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The skinny model debate targets mannequins

Written by Daniel P Dykes.
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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?

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Late one Oxford night Daniel P Dykes set about creating a fashion publication that would go someway to being an arbiter on fashion as it appeals to the emerging power generations: those who don't remember a world without the Internet and for whom work plays second fiddle to pleasure. And so Fashionising.com was born as a publication for those who were focussed not just on fashion's trends, but on society's too, and how those trends could all go to heighten the art of living. Hence, Daniel sees a future where, for those young at heart, both fashion and style are grounded in traditional quality, but with a youthful, sensualised edge. Daniel is Fashionising.com's Editor in Chief and Chairman.