Post by The Big Daddy C-Master on Mar 11, 2015 4:14:36 GMT -5
Get ready to see fatties, transgenders and everything else in your favorite ads. Don't mind seeing hot Asains but this diversity crap is annoying.
www.yahoo.com/style/its-not-your-imagination-the-modeling-industry-113168855653.html
Myla Dalbesio. Photo: Jody Rogac for Yahoo Style
When it comes to representing society’s diverse spectrum of beauty, the modeling industry hasn’t exactly gotten it right. For a long time, it's promoted the negative ideal that very thin, white teenage girls epitomize high-end beauty," says Sara Ziff, former model and founder of the Model Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating safe and fair working conditions. “Implicit in this message is that fuller figured, non-white, grown women are incompatible with a high-end look.”
That, however, might finally be changing. Some of the industry’s most exciting new faces are black (Aya Jones), biracial (Binx Walton), Asian (Dylan Xue), transgendered (Andrej Pejic), and decidedly not a size 0 (Ashley Graham). Sports Illustrated featured their first plus-size woman, model Robin Lawley, while Crystal Renn, Myla Dalbesio and Kate Upton—part of the influx of “in-between size” models—have found mainstream and high-fashion success. The most successful models (Gisele, Adriana Lima, Natalia Vodianova) working today are above the age of 30; in 2014, the average age of Forbes’ richest list was 31.5, five years older than it was in 2007 (26.5). And, according to The Fashion Spot’s seasonal diversity report, the fall 2015 runways featured more women of color than ever before (though still not nearly enough.) After years of getting called out by the media—for being racist, sizeist and ageist—has the modeling industry finally started listening?
"I think the tide is shifting, albeit slowly, in the right direction," said casting director Julia Samersova, who’s worked with everyone from J.Crew to Jimmy Choo.
These are not leaps and bounds, but baby steps. Runway models are still usually young and skinny. And, unfortunately, they’re still mostly white. As The Fashion Spot’s diversity report reveals, 77% of models that walked the runways at New York Fashion Week were white (though that’s down from 80% last season). So, while the figure is nothing to brag about, it’s an improvement. ”Although we still have a ways to go, at least we’re seeing incremental change in terms of increased racial diversity,” said Ziff.
www.yahoo.com/style/its-not-your-imagination-the-modeling-industry-113168855653.html
Myla Dalbesio. Photo: Jody Rogac for Yahoo Style
When it comes to representing society’s diverse spectrum of beauty, the modeling industry hasn’t exactly gotten it right. For a long time, it's promoted the negative ideal that very thin, white teenage girls epitomize high-end beauty," says Sara Ziff, former model and founder of the Model Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating safe and fair working conditions. “Implicit in this message is that fuller figured, non-white, grown women are incompatible with a high-end look.”
That, however, might finally be changing. Some of the industry’s most exciting new faces are black (Aya Jones), biracial (Binx Walton), Asian (Dylan Xue), transgendered (Andrej Pejic), and decidedly not a size 0 (Ashley Graham). Sports Illustrated featured their first plus-size woman, model Robin Lawley, while Crystal Renn, Myla Dalbesio and Kate Upton—part of the influx of “in-between size” models—have found mainstream and high-fashion success. The most successful models (Gisele, Adriana Lima, Natalia Vodianova) working today are above the age of 30; in 2014, the average age of Forbes’ richest list was 31.5, five years older than it was in 2007 (26.5). And, according to The Fashion Spot’s seasonal diversity report, the fall 2015 runways featured more women of color than ever before (though still not nearly enough.) After years of getting called out by the media—for being racist, sizeist and ageist—has the modeling industry finally started listening?
"I think the tide is shifting, albeit slowly, in the right direction," said casting director Julia Samersova, who’s worked with everyone from J.Crew to Jimmy Choo.
These are not leaps and bounds, but baby steps. Runway models are still usually young and skinny. And, unfortunately, they’re still mostly white. As The Fashion Spot’s diversity report reveals, 77% of models that walked the runways at New York Fashion Week were white (though that’s down from 80% last season). So, while the figure is nothing to brag about, it’s an improvement. ”Although we still have a ways to go, at least we’re seeing incremental change in terms of increased racial diversity,” said Ziff.
