100% HERE FOR THIS
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Anonymous asked:
Do you think 'racism' in the modelling industry still exists/improving? Three asian models for VSFS is a first....
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I think maybe there are more models of colour getting recognition in the industry so in that way it’s improving but there’s still a long way to go. The fact that having just 3 Asian models in the Victoria’s Secret show (from a cast of 38) is seen as an accomplishment is kind of testament to that and also isn’t that progressive really when VS demonstrates (yes, they apologized but it still happened) cultural appropriation. I expect this ‘costume’ from ignorant teens at Halloween parties but for one of the most influential (lingerie) brands to do this is… well, racist. So yes, to answer your original question it 100% still exists. This is just one example of many.
Supermodels by Annie Leibovitz, 1999
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Anonymous asked:
why do all models have to be tall?
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Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the humans and the models. God created humans in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Then God said, “Let the models be tall,” and they were tall. God saw that the height was good, and he separated the models from the humans. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill Eastern Europe and Brazil and subdue them. Rule over the Versace runways and the billboards in Times Square and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
yes.
…off to battle…
“When I first started at this house, I told myself that it had closed in ‘68 a symbolic date of revolution, of rupture. I was 25 years old, I had a viewpoint, the future was not already the past… so I started a fire. The first collection was black, white and grey. I wanted to let them know that there was no joking at Balenciaga. It was very formatted, the models measured 1m 76 not one centimeter smaller. In order for the message to be strong - I needed an army.”
Nicolas Ghesquière to Elisabeth Quin on his initial aims for Balenciaga and his debut collection (Spring 1998), April 2007
reblogging myself because this is relevant
WOAH
Maybe the world really is coming to an end?
W November 2009
Aline Weber by Mel Bles for V Spain
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Anonymous asked:
How does couture work like, if i bought a dress from a couture house, would i be the ONLY one in the world? or do they make a few of the same dresses if someone requests it. also, is that the same for editorials because there were heaps of editorials for givenchy winter 2012 couture but they were all from different magazines, how does that work. thanks :)
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Haute couture is made-to-measure (that’s the point) so if you bought a dress then it would be one of a kind. There may be other people with the same style but couture is not mass-produced like ready-to-wear.
To buy couture you have to be invited in via wealth and connections. These clients spend a lot of money - sometimes buying dozens of pieces a season that have price tags of anywhere between 5k and 100k upwards. So their relationships with the houses can mean they request exclusivity on certain pieces or pay more to ensure that they are the only person wearing a certain Chanel couture dress to the royal wedding or whatever.
I assume using couture in editorial works in the same way that ready-to-wear does - stylists borrow samples and then return them.
London streetstyle Spring 2013
Anna Selezneva by Lachlan Bailey for Vogue Paris
The New York Times Style Magazine Winter 2012
Sama and Haya Abu Khadra
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Anonymous asked:
What happened to Lily Donaldson's career?
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Let’s see, what DID happen to Lily Donaldson’s career?
4 Dolce & Gabbana campaigns
2 Gucci campaigns
And let’s not forget her seven Burberry campaigns
Calvin Klein
TWENTY EIGHT VOGUE COVERS, including 2 Vogue Italia covers and 1 American Vogue cover
Flew into commercial work with the Victoria’s Secret show twice
and now, after modeling for 9 years during which time many from her generation have disappeared and retired, she proved how iconic she is by walking in the Olympics closing ceremony
