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The high fashion modeling industry’s so neurotic.
I don’t care for her body type, but come on! I thought you were looking for models, not hangers!
Ha! Too fat!?? Not that HK is anywhere close to being overweight, but there is enormous pressure for models to be emaciated, not thin, but emaciated. Huge difference! I’m sure that she is very aware of the intense scrutiny of critics in the fashion world, and not bothered by it in the least. Heidi you are gorgeous and absolutely stunning!!
Hangers are exactly what the high fashion modelling industry is looking for. It’s far easier to design clothes for a hanger than for a real woman with curves. Designers have never denied that- in fact I’ve heard it said in those exact words in several runway show interviews. I’d take it as a compliment if I was told I was too fat (which I definitely am!)
In the fashion industry yes, as hard as it is to believe for some she is considered “fat”. Fashion desingers want hangers they don’t want anybody shape, no breast, no hips, no ass. I guess they think clothes look better that way. If you have picked up a Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, whatever you’ll see. Somebody suggested designers should just use boys in wigs and makeup beacuse its the same thing.
Wouldn’t be the first time Sauron, Shakespeare did it…
p.s. mind you, not because he wanted to from an aesthetic perspective but because that was the rule of the day.
How did I know that the poster-corpse for gastric-bypasses would stick his oar in? Stick to grooming your ponytail Lagerfeld.
Mairead: Agreed. And the man wears fishnet gloves. That fact, alone, renders anything he has to say useless.
You know, I have pretty high standards for my body, and I have a tendency to be harsh in my criticism, but even I find Heidi Klum to be quite desireable. The designers who are saying any different are obviously senile and out of touch. There is nothing beautiful about a woman who hasn’t enough muscle to even propel her body from one room to the next. And that’s some truth! I would kill to be as toned and curvy as Heidi! And in fact, I kill myself every day tryin’!
If that’s fat, then I’m a flying Dutchman.
Who decided that designer clothes look best on skinny women, anyway? They don’t! You need some boobs, at least. They don’t even have to be big, they just exist! I swear, I’ve watched runway shows on the Style channel where an emaciated model is wearing a low-cut top or dress, and they don’t even bother to blur it when there’s a “nip slip,” because there really isn’t much to see in the first place.
“Poster-corpse for gastric bypass”. Love it! He seems like a truly awful human being, a cold, exacting, megalomaniac. If I could, I’d plaster his neighborhood with fatty pics of him from a few years ago!
And THIS is why I despise the modeling industry and ANYONE involved with it.
If she’s too fat to model, I’m too fat to live.
But I’m glorious. And so is Heidi!!! She’s stunning!
The second that a model shows any sign that she is female- the gays and the anorexic who rule the fashion industry call foul.
The truth is, that there’s a huge problem when the body (role) models are so thin and tall- that they can resemble boys.
They don’t like the feminine curves that are beautiful and they want women to starve themselves, because it looks masculine.
It’s time fashion will allow women to look like women.
And let’s face it, as long as regular women look to the fashion industry and/or models as the “ideal” of what a woman should look like, this is never going to go away or get better.
It’s up to the average woman who buy Cosmo and Vogue to say: If designers refuse to design clothes for women who look like women, or magazines refuse to show them in their magazines, I have no interest in this.
While huaute coture may be purchased by the rich, magazines and popularity are powered by the masses!!
Yeah, in the fashion runway world she is fat. I can see it in her bum and legs. That’s too bad because in real-life off the runway she is way slimmer than the average sized 14 North American woman.
Absolutely crazy! What do they want a woman to look like, really? A 12 year old boy with boobs? Seems to me that that’s the image they’re shooting for!
Who makes these decisions, anyway?
Designers design for women. Narciso Rodriguez does beautiful clothes as does Micheal Kors, just off the top of my head, that work for women with very feminine shapes.
The point of a model is to be a walking hangar. She isn’t supposed to be a representation of how the clothes would look on your average size woman. It’s supposed to show the clothes in terms of how it’s cut, the fabric and the general shape. You are supposed to imagine the clothes on your customers, like you would if you saw the clothes on a plastic hangar.
It isn’t an “ideal” body type. It isn’t “ideal” beauty. Models aren’t even supposed to be “beautiful”, runway models anyway. Most girls who do runway are weird-looking or bland so that you look at the clothes and not at the girl.
The only models who are supposed to be sexually appealing are bathing suit models and lingerie models. The Victoria’s Secret girls all have boobs and butts. They are thin, but not grossly so because they are supposed to look healthy and sexy as they are posing nearly nude.
No one in the fashion industry thinks that “regular” women should look at runway models and want to be or look like them.
Women need to stop blaming everything around them for their poor self-esteem and look within.
