Please Boycott the women's High Fashion clothing industry for promoting anorexia

Thier models are anorexic. It is unhealthy and leads to osteoporosis, calcium loss in bone's.

Network tv and Ad's in media directed at women promote anorexia too.

Thank you

 

I understand your concern and I share it. But I don't think you can make a blanket statement that all fashion models are anorexic. Anorexia nervosa doesn't just mean being thin. It's a pathological refusal to eat as a result of grotesquely distorted body image and can result in death. It is also associated with changes in brain structure and function.

I also don't quite understand how you can boycott the high fashion clothing industry, although this is probably just male ignorance on my part. Do you mean not buy the clothes? Aren't they like, extremely expensive? So who buys them, anyway? Hipforums members? I'm not trying to be flip ... I honestly don't know.

 

You get the fashion today because of high fashion, this is called the trickle down effect. The fashion industry will always be prevalent and strong even when retail is not doing so well.
As for skinny models, they are SUPPOSED to be skinny. They are models. Their job is to look beautiful and either wear or not wear any clothing depending on the ad or runway show. Runway girls have to be skinny, it is the best way for a viewer to see how the garment hangs off of the body. I know that is not what you want to hear but its true, designers can sell more pieces when it is worn by a slender woman.

 

It would be really cool if your method of boycotting this was a mass starve out.

 

Feminists are complaining that about 6 models starved themselves to death.

I don't think death or anorexic models are beautiful. High fashion models did not used to be Kate Moss's.

There are knits that cling to the body.

 

They sell Calvin Klein underwear in the men's department. A person could simply not buy it.

 

I don't think you're being fair when you try to fix the blame on the fashion industry for choices which are being made by individual women. Karen Carpenter suffered from anorexia, but nobody in their right mind would ever try to contend that the entertainment industry was responsible for her condition. Nobody's forcing these women to become fashion models. If they were being forcibly starved, then it would be a totally different story. If they were being kidnapped by the fashion industry against their will, then I would agree with you. If the fashion industry was using our money for the purpose of starving captive women, I would call for a criminal investigation of the fashion industry and not just a boycott. But as things stand, these women are adults, not children, and they are engaging in voluntary behavior.

 

A slim model said that she was told to lose weight in a few days.

The fashion industry only hires anorexic models. If you are not anorexic, you do not get hired. The fashion industry propagates it. :xmastree:

 

lol. i love the pics that show on your posts. they look very healthy.

 

Actually this is a myth, it goes by the designer. Look at a lot of them, especially for lingerie, those models are generally at least 5'10" and curvy. No one wants to see a skeleton waring a bra.

Also it's been done before in time. i.e. the most famous of them all Twiggy.

Fashion changes over time, in the later 70's and 80's bigger curvier women came back into the spotlight, then in the 90's the heroin chic look took over(probably because a lot of famous people, at least in music, were in fact doing heroin)

Goes for men too, in the 70's and 80's built guys with tons of body hair were in, then in the 90's it became built with no body hair, now the wire look with no body hair is in.

 

nothing like the feel of new channel dress....am i right?

 

id go for a skirt suit but to each their own

 

Any boycott I do would have little effect here.

 

I think this whole site is the wrong audience for "high fashion" unless your talking about weed

 

if I like the clothing, i'm gonna buy it.

 

May I please have a link?

Thanks in advance.

 

and really in the end, no one "promotes" anorexia... well, except those crazy pro-anas... but I don't really take them seriously anyway. Fashion is fashion.

 

I don't necessarily think the point on this forum is to boycott models for the choice the models have made to be extremely slender but the way that ads and the media influence women around the world that they have to be the same way.

 

It was Kate Moss who said "Nothing tastes as good as being skinny."

 

women ultimately choose to let these things influence. I can see the beauty of being lithe and slender but I still love my curves.
its all about personal responsibility. If every little picture or magazine article is gonna trigger you then to might as well go hide in a closet.