By Mark La Monica
All the world heard in the days leading up to New York Fashion Week was how models are too thin. How they're sickly and projecting an unreal, unfair image to young girls.
Suggestive guidelines were put forth a month ago. The designers said all the right things.
Yet, there's been no evidence seen on the runways this week suggesting anything has or will be done about it.
Michael Kors danced around the topic during an interview backstage before his show, saying something has to be done about it and that someone should pick up a phone and call someone when it becomes a problem. On the other hand, he said, the runway is still all about the fantasy.
Maybe that works well with his "delicious dichotomy" theme for his Fall 2007 collection, but in the greater scheme of the issue at hand, it's rubbish.
Expecting a change overnight is unrealistic. Expecting designers to alter plans so close to their show is unexpected.
But, Carmen Marc Valvo has been outspoken about using healthy models and rumor has it he refused to use three models he'd worked with in the past for this season's collection. The show goes off around 1:30 p.m. today, so let's see if Valvo brings the beef.
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Mark- I am the mother of a teen who loves fashion. She reads your blogs and thinks you are brilliant. Her dream is to attend Fashion Week and I would like to make that happen for her for her 16th birthday. What are the chances that a girl from a small town in Michigan could have a positive experience? Can you give me some advice on how that could happen.
Thank you so.