@sarasasa: It's going to be like a reverse "Beauty and the Beast." You know, like, when he turns 21 and Belle says she loves him he turns from a beast to a man. Well, at 9:35 p.m. on December 27th, I'm going to transform, too. Behold the future...
It must be a book about the YOUNG "naturally" beautiful. I know models are generally young, but if he is using "ordinary" people you'd think that they could lay off the 18-26 malarky.
I love how it says without makeup "if possible." Like, try your hardest to scrape all that caked shit off your face but don't go too crazy. I mean nobody wants to see your pores or anything.
I want to see Noted Fashion Photographer Nigel Barker's reaction to me in a swimsuit.
I'm thinking screaming and vomiting, perhaps followed by the urge to scrub his eyeballs clean, and maybe even a "why, God, why?" and "she's smiling with her eyes AND her flab!!! NOOO!!!"
@andromache: "Right, okay, a thong bikini for you, this sexy one piece bikini for you, oooh err a tankini for you, and... errr, oh my, I think we still a full body swimsuit from our 1930's photoshoot last week, go see if it fits, okay?"
I would really like to begin a short woman militia. We will embrace our actual short stature. We will boycott high heels because, frankly, they hurt and they never actually stop hurting no matter how long one wears them. We will become grand supporters of rolling up the cuff of one's pants and standing on tiptoes to kiss, reach the second shelf, and wave hello to a person some distance away. We will not hang our heads when we hear, as we always do, "can I have all the short people come down front for the group photo?" Instead, we will revel in it. We will proudly shop in the children's section of stores. We will not be shamed when someone exclaims, "Oh my GOD, how small is your foot?!" We will no more be afraid of the "You must this tall to ride" signs at the fair. No, no, no we will embrace it all. We will go to the play parks attached to fast food chains simply because we can. We will hide comfortably in small spaces and always win hide-and-seek. We will find ingenious ways to get "up there". We will laugh each time our partner thinks that he or she has accidentally shrunk our clothes in the wash. We will refuse to shop at Petite Palace and other such stores. We will make friends with people who can sew. We will be a happy militia. Everyone who joins will receive a nice pair of flats and a trip to Oxford, UK where all the doors are still our size.
I don't find it offensive for the same reason I don't find cross dressers or any other kind of gender bending offensive. We used to say gender was fixed, remember? You were a boy or you were a girl. That's changing, and I understand why Tyra went with race this time around (remember the shoot where the girls dressed up to be drag kings?). With increased globalization, there's more mixing, more new combinations, and less stark lines between cultures. So, no, I don't have an issue with that episode.
@dj alicat: This is maybe me just drawing lines where there aren't any, but I think the difference between this and what ANTM (or more poignantly, Mad Men) did is the actual tone that they are painting people. This is a grayish, charcoal black that looks more alien than anything else. They are actually as black as the clothes and they aren't really playing into the "racial signifier" aspect of dark or light skin. I haven't seen the white shoot, but I imagine it was people literally being painted snow white, not just peachy-beige.
@lobsterswithmittens: That's how I feel about it also. And you're right about the white show too.
They also did a collection inspired by Tilda Swinton and all the models looked like her!
They are just genius fashion designers who are artists too.
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I'm thinking screaming and vomiting, perhaps followed by the urge to scrub his eyeballs clean, and maybe even a "why, God, why?" and "she's smiling with her eyes AND her flab!!! NOOO!!!"
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Coffee. And cigs (maybe).
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I don't find it offensive for the same reason I don't find cross dressers or any other kind of gender bending offensive. We used to say gender was fixed, remember? You were a boy or you were a girl. That's changing, and I understand why Tyra went with race this time around (remember the shoot where the girls dressed up to be drag kings?). With increased globalization, there's more mixing, more new combinations, and less stark lines between cultures. So, no, I don't have an issue with that episode.
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Victor and Rolf did an all black collection in 2001. Everything was black, including the models. But would you consider it 'blackface'?
The year before they had done an all white collection.
The model is Devon Aoki.
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They also did a collection inspired by Tilda Swinton and all the models looked like her!
They are just genius fashion designers who are artists too.
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