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The skinny model debate targets mannequins
Written by Daniel P Dykes
The 'skinny model' debate, a largely political opportunity running the risk of ensuring that nobody is happy with their own body image, has reach a new level of stupidity in Spain.
It has been announced that some stores in the country will soon start replacing their mannequins with 'upsized' versions, as not to give off the wrong impression.
This leaves us wondering - how many people, bar the late Helmut Newton, have ever looked at mannequin for anything bar the clothes? Are we really to believe that people's health is suffering as a result of the existence of waif thin models?
Written: 16th March 2007 at 16.14
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Written by Daniel P Dykes.
Traditionalist and futurist are two of the labels applied to Daniel, but he sees the two as being in perfect balance. With a keen eye on the future and his finger on the pulse he helps keep fashionisers everywhere ahead in the fashion stakes as Fashionising.com's lead fashion trend analyst. Believing that the late-2000s credit crisis will be ultimately good for fashion, Daniel sees a future for fashion where grounded in traditional values; where luxury fashion again comes to represent quality production as opposed to being solely label driven.
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