Lifesize Models: Will They Last?

I am finally going to do my Fall 2010 shows review. For those of you that are fashion savvy you'll know that it's a bit belated, but relax, I just didn't want to write about Fall clothes when we were all getting so jazzed about the weather turning warmer. And every girl every where is worrying about how can I get my legs tan without being orange or getting cancer?

As it is nearly June, I thought, why not give them a taste of what's to come? Well, if there is one trend that was among the most oohed and aaahed over this last fashion show cycle was Marc Jacobs' and Miuccia Prada's use of real life women as models - with - gasp - curves - and boobs!

While Elle MacPherson is a lovely 'real' lady let's hold our collective ooh's and ahh's over her revolutionary appearance on the runway of Louis V. and examine the truth behind this revolutionary push for real bodies and real women. 

Number one: For everyone that is a real woman; you know that Elle MacPherson is not one of you. Sorry, but her measurements are not standard nor average. She is/was a super model. While it is really nice to see a woman and not a pre-pubescent, skeletor of a girl let's not get our panties in a twist...

Number two: For anyone and everyone who knows anything about fashion then you know about the horrible death of the model who died of anorexia in Milan several years ago and the way that the fashion world tried to implement a 'fix it'  it by employing rules and helpful resources for models on the verge of starvation. While this is all valiant, until it's embraced by the rest of the fashion world it is merely topical.

Number three: Fashion is all about novelty and whimsy and generally the next big thing. As people start focusing on saving money and investing in items that will last more than just one season - especially in the wake of the worst recession since the Depression - fashion is losing some of it's bread and butter customers. Therefore, the novelty has to come from not the clothes, but from ta-da, the women wearing them. Not to be a complete skeptic, but I am sure that designers hoped that this use of 'real' models was not so much a needed wake up call in the fashion world, but rather a ploy to get women to buy, buy, buy.  I just hope that women were so inclined to buy, so that this thing called models that are alive sticks around. 

Feeling much better after getting that off my chest. Thanks for listening.