So... as you'll see more soon, we may not be that nice to this model - but models aren't more worthy of worship than celebrities, and who's nice to celebrities?
This model, Lara Stone, is fashion's IT Girl du Jour. That's fine. But her unique features we notice, the differences that make her intriguing in our eyes---quite blatantly her strange, awkward, gawky features---those are not what others notice.
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She's getting attention for being different from other models, but it's for her extra dress size or two---not her awkward middle-schoolgirl face. We could celebrate diversity in facial aesthetics, but instead this actual busty catwalker is a spectacle for curves---even if she only has so many.
So why is this anomaly so famous now? It's probably to do with her following the routine-pout mixed with being a muse for artistic fashion photography (she comes through in print fantastically interesting like a compelling novel, even when not beautiful). But before we rant about a size 4 being the "new curvy" -- let's get familiar with the face. You likely know it if you're a fashionista, but do you know all the good, the bad, and the ugly?
Sources: Cyana Trend Land, W Editor's Blog, Models.com
Ella M.
wow. Her 'middle school girl' and 'awkward' face? You are a moron. First of all she is famous for more than just being a size 4. It's the whole package. You have a problem it seems, with the fact that the modeling industry doesn't show enough 'real' (read-fat) women. And they should all show women more like, well you. Then you can feel good about yourself. This argument about what models look like I have always found so stupid. The designers are trying to SELL something. The models job is to help them. Clothes tend to look better on a tall, thin frame. And of course it would also follow for the models to be attractive. So of course that is what they are going to be. But it is not only about being simply pretty, nowadays especially it is about finding someone unique, If you look a lot of the most successful runeay models working today you will notice many of them have a very unique look, maybe they are somewhat adrogynous or have something (like a gap) most people would correct. Even among those though, Lara is special. But you are here mocking her because apparently YOU are the one who has a very narrowly defined view of what is attractive. You think she is strange looking and don't understand her appeal, how is that different from the way most people find overweight people unnattractive? My point is if you want to celebrate all types of bodies and why wouldn't that extend to faces? And if you know what it's like to feel excluded WHY would you ever do it to anyone else? You are NOT a 'fashionista.' People who are really in to fashion don't even use that ridiculous word and they also don't NOT get models that look like Lara. You're just jealous and bitter, plain and simple, end of story. Fat models will never be on the runway because the majority of them are not attractive and the ones who are would look even better if they lost some weight.