September 25, 2007
Nolita Uses Anorexic Model In Ads
That headline doesn't seem like news, but this model appears to be of a different eating-disorder variety. (Think The Insider-anorexic, not Anna Wintour-anorexic) Anyway, SF Fashion Week -- which came and went without so much as a whimper, save for a few open bars and elated coke dealers -- could have done something similar to this to make some sort of spark. Fashion house NO.l.ita (North of Little Italy) sure did:
Giorgio Armani criticized the ad, saying "[a]norexia has reasons which are not linked to fashion. Even people who take no notice of fashion get anorexic."
NSFW version after the jump. (From Slog, via DListed)
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The real model they featured in the companies website is not much bigger than the anorexic model and she also posed in the typical woman-in-subservient role position.
The problem of anorexia is bigger than fashion - most people, men especially, have come to expect women to have the body of a Caucasian or Asian sixteen year old forever.
These campaigns are empty gestures... but they do succeed in getting press evidently.
o hai anorexia
dont u guiz no *~bones r b-e-a-utiful~*?
Okay, sorry, I know, this is... bad, yeah.
Why is this on SFist? Your readers check out other blogs too... Recycling stories from Dlisted and Perez Hilton is getting old, especially ones that have nothing to do with San Francisco. Is it really that hard to develop your own features?
My Precious!!
(and guest #3--do you have a job or do you just surf the internet all day? write your own blog, genius)
i'm with guest 3. you say "SFist is a website about San Francisco" so stick with the local. i always liked this site for its unique take on local issues (yay rita and matty matt!) not just stories that i can find anywhere on the internet, including on sfgate.
Mmm, I'm enjoying a big piece of chocolate cake as I see this, and my fat a** never looked better.