Doctor Evil, there is much cross over between catwalk and print- christie brinkley and cindy crawford did both. super thin kate moss now does both. high fashion does trickle down to the public through mags like vogue and cosmo- that’s why people are concerned about young girls being influenced by high fashion- they look at those mags. glad you agree with me about whose main responsibility it is. as for your ‘good luck with that’ comment- most people i know are not that wrapped up in their appearance, neither are they vain. actually i find the opposite to be true. but then i’m 42. maybe hanging out with the 20 somethings, you have different experiences.
I have a different perspective because I’ve spent a good portion of my life around fashion designers and models. Back in the 60s I came home many an afternoon from school to find a nude model lounging around on the sofa. I’ve lived with models and been married to one. You know what’s really funny? Almost every one of them wanted to gain weight. 
So in your past and current circles do you encounter a lot of vain people? That would certainly explain your perspective. I don’t mind the company of vain people if they have other things going for them, like intelligence, compassion, courage, etc. But if vanity is the focal point of their life- i think they would be boring to most people, except those like them. i understand about your point that some models might be healthy and have an extrememly low bmi. if the fashion industry wanted to police this kind of thing, then maybe they could bring in other measures of health, like blood pressure, white cell count…seems kind of crazy though. a lot of restrictions should be placed on models under the age of 18, however, just as such restrictions exist for child actors. too bad there were no work restrictions for me- i was a summer farm worker from 11 to 18 :s
No v. I’m simply answering questions (from knowledge and experience) about modeling and the fashion industry that people here are asking. You think that the people in the industry are so vain…are your opinions derived that from your personal experience or simply from some feelings of inferiorty?
dr e, i don’t know fashion people, so i was asking you, not assuming. please clue me in. also, as you’ll see in my earlier post, i was assuming that MOST people grow out of vanity/being overly concerned with other people’s opinions. You are the one that said ‘good luck with that’, implying that most people stay vain and keep being concerned about other people’s opinions. you assume vanity and superficiality in the MAJORITY of adults, not me. and then you get bent out of shape because you think i’m implying that a SUBSET of that majority, people in the fashion industry, are all vain? little contradiction there, dontcha think? Anyway, i don’t feel inferior about my looks. i think i am beautiful 4 real, and i like looking at myself in the mirror, but at the same time i know that the majority of people (in the us anyway) don’t agree with my feelings of superior pulchritude. so i didn’t grow out of being vain. actually, the older i get, the more vain i become, but at the same time, the less i care about what others think of me, including my looks. that’s a win-win, baby. :minnie: :marge: 
I have a different perspective because I’ve spent a good portion of my life around fashion designers and models. Back in the 60s I came home many an afternoon from school to find a nude model lounging around on the sofa. I’ve lived with models and been married to one. You know what’s really funny? Almost every one of them wanted to gain weight. [/quote]
Are you still in this situation? If I promise not to spit on you can I come over?
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Hell, Tyra Banks, a former model herself, has been recently laughed at in the tabloids for gaining weight (she’s 161 ) 
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Tyra Banks wasn’t a fashion model. She was a lingerie model.
*I’ve always thought of Tyra Banks :moo: as being butt ugly.[/quote]
ERRR WRONG!! Tyra Banks has been modelling since she was 15 and started out as a runway model. Then she transitioned to lingerie when she became the 1st black female to be in Victoria’s Secret and on the cover of SI.
That information was brought to you by Black History Month.
You’re much more of a wimp than I thought, Dr. Evil. From your posts, I thought you were some mercenary tough military guy with a cigar chomped between your teeth, fighting commies and stuff…and it turns out that you’re a…a…hairdresser! You’re an advisor to strutting runway models! Wow! You’re much more of an effeminate dandy, metrosexual than I expected!
Oh, who cares. Tyra Banks
a) has big tits
b) is tall and skinny
c) therefore she is hot
Therefore there is no more discussion needed about this subject. She’s hot. End of discussion.
Damn! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
I mean, DAMN!
He has a bouffant hairdo as well.
I’ve also known (& dated) models, and I can say from my experience that a lot of them have serious weight/appearance/self-image problems. (More even than the average woman.) These ranged from routine eating/not-eating obsessions to the case of a still-gorgeous (& very fit) ex-model who, when I commented jokingly on her healthy appetite, screamed “DON’T TELL ME NOT TO EAT!!” and refused to talk to me for the rest of the day. She later apologetically explained that, in her runway days, she had been pressured to starve herself by everyone around her, from her agency to her fashion-photographer husband. That phase finally ended when she passed out and spent a couple of days in a coma.
He actually prefers the term artiste du coiffeur, or hair artist for the uncouth among you.
actually his name is dr d’evil. Sorry. Everyone stop being mean to himmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.