Oh please. If you are a good designer, the clothes should look best ON A WOMAN (eg who they are designed for). not a flat piece of nothing… Really!! what a load of crud. And I really don’t buy that Karl L doesn’t know who Klum is… She’s a VS model for GS!
I think the designer has just made himself look very stupid.
NotBlonde, please don’t even get me started on my grudge against the softcore porn Victoria’s Secret bullocks.
And really, so long as men continue to subscribe to the lingerie model demographic as a basis for comparison in terms of physical beauty, expect women to remain insecure. Women get all the blame for letting the media affect their self-image, but did you ever think that maybe women feel ugly or “not good enough” due to the fact that men generally compare them to women in the media?
In my opinion, VS is as corrupt as high fashion, just in a different way.
I digress.
But I agree with pretty much everyone else and also thought that actually looking *good* in the clothes that’s being modelled is meant to sell the clothing. Who wants to buy something that looks too big (or too small for that matter) on the person wearing them?
As far as Heidi Klum is concerned, it looks like her outfits look like they aren’t ill fitting and she isn’t overweight, so I don’t really get what Wolfgang Joop is on about in his delusional mind.
Fashion always was a superficial field, but it used to have artistic integrity. It’s gone now. In my opinion, it’s just a big joke, it’s a big game to see who can shrink down to the smallest clothing size, because apparently just fitting into the outfits and simply being a healthy weight isn’t good enough for the high fashion pedants anymore.
If they think that excess cellulite, skin, or even a *minscule* role of fat appearing when these women sit down is that “obscene” that it’s distracting, their clothes mustn’t be that great in the first place, and if they want to talk about distracting and obscene, they really need to take a longer glimpsed at their precious models, even if not having eating disorders, with their hipbones sticking out at a 90 degree angle.
The funning thing is that Heidi herself has claimed publicly that she doesn’t fit into most designer clothes and hasn’t modelled high fashion when there had been the Iman vs. Heidi controversy…
It’s not just about having too much flesh though: Heidi’s frame doesn’t fit the higher fashion’s needs and requests.
You can blame the industry as much as you want but the Klum is very much aware of this and has no problem at all not only admitting to it but understanding it.
Funny obviously, not “funning”.
I need my morning coffee.
Wow SHE’S fat? These designers need to stop employing anorexics to model their clothes.
@Bellatrix – agree 100% with your post.
Who cares what clothes look like on hangers? I’ve never waited patiently for the hanger in front of me to purchase clothing in any department store, no matter how high class the store pretended to be. Yes, women who resembled hangers were buying, but they were easily brushed aside, and even tossed in a bin, due to being HANGERS.
Whatever happened to Azzedine(sp?) Alia? He made beautiful dresses for women with curves.
Aside from the ethical issues raised re: expecting young girls to starve for fashion’s sake…
What are a designers’s clothes supposed to look like on the woman he or she envisions wearing them? Seems like that would be the relevant question, if the designer is actually presenting clothes in hopes of selling them.
I for one would much prefer to see clothes modeled on a thin, toned, fit & attractive woman. NOT a skeleton. I do see how very large breasts or hips would be distracting – for me, a classic female body modeling clothes shows how they ought to look on me, which is what I want to know!
p.s. I’m not saying I’m always in such great shape…I’m saying it’s what I OUGHT to look like 🙂
A decent and intelligent man will realize that the Victoria’s Secret girls don’t look like what they look like in the catalogs and also realize that there are only so many for a reason.
If you are dating a man who is comparing you to a nearly 6 foot tall thin model then you need to dump him because it’s HIS problem not yours.
Women can be really really stupid some times and that is one of them. The only time I feel you can be insecure about your looks is when someone directly tells you something like, “You’re ugly” or “You’re fat” or other such things. Then you eliminate that person from your life and move the f**k on.
The fashion industry is a whole other sector of society that has nothing to do with “regular” women. No woman there is under 5’7″. Most women have no breasts or B-cup at the most. Most have very small hips and broad shoulders and big feet.
The fashion industry doesn’t present these women as “ideal” beauty at all. The present the CLOTHES on women who you aren’t really supposed to look at. The models make the clothes look like the designer wants them to look.
To sum up: Stop blaming the “media”, the “fashion industry”, models, actresses, and celebrities for your self-esteem problems. If you are with a man who wants a celebrity/model look-a-like, either change yourself (not recommended) or dump his ass because he isn’t worth your time.
Baho : Azzedine Alaïa is just fine, thank you very much. 😀 Huuuge designer with an amazing and still rising success. His shoes are getting a lot more attention than his clothes lately. Everybody seems to love his shoes (and Victoria Beckham was one of the first international celebrities to claim and wear them).
