Every year during London fashion week there seems to be some sort of row about size. Last autumn a stylist famously stormed out after a designer chose to use ”normal” models. A couple of years before that then women's minister Tessa Jowell tired to get size zero models banned from the runway. She didn't succeed.
This year fashion week seems to have kicked off to a smoother start. Not that some people aren't trying to stir up some fuss. By some people I'm of course talking about the UK media. And according to The Daily Telegraph half of Britain's six-year-olds wish they were thinner. Interesting how the paper chose to write about the study as LFW kicked off
For some reason every year during fashion week newspapers start shouting ”you're OK no matter what size you are”, ”size doesn't matter”, ”the fashion industry is EVIL”, ”go and have a doughnut”. Strange. These are the same papers who during the rest of the year publish photos of skinny models with disproportionately large tits.
However, it's a bit quiet on the size zero front this year. Maybe all the skinniness stories got old? Maybe the models look healthier? There's a new fashion phenomenon to hate, love, analyse. This new target is none other than... ta daah... fashion bloggers. Apparently they steal all the front-row seats, copy each other's posts and are generally lazy and ungrateful. Brilliant.
I might be a bit biased here, but I'm hoping the bitch-slapping, seat-stealing, stealth-tweeting bloggers out there will get the respect they deserve. At least they might do some original reporting.
Photo via Swamibu.