of <i><a href="http://www.hollywood.com/tv/Americas_Next_Top_Model/5108986">America's Next Top Model</a></i> knows that host and mastermind <a href="http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/188700/Tyra_Banks">Tyra Banks</a>
loves to talk about her curves and her "badonkadonk." Now she is
helping to lead the charge against the modeling industry using models
that look too-thin and who are underage. But, don't worry, she's doing
it in classic ridiculous Banks style.<br />
Earlier this month, the 19 editors of all the international editions of fashion bible <i>Vogue</i>
said that they would no longer allow models under 16 or who looked like
they had an eating disorder on their pages. It is a big change, and one
that Banks has embraced. After all, Banks was doing it before it was
cool, even ejecting <a href="http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-top-model,0,3322412.story">a contestant on <i>ANTM</i> who looked too thin</a> way back in 2010.<br />
Now, Banks is taking up <i>Vogue</i>'s message and has penned an <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/tyra-banks-open-letter-to-models-vogue-to-images-of-anorexia.html">open letter to the industry</a> crying for change. She also <a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/tyra-banks-built-her-modeling-career-over-pizza-180441983--abc-news-celebrities.html">went on <i>Good Morning America</i></a>
to help launch her crusade. All of us who know and love Banks see she's
doing it the only way she knows how, with stories about herself, her
own career, and how she is a source of inspiration for all the models
everywhere in the whole, beautiful world. At least she didn't plug her <a href="http://www.hollywood.com/news/celebrities/27697285/tyra-banks-is-leading-the-charge-against-anorexic-models?page=all">ridiculous book</a>.<br />
<a href="http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/3A/764FA540BE14A68C51AD45BE73F9B_h316_w628_m5_cmvdusYsm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/3A/764FA540BE14A68C51AD45BE73F9B_h316_w628_m5_cmvdusYsm.jpg" height="161" width="320" /></a> Here's a paragraph from her letter, "In my early 20s I
was a size four. But then I started to get curvy. My agency gave my mom
a list of designers that didn’t want to book me in their fashion shows
anymore. In order to continue working, I would’ve had to fight Mother
Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition. As my mom wiped
the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do
about this? We’re going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in
Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball."<br />
Banks is trying to inspire young models with one of
her silly new words. No, it's not "bootie tooch," it's "flawsome," which
is that girls look "awesome" when they embrace their "flaws." (Oh,
Tyra. Never change.) It's a good one, but it's no "smize."<br />
The most revolutionary thing about Banks' letter,
however, may be her call to form a modeling union. She didn't full-on
endorse the <a href="http://modelalliance.org/">Model Alliance</a>, a
newly formed trade union for fashion models that is trying to gain
traction and fight abuse, but maybe she should have. Maybe what they
really need is Banks, with her zany stories and funny slang to help
bring the cause to middle America and the young girls who watch the CW.
Either way, we can't wait to see how Banks is going to start the
revolution on the next cycle of <i>ANTM</i>. I see a Che Guevara fashion shoot in our future.</div>
Nubianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723067529731855320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028344103055223383.post-61828892725744177642013-07-11T16:56:00.000-07:002014-10-05T16:43:35.762-07:00Tyra Banks Leading Charges Against Anorexic Models<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anyone who has ever watched a season, oh I'm sorry, "cycle" of <i><a href="http://www.hollywood.com/tv/Americas_Next_Top_Model/5108986">America's Next Top Model</a></i> knows that host and mastermind <a href="http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/188700/Tyra_Banks">Tyra Banks</a>
loves to talk about her curves and her "badonkadonk." Now she is
helping to lead the charge against the modeling industry using models
that look too-thin and who are underage. But, don't worry, she's doing
it in classic ridiculous Banks style.<br />
Earlier this month, the 19 editors of all the international editions of fashion bible <i>Vogue</i>
said that they would no longer allow models under 16 or who looked like
they had an eating disorder on their pages. It is a big change, and one
that Banks has embraced. After all, Banks was doing it before it was
cool, even ejecting <a href="http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-top-model,0,3322412.story">a contestant on <i>ANTM</i> who looked too thin</a> way back in 2010.<br />
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/LIvFw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="405" id="irc_mi" src="http://i.imgur.com/LIvFw.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="540" /></a>Now, Banks is taking up <i>Vogue</i>'s message and has penned an <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/tyra-banks-open-letter-to-models-vogue-to-images-of-anorexia.html">open letter to the industry</a> crying for change. She also <a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/tyra-banks-built-her-modeling-career-over-pizza-180441983--abc-news-celebrities.html">went on <i>Good Morning America</i></a>
to help launch her crusade. All of us who know and love Banks see she's
