Fashion trends dictated by industry are pivotal to decision making in societies at large.?

Question

What is your opinion ?

Discursive:
Fashion industries are without an equivalent of an oversight body where the primacy of clothes are supported by archetypal body types, the dictates of fashion ‘gurus’. The present axiomatic characteristics are praised and encouraged.

Fashion media whets the public appetite, salves cravings of popular culture and provides jobs in a multimillion dollar industry. These alone are justifiable means of gainful employment whilst fulfilling sensory and intellectual lust. Women are encouraged with the connivance of peers and doting parents. Further personal validation is reinforced through mass media, billboards and on print.

Obiter Dictum: The last time full figured models seen on the catwalk was in the 1980s like Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer. Heroin chic portrayed on a size 0 in the1990s with Kate Moss.

With skinner models, designers don't have to worry about rolls of fat when they sit down. Crawford and Schiffer on the catwalk would be unable to carry off bra-less trapeze dress. Nobody would be looking at the dress, only her breasts. That's vulgar. Should they have bright and sparkling eyes with glowing skin, something that won't be there if they party too much, smoke and take drugs.

Whilst the World Health Organisation rules anything above 25 overweight, below 18.5 underweight, Madrid's ban on models with a BMI of under 18 meant models qualifying for catwalks could not weigh less than 52kg with minum entry height of 1.74m.

South American model Luisel Ramos' died from a heart attack minutes after stepping off a catwalk in Uruguay. Her father claims she ate nothing but green leaves and Diet Coke over 3 months in a bid to stay within weight limits for the runway.

Answer 1

Speaking only of American women, it could be having an effect, but I think it's the opposite. We're disgusted with oursleves that we don't look like the models, so we eat even more.

On the other hand, I'm not sure the average American woman pays that much attention to the fashion industry at that level. We usually buy what's available at Target, Wal-mart & K-mart and/or jeans & T-shirts.