Milan Fashion Week Spring 2009: Versace vs. Gucci

Versace was lauded for its wearable and graceful Spring wear:

Gucci's Spring 2009 show however, was bashed as stale:

Gucci or Versace?

Fashion Then (circa 1980s) vs. Now (2010) : Contra's Ann Kirsten Kennis

Vogue (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/vampire-weekend-scandal-201008) has an interview with Ann Kirsten Kennis, the model on Vampire Weekend's 2010 album Contra.

As a professional model in the 1980s, Kennis looked like this:

In 2010 & Kennis now 53 years old, she is:

A sample of her fashion assignments in the 1980s:

Has the look of fashion changed much in 20 years?

The clothes: yes. The models: not so much...

Let's look at Odd Molly Ready-To-Wear Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009:

and what about Swahili Fashion Week 2009?

Celebrity Fashion On & Off the Red Carpet

Shia LaBeouf:

Wool suit, $518, by Club Monaco, Shirt by Spurr. Tie by Band of Outsiders.

Downtime LaBeouf:

Michelle Obama in Peter Soronen:

The First Lady in J. Crew:

Kristen Stewart in Prabal Gurung Fall 2010 Longsleeve Lurex Black Dress:

                                               Stewart in LNA with Ray-Ban wayfarer sunglasses:

The wayfarer design has been enjoying a revival:

Ezra Koenig of indie band Vampire Weekend in generic (perhaps XL Record) wayfarers

&

Jude Law in Black Ray-Ban wayfarers

&

 

Kanye West in wayfarer type sunglasses with bling bling arms.

Top Model Whitney Thompson Endorses "Love Your Body" Campaign: Yay or Nay?

NOW Foundation (http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/) is campaigning against the (perhaps) unhealthy promotion of the thin woman as the ideal woman in visual media. 


Top Model Whitney Thompson has paired with plus-size model Chenese Lewis for the Love Your Body Campaign:

Who is healthy looking? For women is visual healthiness the same as attractiveness for? Do paradigms of attractive need updating?

In case you missed the soft glow of the 80s.

Tyra Banks: her infamous fat photo circa 2007.

Tyra Banks in mainstream modeling form.

What body type suits her best to you? Or does that matter if she's equally happy in both physical states?

This image was recently used (in a series of images) to promote "Top Model." Is this an unhealthy/disturbing image and/or philosophy?

But surely there's a difference between the aforementioned girl/woman's waist and Gisele Bundchen's:

While Gisele Bundchen is thin, she is thin-curvy as opposed to waifish-heroin chic 90s supdermodel Kate Moss:

Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen are still thinner than Western beauty Sophia Loren in the 1950s:

& Anita Ekberg in the 1960s:

Yet actress & fashion icon Grace Kelly was also popular in the 1950s:

Then again, very thin Britt Ekland (most famous as a Bond Girl) was popular in the 70s:

Do you think there is more/less variety in mainstream media aimed at women? Even if there is, are the desirable women usually thin? The Nikki Blonsky women usually goofy and lovable sidekicks to the "hot" (thin) female protagonist?