doing it the only way she knows how, with stories about herself, her
own career, and how she is a source of inspiration for all the models
everywhere in the whole, beautiful world. At least she didn't plug her <a href="http://www.hollywood.com/news/celebrities/27697285/tyra-banks-is-leading-the-charge-against-anorexic-models?page=all">ridiculous book</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/wenn352334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="405" id="irc_mi" src="http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/wenn352334.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="270" /></a>Here's a paragraph from her letter, "In my early 20s I
was a size four. But then I started to get curvy. My agency gave my mom
a list of designers that didn’t want to book me in their fashion shows
anymore. In order to continue working, I would’ve had to fight Mother
Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition. As my mom wiped
the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do
about this? We’re going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in
Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball."<br />
Banks is trying to inspire young models with one of
her silly new words. No, it's not "bootie tooch," it's "flawsome," which
is that girls look "awesome" when they embrace their "flaws." (Oh,
Tyra. Never change.) It's a good one, but it's no "smize."<br />
The most revolutionary thing about Banks' letter,
however, may be her call to form a modeling union. She didn't full-on
endorse the <a href="http://modelalliance.org/">Model Alliance</a>, a
newly formed trade union for fashion models that is trying to gain
traction and fight abuse, but maybe she should have. Maybe what they
really need is Banks, with her zany stories and funny slang to help
bring the cause to middle America and the young girls who watch the CW.
Either way, we can't wait to see how Banks is going to start the
revolution on the next cycle of <i>ANTM</i>. I see a Che Guevara fashion shoot in our future.</div>
Nubianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723067529731855320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028344103055223383.post-20091502833702275212013-07-11T16:54:00.002-07:002014-10-05T16:38:24.192-07:0010 Most Shocking Anorexic Cases Ever<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The twin doctors who made a pact of starving of never gaining weight</h2>
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They're trained doctors whose parents are distinguished writers - yet
for 20 years these identical twins have competed with each other in the
most disturbing way imaginable. Even now, with preternaturally childish
bodies and voices, the young women <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">admit</span> they struggle to make sense of what has happened to their lives.<br />
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To
the utter despair of their parents — 58-year-old Christy and his wife
Clare, 56 — the twins have spent most of their teenage and adult life in
and out of various recovery clinics. Today, the twins will be
hospitalised again for several months — only this time, they say, they
are determined to beat the disease.<br />
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This was not the first case
of twin anorexia to gain global attention; twin sisters Michaela and
Samantha Kendall also fought anorexia for many years. Michaela died in
1994 from the direct effects of anorexia on her body, and Samantha
fought to recover and was not at an extremely low weight when she died,
but committed suicide in 1997.
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The male model who died from anorexia</h2>
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Jeremy Gillitzer was once a male model with stunning looks and a
six-pack. But what most people don't know is that behind that great
look, he battled anorexia and bulimia for most of his adult life.
Through a regime of chronic starvation, self-induced vomiting and
relentless <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">exercise</span>, he whittled his body down to practically nothing. When he died in 2010 at the age of 38, he weighed 66 pounds.<br />
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<nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.2medusa.com/2009/08/jeremy-gillitzer-shadow-of-his-former.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The anorexic mom who wears the same cloths as her 7-yr-old daughter</h2>
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Standing side-by-side in matching outfits, you'd be forgiven for
mistaking Rebecca and Maisy Jones as sisters. But, in fact, this is a
picture of a 26-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter. After
suffering from anorexia half her life, Rebecca's tiny frame fits easily
into clothes designed for seven to eight year olds. Weighing just five <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">stone</span>, the young mother weighs less than her daughter, despite standing eight inches taller.<br />
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"Wearing
the same clothes as Maisy gives me a sense of pride. It's wrong, but it
makes me feel good. I don't think I'm thin - I always see myself as
bigger." <br />
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The medical secretary survives on soup, toast and
energy drinks – even though doctors have warned her the lack of
nutrients could kill her. At the same time she encourages 5st 9lb Maisy
to enjoy chocolate and cupcakes.