His company got owned by Prada but he bought it back just a few years ago… You can admire his collections in his fashion gallery in Paris.
I can only hail NotBlonde’s comment : fashion is not aspiring to make the perfect woman. I’m saddened to see that this industry is pointed to as being the main cause for women’s health/weight troubles.
She’s not too fat, your designs are too fugly.
NotBlonde
The somewhat amusing puzzle is WHY women gravitate towards men like that to begin with.
I’m sure in accordance to possessing some sense of entitlement for a woman that looks like a model, he may have some attractive qualities. However with a sense of primitive, superficial entitlement such as that. You’d think just about anyone with half a brain and a sense of self respect would drop them like a bad habit.
That isn’t the case however.
Thus, it’s a 50/50 situation I believe, in which women find themselves attracted to douchebags, who in turn make them feel like shit.
Neither seems to want to break the cycle.
loldongs: It is truly an interesting conundrum.
You’re right, it’s totally my fault, and you’re totally better than me for NOT having body image issues since you were eight years old.
Whatever.
that’s ridonkulous; Heidi is forever flawless
@ Joe: Could not agree more.
It’s time for them to string up some wires and roll their clothes down the runway on the hangers – forget the models… Women will be better off without the poor images to try to aspire to anyway. Our little girls deserve better role models. It’s getting absurd.
I give anything to have a body like Heidi Klum. The fashion industry is run by a bunch of mentally ill people with eating disorders. Lagerfeld is an arrogant and ugly twit.
ChristinaX: I don’t know if you are being serious but if you are…you seriously need to get over yourself.
An 8 year old with body image issues? Um…what?
The first time I looked in the mirror and thought I was fat, I was 5…my belly stuck out and I thought that was bad.
So yes little kids can have body image issues, especially when their parents do. My mom was on a diet, well, always, and my dad insulted her figure and would say at the dinner table that thin people knew how to control themselves.
A little OT, but just noting to NotBlonde that yes body image issues CAN be rooted in your experiences as a small child.
lunachick: You actually proved my point. Your parents were the people who caused you to have body image issues, not the “media” or “celebrities” or “the fashion industry”.
NotBlonde – lol – guess I did!
I do think when you have deep-rooted body image issues, i.e. parents (unintentionally I’m sure) teach a child that thin = good person worthy of respect and fat = weak and out-of-control, it’s much easier to be influenced by the media, fashion industry, etc. once you reach adolescence.
My mom worried about my weight once I got around 12 yrs. old and my upward growth slowed. I’m 5’7″ now and was 5’6″ @ 12. She never said anything, bless her heart, but she went to great pains to make sure we only had healthy, filling, meals with low fat desserts, like Jello with fruit, Ice Milk (instead of ice cream), etc. We were allowed one candy bar a day and soft drinks were severely limited. She worked 12 hours a day yet managed to look out for our health as a matter of course. The 4 basic food groups were part of our lives growing up and they still are today. Being of the dinosaur age, she also stressed things like women’s rights, education, and how important it was to not be a sex object but to have real substance. How we’ve come so far backwards is beyond me.
If Heidi is too fat to model, then who’ll wear the damned clothes? Wolfgang Joop needs to have his head examined. It’s a shame that a small percentage of gay fashion designers happen to be misogynistic bastards.
Seems to me WJ said that to get attention. Anyone in their right mind know that HK is not fat. She borders on skinny in my mind.
I say let the fashion industry implode on itself. Their high prices, snotty attitudes, and gaunt models will become more and more passe as the years pass. Honestly, if I worked in the fashion industry, I would be embarrassed to admit it. Superfluous garbage.
The thing is, Heidi Klum is a Victoria’s Secret model; someone who needs to have curves and a more womanly figure. There was an interview in Seventeen Magazine a few years with some of VS’s younger, superstars and they were all between a size 2 and a size 6. Heidi Klum is a 35 year-old mother of 3, and can still walk a Victoria’s Secret runway half-naked and kick ass. She is a stunning woman, who not only models, but has her own production company and TV show. She’s clearly not just your average supermodel, and she doesn’t need to be. She’s Heidi Klum. Karl Lagerfeld should take his head out of his ass and know who one of the most timeless supermodels in the world is. And whoever this Wolfgang Joop is should shut his mouth because no one has ever heard of him, whereas Heidi Klum is a household name.
She DOES indeed look a bit round. At this point she is operating on name-recognition alone. She needs to step down before she becomes known as washed-up has-been. Plus, there are many young models looking for work that could fill the gap very well.
If Heidi Klum is considered fat then all the Hollywood actresses are borderline obese! That is just a ridiculous statement. She probably has a bodyfat percentage of 19%.