October 12, 2009 - 9:21AM
Curvy women have no place on the catwalk, iconic German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was quoted as saying, after a fashion magazine said it was banning skinny models in favour of "real women".
"No one wants to see curvy women," Lagerfeld was quoted as saying on the website of news magazine Focus on Sunday.
"You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly," he added.
The world of fashion is about "dreams and illusions", he said, dismissing as "absurd" the debate prompted by Brigitte magazine which said it would no longer feature professional models on its pages.
Brigitte, one of Germany's top women's magazines, said last week it would only publish photographs of "real women" after readers complained they could not identify with the models depicted.
The magazine's editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert told The Guardian last week that he was sick of having to retouch photos of underweight models.
"For years we have had to use Photoshop to fatten the girls up," he said. "Especially their thighs and decolletage. But this is disturbing and peverse, and what has it got to do with our real reader?"
He said he would invite German women to put themselves forward as models for the magazine. According to The Guardian he is likely to extend an invitation to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The magazine will stop using professional models from 2010.
AFP
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p.s. both miss C and I are extremely with uni - trying to wrap up assessments and studying for exams! its total CHAOS! but we will be back in full mid-nov!
p.s.s. WATCH: 500 days of summer! i saw it saturday night with the bf and it is VERY VERY GOOD!!!!
lots of love,
miss L
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