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2058761/Anorexic-mother-Rebecca-Jones-weighs-daughter-Maisy-7.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The anorexic girl who would walk 12 hours a day to lose weight</h2>
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An anorexic woman who dropped to three-and-a-half stone after <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">walking</span>
up to 12 hours a day has battled back to health. Lauren Bailey's
healthy look masks a ten-year struggle to overcome the condition which
nearly killed her after her weight dropped to that of an average
five-year-old. The 26-year-old, who would obsessively pace the streets
from 6am to 6pm, spent 18 months in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">hospital</span> in a last-ditch bid to overcome her anorexia.
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1009082/Anorexic-woman-dropped-stone-walking-12-hours-day.html#ixzz1dhjJQR00" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The mother who fought against her daughter's anorexia by losing three stones in diet pact</h2>
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Dolly Jenkinson is the mother of an anorexic. She can't pinpoint exactly
when her daughter Ruth, now 17, developed the eating disorder that
almost killed her, but Dolly, 44, has been on the journey with her, and
is ¬brutally honest about where it led. Few mothers of anorexics would
have taken ‘playing the game' to the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">level</span> Dolly did. After years of accompanying her daughter to conventional treatment sessions, GP <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">visits</span>,
even signing the papers to hospitalise her, Dolly, a ¬manager for a
construction firm from Northover, Essex, came up with her own idea of
how to help Ruth beat anorexia.<br />
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So what was her solution?
Incredibly, she went on a diet, joining Ruth in a calorie-controlled
‘pact' even she describes as illogical. Dolly admits not everyone shares
her enthusiasm for the way she has handled the situation. She says the
family therapist charged with helping them cope with Ruth's anorexia was
horrified by her radical ‘solution'. <br />
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To date, Dolly has lost
3st and is a size 10; while Ruth has put on 2st - although she is still
very thin and, arguably, has a long way to go.
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1332847/The-mother-whos-trying-cure-daughters-anorexia--going-diet-herself.html#ixzz1di9rBm49" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The mother who suffered from pregorexia and now fights to promote eating disorder awareness </h2>
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While most expectant mothers marvel at <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">the site</span>
of their growing baby bumps, Maggie Baumann says she was "horrified."
"As my stomach began to grow, I remember being in the shower and my bump
was sticking out and I looked down at my body and I thought, 'I don't
even want to be in this body,'" said Baumann.<br />
Baumann, a 48-year-old
mother of two, says she struggled with an eating disorder during her
pregnancies, a condition sometimes referred to as "pregorexia." "I
wasn't even thinking about the baby," said Baumann of her first
daughter, Christine, who is now 23. <br />
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Baumann, who lives in Laguna
Niguel, Calif., struggled with anorexia since her high school years,
but that it worsened after she got married and began having children. "I
feared my pregnancy," said Baumann, who gained a normal 33 pounds
during her first pregnancy. "I refused to buy maternity clothes and our
neighbors didn't even know I was pregnant until the ninth month. I hid
it well."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimrPu7y8tBh1F9aG2NoYGkrkhMnNIXbQhk3qEigWoI9mLX3mTwiJHks2qXroTW40Zy8SgJyYUTWZhdrB7G4StMG1jztXTHImGmdPXVmL0w1G5F4PrsFg6x1AZh6qZhshm9Hy8YCBJfYAbe/s1600/shocking+anorexic+case.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimrPu7y8tBh1F9aG2NoYGkrkhMnNIXbQhk3qEigWoI9mLX3mTwiJHks2qXroTW40Zy8SgJyYUTWZhdrB7G4StMG1jztXTHImGmdPXVmL0w1G5F4PrsFg6x1AZh6qZhshm9Hy8YCBJfYAbe/s1600/shocking+anorexic+case.jpg" height="320" width="202" /></a>Baumann says that it was during her second pregnancy
when she gained a measly 3 pounds that she saw her anorexia worsen. She
began over-exercising to try and quell her growing belly. An hour and a
half of cardio -- <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">running</span>, biking
and even volleyball -- was typical for her up until she gave birth.
