Fashion's Weak: Vogue's Anna Wintour Makes The Rodarte Ladies Lose Weight
Anna Wintour, the bobbed bobblehead behind American Vogue, was so horrified that Rodarte designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy had unfashionable accessories like breasts and thighs that she put them on a strict diet and exercise regime for the magazine’s racy “Shape” issue. The sisters were not to go over 1,300 calories a day four four months and ended up losing about 30 pounds each, or roughly the weight of an Eastern European 14-year-old traipsing down a catwalk.
While we’re well aware that being overweight is unhealthy, so, ultimately, is dieting. Besides, who gave Anna Wintour the ok to have any sort of jurisdiction over another person’s body? You can be quite sure that if someone we were in a business relationship with made any sort of remark about our body, we’d hit them over the head repeatedly with a hefty, advertisement-laden issue of Vogue and then use the pages to line the human-size birdcage we keep in the corner of our bedroom. Because we’re just that ferosh.
But! Never one to avoid a chance at being hypocritical, Anna wrote in her April letter from the editor that models at New York’s autumn shows were “pale and thin, entirely lacking in the joyfulness and charm that once defined the supermodels.” Well, there are two ways to help exude joyfulness and charm: Eating food. Or doing copious amounts of coke / male models, preferably at once. And you can’t have it both ways.
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The only thing I dislike more than Vogue itself is Anna Wintour. Did she ask Michael Kors to drop some weight and get six pack abs? Doubt it. And it is a shame that those sisters couldn’t stand up for themselves and tell Wintour to drown a slow death in a pool of butter.
Posted by Latin_Princess | March 22, 2008
I just read this article in Vogue today and the think that most jumped out at me was the emphasis on “stress reduction,” as if more physically fit and thinner people somehow lead less stressful lives. There was no real indication that they were losing weight for aesthetic or health reasons, just “stress reduction,” followed up with the caveat that the Mulleavy sisters have great self esteem and didn’t feel bad about themselves in their heavier bodies. There were just, you know, stressed out. Not because they are starting out their own fashion line and have tons of work to do to get their company off the ground, but because they were fat. What a nice way of sidestepping the reality that obese people have lots of health problems because of their weight and are considered less attractive than their thinner counterparts. The article was the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read in a long time.
Posted by no-fatties | March 23, 2008
Weight is irrelevent to creativity and Vogue should know better, especially since tons of flaca celebrity that can’t even thread a needle are coming out with their own “designs”. Thanks for posting this.
Posted by mrytza@yahoo.com | March 25, 2008
Why did the sisters agree to this? They should have called out that bitch! How dare she? I wonder what she tells her own daughter about her body? How “high-fashion” is anorexia or bulimia?
Get a life and grow an ass Anna!
Posted by strike_a_poseur | March 25, 2008
They needed to lose weight! They looked like heart attacks waiting to happen, and maybe the sisters wanted to face reality and get healthy. Neither of them looks anorexic now, I might add. They look healthy.
Posted by Susan | March 29, 2008