Why Fashion Loves The Super-Thin Models?

Who should be blamed when fashion loves the super-thin models? Why does the use of skinny models in the modeling industry continue to be a desirable ideal?

Super-thin girls appeal to designers because they don't upstage the clothes. When models are too-thin, they do not have big boobs that may distract the attention of the audience. As thin models strut on the catwalk, the audience no longer notice their shapes or sizes. Instead, they are all-eyes on the cut, the silhouette, the concept, the fabric, and the trendiness of the clothes that the thin models are wearing.

Modeling for clothes on the catwalk or in magazines, is in fact, interpreted as a work of art. However for fashion fanatics, the constant modeling of clothes by super thin models may damage their self-esteem. Unlike fashion editors and stylists who usually look at modeling as a fantasy or as an art, the audience can interpret the use of super-thin models as a despairing fact they will not be good in the clothes their fitting because they are fat.

A fashion author thus concluded, “...Just as the clothes will trickle down to the high street, so does the message that being skinny is a physical ideal. And that is where the fashion industry needs to look beyond the unhealthy images to which it has become immune, and develop a wider perspective on the social implications of the fantasies it presents. It might be art, but life often imitates art.”