London Fashion week is upon us! …It has been for a few days actually (I have 44 shows to catch up on). London isn’t known for being a heavy-hitter of fashion shows, but more for being the rowdy, rebellious one of the bunch (the bunch being New York, Milan and Paris). In fact, a headline came out of London today that I’ve never seen before. It wasn’t about the usual subjects for fashion articles – not about trends, or collections, or even about models not eating (although it could almost be about models not eating), but this: Stylist at London Fashion Week resigns over designer Mark Fast’s decision to use size 14 models. Maybe next they’ll get in a tizzy over a designer actually using models of color.
*You can view the Mark Fast collection from New York Magazine or Style.com. Style.com also covered the brou-ha-ha.*
Seriously though, the idea was that the designer wanted women to understand that you didn’t have to be stick-thin to look good in his clothing. Especially in this economy, it makes total sense to me that a designer might want to communicate wearability to the people who would ultimately be buying his clothing. Unfortunately, his stylist and creative designer didn’t agree, and walked out. That kind of reminds me how every season on Project Runway the designtestants bitch and moan when they’re presented with the “design for real women” challenge. I’m obvs totally down with the “real woman” thing, and while I commend Mark Fast’s gumption, after seeing his models I wasn’t convinced that he has the right idea of who will look good in his clothing:
Do these pictures inspire you to wear those dresses? Maybe it’s the dress, because I still don’t like it on the skinny model:
Much better (at least she doesn’t look lumpy), but still not very exciting:
This one he got right:
On second thought, maybe his stylist and creative designer quit because of the clothes he wanted to put these models in.
What's your opinion?