The New York Fashion Week is the most important fashion show all over the
world. All famous designers and well-known fashion-reviewers are there and
in the spotlights.
Stylists like Rufus Wainwright, Alice Temperly, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan,
Oscar de la Renta, Zac Posen and Betsey Johnson go there.
This event is only for invited guests, so you have to have connections to
the fashion industry to be allowed to be at the Fashion Week.
Some celebrities were at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, but it’s
not that big as it is in New York.
Worldwide the fashion industries know that the models are too thin and not
able to meet the stress, because their idols are impossible to reach.
In December 2007 Alice Schwarzer, Ulla Schmidt, Ursula von der Leyen and
Annette Schavan gave the starting signal for the campaign “Life needs
Weight”. This campaign is against anorexia nervosa and other eating
disorders. The “Lucia AG” does the same especially for models.
In a letter US-designer Diane von Fürstenberg appeals to her collegues to do
the same as they did in Spain and Italy: Models have to have a certain
weight to be allowed to walk on the catwalk!
She wishes that these guidelines apply to the USA in the future.
Because many of those people, who are sick (of anorexia nervosa or other
eating disorders), die, or they have to live with terrible permanent damage!
I think that this campaign won’t be a big thing for the world. The world is so big and gorgeous, there isn’t such a little German campaign that can change the world.
Comment by Nora · 19. January 2010 @ 23:50 · Direct Reply
It´s surprising to see the fashion industry doing something against Anorexia.
Models having a certain weight would be a good step. Also since 2007 some things have changed. Model´s weight is becoming higher and higher, but people´s interest in fashion is as high as before.
Comment by Aaron · 27. January 2010 @ 09:59 · Direct Reply