FSN 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Laura Mulvey, Dior Homme, Karl Lagerfeld
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The western beauty ideal: culturally constructed normative female body normative = normal or accepted, to be a fashion model today you need to be: Able bodied: western beauty ideal = global beauty ideal - sold to millions around the globe through magazine covers, advertisements, etc. Vogue being the major magazine: the thinness of western beauty ideal excludes 95% of women, photo shopped to be even thinner filippa hamilton fired for ralph lauren because she. Plus size models on the runway: plus size models are generally a size 14-16. Nyfw spring 2017: 2,973 model appearance, 16 spots were occupied by plus size models, 0. 54% of models were plus sized. Fashion month: 0. 18, nowhere in europe, season for season it seems the only constant is the curvy model count for less than 1% of the runway . The ideal body size is historically & culturally specific. Charles worth: model were workshop staff, picked for good manners.
