Balenciaga should sue whomever actually green-lighted the Sportiletto, and should be grateful if Steve Madden's team actually made it seem desirable and copy-worthy.
@labeled: Jeez, those are some ugly shoes.
Also, what is happening with the Forever 21 lawsuits? They do the same thing-- copy designers blatantly, but I never heard what happened.
@Raised-byHeathens: Right? I particularly like this shot of them, also. What shoes don't look fan-fucking-tastic with gray wool tights? And, they're even worse than I thought - that's rubber, not leather. Jeebus, those're so fug they're kind of making my morning.
@labeled: She is wearing them with some type of track pant too. See the piping there on the leg? Is that like dressing up for sporting events? High fashion at the hockey game? They are awesomely fug.
I read "Jessica Simpson shows bikini line" as some sort of downstairs version of a nip slip that Perez Hilton would doodle about and make fun of mercilessly for months.
Unfortunately her swimwear line looks even less exciting.
Honestly, when I have bought Target Go stuff in the past, I just grab shit because I hate trying stuff on, and if it doesn't fit or I don't like it, I always check eBay before returning them. Because I like money.
"Did she fling her arms in the air, too, Vogue? Because limb amputation sounds almost as painful as reading that sentence!) "
*snerk* ILU just for this, Jenna.
@STICKSnSCONES: I've seen her in person and she is definitely not 5'10". Vogue is printing what's on her comp card but it's common for agencies to lie about models' heights, often by as much as three inches. 5'7" sounds right to me, FWIW.
@guesskeyair: Wow... they'll lie that much? That just doesn't seem like a good idea. If you send someone you said was 5'10" and that's what they want, but they get 5'7" why would you trust anything they say after that? I'm all for rounding up, but to the nearest 10th is a bit much.
Something that I will never understand from an intellectual standpoint is how designers, photographers, editors and stylists who have been working since the 80s/90s, maybe even before, can look at a woman built like Lara and dismiss her as being too big, when a mere 15 years ago, they were using women of her size routinely. The super-skinny craze is relatively new. So are these people so fickle, shallow and near-sighted that they are unaware of their own hypocrasy, or are they just plain stupid? Cindy Crafford, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer et al. were never as small as most models today, and actually, they were much older as well.
The fetishization of extreme skinniness and youth is, in my opinion, one of the more unsavory hallmarks of the aughts. And it isn't even limited to the fashion world. Actresses have drastically lost weight over the decade, musicians have been pressured to maintain a certain body-type, and the list goes on.
@Tchotchke: For me, it proves herd mentality exists everywhere.
And frankly, these designers are just fucking LAZY. I've said before that the clothes should fit the person, not the other way around.
The "person-fits-the-clothes" mentality is demeaning and unrealistic, and it allows designers the deluded luxury of believing their commodities are artistic first, and functional a distant second.
Yeesh. If we keep going in this same direction, in ten years we'll have 0.0001% of the population wearing nothing but Prada and Chanel, and the remaining 99.9999% in Old Navy.
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In some chipmunk-type voice? I imagine the voice would be key for the delivery!
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Also, what is happening with the Forever 21 lawsuits? They do the same thing-- copy designers blatantly, but I never heard what happened.
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Unfortunately her swimwear line looks even less exciting.
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Hmm. I was waiting on her Those Suckers line of nursing bras.
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*snerk* ILU just for this, Jenna.
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The fetishization of extreme skinniness and youth is, in my opinion, one of the more unsavory hallmarks of the aughts. And it isn't even limited to the fashion world. Actresses have drastically lost weight over the decade, musicians have been pressured to maintain a certain body-type, and the list goes on.
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And frankly, these designers are just fucking LAZY. I've said before that the clothes should fit the person, not the other way around.
The "person-fits-the-clothes" mentality is demeaning and unrealistic, and it allows designers the deluded luxury of believing their commodities are artistic first, and functional a distant second.
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