The world is alive with Fashion Weeks. From London to Milan to New York, designers, spectators and critics are lining runways populated with models. This year, a handful of “curvy” models have been added to a handful of shows, and report Laurie Penny thinks the fanfare is premature.
“In this context, getting excited about the ‘return’ of curves is just one more way of obsessively scrutinizing women’s bodies, fetishising female flesh and particularly female fat as somehow shock, abnormal, edgy. Female fat is not edgy. It’s not an unusual fashion trend. It’s everyday reality for over three billion human beings on this planet.” - Source: New Statesman
Laurie is particularly sensitive to how women are portrayed, because she struggled with an eating disorder for five years. She overcame it with the help of friends, family and therapy, but is still acutely aware of how narrowly “beauty” is defined in the fashion industry. “Curves” aren’t a victory, they’re normal. And they, and the women who have them, should be treated that way.
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