I don't want to bang on about anorexia like some bitter chubster, but I think something interesting is going on at the moment.

Designers favour tall, lean and very young girls to do catwalk which has been going on for a while. But what interests me is the reaction of the models when they leave their teenage years and hit maturity. Take Gemma Ward for instance, she went from this:

to this:

And received so much criticism she pretty much had to quit.

Now Coco Rocha is the next under criticism but at least she's hitting back. Her blog is worth a read http://ohsococo.blogspot.com

Hopefully with things being highlighted the industry are going to stop employing gangly 15 year old girl who haven't hit maturity yet, build them up to fame (and incidently becoming the thinspiration of young anorexics) and then calling them too fat when they hit 20. Whatever happened to the Naomi Campbell and Erin O'Connors? Naturally slim beautiful graceful [i]women[/i] who look great in clothes. I think there's going to be a real change in the next ten years. 

And hopefully there'll be some 'plus size' women thrown into the mix, but with well fitting clothing, not just ramming them into a sample size Mark Fast. I mean just look at this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1252621/London-Fashion-Week-Mark-Fa...

What do you reckon?

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Aha! My first posterous post.

Unfortunately, it's a little bit sad. Today an icon died. And although there is controversy surrounding why this raven haired cheeky-smiled young woman became an icon, she was iconic nonetheless. Purely by accident of course. Somehow the pretty secretary from Tennesse ended up being the perverted fantasy of thousands and cultivating a sexual revolution. Whilst I believe that to some extent these pictures represent a troubled girl with a difficult past being ripped off, there is something within that innocent but knowing smile and tiger print bikini even more important today than in the 50s. 

Eeeeveryone knows retro is in fashion. Dita Von Teese is making a mint, vintage shops and fashion fairs are rife and Katy Parry is jumping around in red lipstick and swing dresses. There's a reason for this, and that is the reaction (by women) to air-brushed, fake tanned, fake-boobed Lads Mag models. I don't believe that women dislike seeing naked models or provocative photography. Women much more than men, are prepared to celebrate and appreciate beauty within their gender, but, women are really fucking sick of un-obtainable, cartoon-like stick women with ridiculous breasts appearing everywhere. Over sexualised images fill the media, whever it's Tom Ford's new perfume advertisement or Zoo's 50 busty babes, people are starting to miss the cheekiness of cheesecake and the glamour of pin-up.

A naked body on it's own is not sexual. It's what you're doing with that naked body. Today's models tend to suck a finger or push their breasts up to another girls breasts, but 50's girls smiled and sat primly. They winked and spanked. They looked like they're having fun and that's what's missing from our society. Women are so plagued by their imperfections they never have fun any more!

Well, that and the lack of a corset trained waist and far too much junk food taking over the world.

RIP Miss Page.