FSN 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Susie Orbach, Filippa Hamilton, Karl Lagerfeld
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Reclaiming the word, the colour and the art (knitting) Using vagina in the place of women excludes transpeople. How are women coded in fashion? (1) the western beauty ideal (2) objectification (3) dismemberment. Who is represented in fashion? (who is not?) Culturally constructed normative female body (5"10 , size 2, age 14-22, caucasian, able bodied) Vogue has 21 international magazines and yet they are still primarily western based. The thinness of western beauty ideal excludes 95% of women and yet are photoshopped to be even thinner. Filippa hamilton fired for ralph lauren because she cannot fit into the sample size . Season for season, it seems the only constant is the curvy models account for less than 1% of the runway -- fashion spot. The ideal body size is historically and culturally specific. Few codes of physical attractiveness are timeless or universal. Today"s ubiquitous ideal -- it is singular, we are glorifying only one ideal, one size.
