Model Talk

Anorexic models in London can put that sandwich down since the British Fashion Council has abandoned plans to ban size zero models from London Fashion Week catwalks. The council states that the proposed health certificates could deter designers and models alike from participating in fashion week, you can check out this article for the details.

The proposed ban came about because an anorexic model collapsed and died while walking back to the dressing room after a fashion show in 2006. The rampant misogyny in the fashion industry treats models like objects that are disposable, and encourages unhealthy weight standards that is making these women drop like flies. Does anyone else sense something sick and anti-woman going on in the fashion world? These designers are setting the beauty standard, but is this really beautiful? In whose eyes is an emaciated body, with protruding ribcage, knobby knees, vacant eyes, beautiful? Who are these sick fuckers? And why would anyone want to work for one of these anti-female pricks?

It seems that Tyra Banks is having some kind of identity crisis these days. The ex-supermodel turned daytime talk-show host recently posed for Harper’s Bazaar magazine in a lengthy pictorial as a Michelle Obama look-alike, along with an Obama look-alike husband and kids, equipped with a fake Oval Office background. It is insinuated that Banks has White House aspirations, not to someday be president, this is Tyra we’re talking about, after all; but to be first lady. There’s nothing wrong with having a dream, and clearly for Banks dreaming big has paid off, hence the inexplicable success of the gabfest known as the Tyra Banks Show. But this photo spread is bordering on the deranged. It seems to me that Banks doesn’t just want to be a first lady, as she would have us believe, but more like the first lady, specifically to Barack Obama. It’s creepy and self-serving (total publicity stunt) but not shocking coming from a woman who brought you such talk-show gems like “All About the Booty” and “America’s Next Top Transsexual Model.” One thing is clear, Tyra’s insatiable crush on the Obamas is about as subtle as a box of hammers.