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  The problem isn’t with the fashion industry using size zero models. The problem starts when people start relating to these models and seeing them as beauty standards. And between these two things, there is a very thin line. Awareness should revolve around the idea that skinniness is mainly genetical, and not given to everyone, and that the fashion industry likes to use size zero models only because their bodies are better “models” to show the clothes; not because they are beautiful. Responsibility should be higher on celebrities who lately all want to look like models, giving the wrong idea and example to the younger girls who look up to them.

• Cynthia C. M.

  If size zero models were better at showing clothes, then magazines and designers shouldn’t be using celebrities.  Most actresses and singers (and socialites, too) may be size 0, but most are between 5’3″ and 5’6″, so they look proportionately “bigger” than models.  In order for a typical runway model to look proportionately the same as a, say, 5’4″ actress, she’ll probably need to be size 6.

• Cynthia C. M.

  If size zero models were better at showing clothes, then magazines and designers shouldn’t be using celebrities.  Most actresses and singers (and socialites, too) may be size 0, but most are between 5’3″ and 5’6″, so they look proportionately “bigger” than models.  In order for a typical runway model to look proportionately the same as a, say, 5’4″ actress, she’ll probably need to be size 6.

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  You are definitely right, and that is without mentioning the photoshop work done on these celebrities in order to stretch them, thinner them, you name it. 

  In fact, I (and I am only speaking for myself here) have always been reluctant about using celebrities in fashion campaigns, and the whole confusion between models and celebrities. But there’s no coming back here, celebrities are involved in every aspect of the fashion world and it is never going to end. Which is why I believe that if anyone can make a change in terms of body image awareness, it will have to be the celebrities themselves in the first place – the influence they have on the youth is greater than any supermodel or any designer.

  Souraya Haddad, FB

• http://twitter.com/fashionbeirut FashionBeirut.com

  You are definitely right, and that is without mentioning the photoshop work done on these celebrities in order to stretch them, thinner them, you name it. 

  In fact, I (and I am only speaking for myself here) have always been reluctant about using celebrities in fashion campaigns, and the whole confusion between models and celebrities. But there’s no coming back here, celebrities are involved in every aspect of the fashion world and it is never going to end. Which is why I believe that if anyone can make a change in terms of body image awareness, it will have to be the celebrities themselves in the first place – the influence they have on the youth is greater than any supermodel or any designer.

  Souraya Haddad, FB

• Anonymous

  Could you imagine America’s Anna Wintour clambering to collect petitions to allow plus size models?

  http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/06/vogue-italia-is-now-sporting-3-plus-size-models-on-its-july-cover/

• Anonymous

  Ah Justin Fenner, love your analysis as usual. Say more, say more!