Even when Baumann almost miscarried Whitney at the beginning of her
pregnancy, cutting out exercise and increasing her daily caloric intake was not an option.<br />
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Finally
suffering from chest pain, Baumann went to the emergency room and after
doctors told her that her organs were failing, checked into an
in-patient treatment center in Arizona. Today, Baumann maintains a
healthy weight and lifestyle and is proud that both her daughters live
similarly healthy lives.
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ReproductiveHealth/story?id=7768530&page=2#.TsF9LMNQik" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link 1</a> | <a href="http://www.momlogic.com/2009/06/pregorexia_starving_for_two.phps" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link 2</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The model who bared it all in a controversial campaigned called “No Anorexia”</h2>
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Many of you will remember Isabelle Caro, the brave model who bared all to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">show</span>
the true horror of anorexia. Isabelle lost her eating disorder battle
on November 2010 at age 28 after being treated for an acute respiratory
illness. Isabelle appeared in posters for an anti-anorexia campaign in
2007, but the ads were banned in several countries. It was not clear
why it took so long for her death to be made public. The anti-anorexia
campaign came amid a debate among fashion circles on the use of
“ultra-skinny” models on the catwalk.<br />
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Caro herself suffered from
severe anorexia nervosa since the age of 13. The model told CBS News in
2007 that she agreed to pose for the campaign because "I said if I can
put my years of suffering to good use then it will not have been
pointless. ... I know it's a shocking photo, and I want it to shock.
It's really a warning that it is a serious illness."<br />
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The model, who was 5ft 4in tall (1.65m) at the time of the poster campaign, reportedly weighed 32kg (five <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">stones</span>).
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://wearetherealdeal.com/2010/12/30/no-anorexia-model-isabelle-caro-dies-at-age-28/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The woman who beat anorexia to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother</h2>
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Her frame was so skeletal that doctors warned Hayley Wilde she was just
over a week away from death. But three years on, after an eight-year
battle against anorexia, she has bounced back in the most emphatic
fashion by giving birth to a boy. Her son Michael was born weighing a
healthy 7lb 14oz, something that would have been unthinkable when she
was at her lowest ebb.<br />
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She had been fighting the condition since
she was 11. Her 5ft 7in frame was down to 5st 1oz, and doctors warned
she could have ten days left to live if she did not start to put weight
on. She was hospitalized for months on end and fed through a tube. Her
hair started to fall out and her periods stopped for four years. But
expert medical help and the support of her parents saw her pull back
from the brink, and finally she and her partner were thrilled to
discover she was pregnant.
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-552789/Woman-beats-anorexia-birth--years-given-10-days-live.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The bride-to-be who had to beat anorexia to fit two-size-too-big wedding dress her fiancé bought her</h2>
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Anorexic bride-to-be Kate Puncher overcame her disorder after her fiancé bought her a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">wedding dress</span>
two sizes too big and told her to put on weight to fit it. The ex-model
developed the condition after an ex-boyfriend threatened to break up
with her if she put on weight, she claimed. She hit 25kg (4st) at one
stage, surviving on nothing but mints and using laxatives.<br />
She was
told the damage done to her body meant she would never be able to have
children. But when she became engaged to firefighter Barry, 30, he told
her to start eating or there would be no wedding. <br />
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'The thought of putting on weight was terrifying but I was prepared to do anything to be Barry's wife,' the 31-year-old said. <br />
She
began eating three meals a day to put 20kg (3st) on her then 30kg (4st
9lb) frame and was even too big for her dress at the final fitting. The
couple, from Glasgow, married in Cuba in 2009 and Mrs Puncher has since
given birth to a daughter.
