Female models in hooker binbags . . . You can tell men are running the fashio... - 0 views
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he defining image of last week’s fashion shows was a rapaciously thin, tapewormlike man/woman trudging his/her/its way angrily through piles of dung-like mud at Balenciaga.
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It only feels like a minute ago that the catwalks were filled with “proud” fat women. Now it has gone straight back to what the fashion establishment was always obsessed with: anorexic men, posing in chainmail tops and necklaces, like girls.
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Just as football is run by a bunch of grasping, psychotic Euro alpha males, fashion too now has its grim male overlords. Ten years ago most of the fashion editors were women; now they’re men, who appear to place women in two bald categories: the blank, naked perennially available ingenue who is preferably male-seeming, or the ageing, broken supermodel who is basically an embarrassment and must be covered with Eilish’s blankets.
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This matters because there are few professions in this world where women are paid a lot more than men.
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womenswear, for example, no longer exists as an idea. If you look up the shows on Vogue.com you will see there is only menswear, and ready-to-wear — the word “women” has literally been removed, possibly in order to paper over the fact that female models have been effectively booted off the catwalks and replaced largely with trans models and men.
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There is ballet, of course, and porn. Unlike either of these, fashion is mainstream and acceptable: the one place where women can be seen, globally, to score big. But now half of the models I see at Paris and Milan are male. Not just men, but people who need the money the least: rich, famous men. Every time I see Kanye West modelling at what used to be a womenswear show, I see struggling Balkans model done out of a job.
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Meanwhile the fashion disciples drink in the various “visions” as if they were gospel, explaining how important they are politically, without realising that nothing matters to them, politically, more than their status as women.
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not only are women being physically removed from the one world they thought might be theirs, but are again being invited to diet themselves out of existence.