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Posted by Lori Henry Apr 11, 2007 |
The Rosemount Australian Fashion Week has announced its decision to release “Healthy Weight and Body Image” guidelines. The focus is on media editors and photographers, who are the ones clicking the photos of the models and deciding which ones are to be published.
A part of the guidelines states that it isn’t uncommon for photos to be taken that portray the model incorrectly. Meaning, thinner than they actually are.
The head of the fashion week, Simon Long, is concerned that photographers are taking the “too skinny” controversy too far and clicking photos of models in certain poses that enhance the amount of bones protruding from their skin.
He says that photographers are waiting for the moment when the model pauses in an awkward way that makes them look thinner.
"On occasions there can be some very unfortunate poses where models may twist their hips and expose rib cages, where they can look extraordinarily thin when they are not,' he was quoted as saying. (The Daily Telegraph, 2007)
Long goes on to explain that he realizes how some young girls look up to these models obsessively and that this portrayal is negative for their self-esteem and body image.