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/879013-anorexic-bride-to-be-was-told-to-get-big-or-forget-her-big-day#ixzz1diWzBeO8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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The Uruguayan sister models who both died of anorexia 6 months apart</h2>
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The fashion world reeled over the death of Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan model
– just six months after her model sister, Luisel Ramos, 22, died
shortly after stepping off a runway during a fashion show in Montevideo.
The sisters were supposed to appear alongside each other on the catwalk
the night Luisel died, but she collapsed before the show's finale. Miss
Eliana, 18, was found dead in her home in Montevideo, the capital of
Uruguay, on Tuesday. While no medical report was immediately released
after Eliana's death, Judge Roberto Timbal says that she died of a heart
attack.
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Modeling scouts are recruiting at eating disorder clinics. We aren't making this up.
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Modeling scouts have been gathering outside of Sweden’s largest
eating disorder clinic, trying to lure critically thin patients onto the
runway.</div>
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Let me type that again, with annotations. Modeling scouts—known for<a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell"> weighing young girls in public </a>like cattle and <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell">targeting down-and-out families</a>,
but perhaps not for exploiting the life-threatening delusions of sick
teenagers—were gathering—in the plural, so more than one person thought
this was okay—outside of Sweden’s largest <i>eating disorder clinic</i>.
They were there to<a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell"> recruit anorexic girls to their agencies</a>, because
where else would you search for perilously skinny young women who are
unlikely to put on weight? Anna-Maria af Sandeberg, chief doctor at the
1,700-bed Stockholm Center for <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell">Eating Disorders</a>, told the <i><a href="http://www.metro.se/" target="_blank">Metro newspaper</a></i>,
“People have stood outside our clinic and tried to pick up our girls
because they know they are very thin.” “It sends the wrong signals,” she
added.</div>
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<i>The Local </i>reports that the clinic had to change when and where patients could take their daily walks around the grounds because <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/47404/20130418/#.UXSHwaJg8i0" target="_blank">girls kept getting approached</a>.
One 14-year-old was handed a business card; an agent interviewed
another girl who was so emaciated that she had been confined to a
wheelchair. When care coordinator Christina Lillman-Ringborg tried to
explain to the scouts that her charges “suffered from a serious
illness,” the article<i> </i>continues, quoting Lillman-Ringborg,
“They claimed that they approach healthy, normally slim young people and
that they never urge anyone to lose weight; that’s how they defended
themselves.”<br />
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A remedial business ethics lesson: If you’re looking for “healthy,
normally slim young people,” you may not want to start at a medical
center designed to treat women whose low weights have resulted in their
hospitalization. On the other hand, if you’re committed to “never
[urging] anyone to lose weight,” collecting a stable of anorexic models
is probably a good move. The eating disorder will do all the urging for
you!</div>
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Of course, scouts are probably well aware of this, since <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell" target="">up to 40 percent of models suffer from some kind of eating disorder</a><a href="http://./">.</a>
What’s shocking about the story is not so much what it reveals about
definitions of beauty in the fashion industry—although the notion that
agents are raiding hospitals for exemplars of contemporary loveliness is
pretty disturbing—but how little people in the business seem to care
about the health of the women who are making them rich. Or, indeed, of
women in general. One-fifth of girls and women diagnosed with anorexia <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell">die a premature death</a>. Sixty to 70 percent <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell" target="">never fully get better</a>.
