Atlanta Carpet Cleaning - interior fashion never looked so clean! The fabrics, upholstery and carpet runways makeup assistants.
Elle of Kiss Me Stace stopped by the blog the other day to leave her thoughts on my post, Celebrity-Less Fashion Ads, and what she had to say made me stop and rethink the idea about using models in fashion ads. I do agree that it would be better to use "real" people in ads - people who are bigger than a size "0" and aren't airbrushed over. That option would certainly be at the top of the list, but since that's not happening anytime soon, why not give the job to the aspiring models? I don't see anything wrong with that.
However, as Elle pointed out, there are so many things wrong with the modeling industry, so why support these models? The industry is full of pressure to be skinny, "there's the lack of doing something real and meaningful" (Elle's words, not mine).
Whether or not modeling is a meaningful career to get into is up for debate, but we won't get into that in this post. Yes, there are many things that could be improved in the modeling industry, but I wouldn't say that the whole industry shouldn't be supported. There are legitimate agencies out there that promote realistic-looking models...and besides, if there weren't models, there wouldn't be any runway shows!
And since we're on the subject of modeling, here's an interesting post by Elle that is slightly related: Magazine Ads Decrease - Is this bad? With ads on the decline, there may be some models without jobs pretty soon ;(
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