Can we even imagine how confusing and harmful it might be for an eating
disordered teenager, trying to recover, to hear praise for her
rail-thin frame? To hear that it might propel her into a glamorous
career? Heartless, perverse, exploitative crap like that makes the world
a more toxic place for all of us. So, Stockholm Center patients, if
you’re reading this, sip a milkshake, <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion-17/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell">enjoy your body as it returns to health</a>, ignore those monsters outside. They wouldn’t know beauty if it
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Flying around the internet over the last 24 hours is a story in <a href="http://plus-model-mag.com/2012/01/plus-size-bodies-what-is-wrong-with-them-anyway/" target="_hplink"><i>PLUS Model Magazine</i></a> that various news outlets have called<a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/"> "</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_hplink">shocking</a>," "<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_hplink">controversial</a>," "<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_hplink">scary</a>" and "<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_hplink">provocative</a>."<br />
Why are they so stunned? According to the coverage, it's not the fact
that the article includes a photo spread of the Russian plus size model
Katya Zharkova posing nude or that in some of the photos she is shown
embracing an emaciated-looking woman, also nude. (After all, <a href="http://www.styleite.com/media/vogue-italia-plus-sized-spread-photos/?pid=6326#image" target="_hplink">Italian <i>Vogue</i>'s June 2011 </a>issue already went there, minus the thin woman.) <br />
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What apparently floored them are the article's claims that the
average fashion model weighs 23 percent less than the average woman and
that "most runway models meet the <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" target="_hplink">Body Mass Index </a>physical criteria for Anorexia."<br />
PLUS Model Magazine offered no supporting data for these claims --
according to ABC, the magazine, published by the Washington State based
publisher <a href="http://www.viethrive.com/Pages/General/about.html" target="_hplink">Venus Imaging Education, LLC</a>, found these stats <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/most-models-meet-criteria-for-anorexia-size-6-is-plus-size-magazine/" target="_hplink">through its own research</a> -- and as Styleite points out, "the <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" target="_hplink">criteria for anorexia</a> involves more than just a specific BMI" -- according to the the <i>New York Times</i> Health Guide, other symptoms include <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" target="_hplink">distorted body image</a> and an extreme, unrealistic fear of gaining weight. <br />
<a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="anorexic models 05 in Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models" src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/08/anorexic-models/anorexic-models-05.jpg" height="152" title="Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models" width="200" /></a>But this is one case in which we don't really need to see the
research to believe the claims, which echo what we already know. Can
anyone look at runway models, then look at the women they know and think
that the models weigh anything near what the non-models do? Our most
prominent news organizations have reported and remarked on the <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" target="_hplink">extreme thinness of models</a>
and its potential impact. Every day we encounter zillions of images
that bear witness to the idealization of women who could seriously
benefit from a sandwich. We've probably to some degree become
desensitized to it, or think we have, which is perhaps why we don't do
more to rectify the situation. We live in a culture that exalts women
who look like they don't allow themselves food, whose work encourages
them to be seen and not heard. <br />
<a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="anorexic models 01 in Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/08/anorexic-models/anorexic-models-01.jpg" height="200" title="Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models" width="138" /></a>The message of most advertising is that the sick-looking women
actually look well, and that they are more special than the well people
who aren't in the photos and on the catwalks (read: you). And on too
many occasions to account, we have no choice but to support this
strategy. Is there a clothing company that doesn't employ models? Oh,
right, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpeterman.com%2F&ei=LpgQT6HxJuH30gGA1cyzAw&usg=AFQjCNEkKLC_Oacez5u-f4oc6BpXhHvmRA" target="_hplink">J. Peterman</a>. We can all just wear flannel night gowns and sassy shirtwaist dresses from now on. <br />
<a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="anorexic models 02 in Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/08/anorexic-models/anorexic-models-02.jpg" height="200" title="Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models" width="138" /></a>The one time anyone protested the status quo in any meaningful way
was in 2006 when, in the wake of a models' anorexia-related death, Spain
passed a law <a href="http://jwcey.com/celebrity-fashion/skinny-anorexic-models-dying-on-stage-what-the-hell/" target="_hplink">requiring runway models to have BMI's over 18</a>
to walk in Spanish fashion shows. (According to the NIH, it's not
possible to have a BMI under 19 and be at a normal weight.
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/tools.htm) A <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/04/breaking_france_is_thisclose_t_1.html" target="_hplink">similar bill</a>
made it through the lower house of the French legislature in 2008, but
no legislation followed in the U.S. or elsewhere in Western Europe. What
could have started a movement became this thing they do in Spain.<br />
Really, the only thing new or "shocking" about this story's message
is that it got people's attention. I could be wrong, but I think the
naked girl-on-girl action probably had something to do with it.<br />
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<i>If you or someone you know is struggling with eating issues, call the National Eating Disorder Association's <a href="http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-help-today/" target="_hplink">Information and Referral Hotline</a> at 800.931.2237. In case of a medical emergency, first call 911.</i><br />
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