Does ANYONE think this is a good look? Gaunt model shocks at Milan fashion show

By DEBORAH GENTILE

Emperor's New Clothes? Did anyone at last night's Gianfranco Ferré fashion show in Milan think this model looked good, or aspirational?

Hollow-eyed and gaunt, the skeletal model stalked down the runway at the Gianfranco Ferré fashion show in Milan last night wearing a dress cut in a deep V that revealed her protruding clavicle and flat chest.

A flurry of flashbulbs popped as photographers vied to get the best shot and the line of fashion editors sitting front row scribbled furiously on their notepads.


The Gianfranco Ferré show last night brought to an end a week of shows in the Italian capital

If ever there were a case of Emperor's New Clothes at fashion week, it was here.

Did any one of the assembled crowd really think this model - bony cleavage, dark circled eyes - looked good? Could they genuinely say that this image was aspirational? And ultimately, would the model do what must be her main purpose here: sell these clothes to other women?


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The answer to all of the above should surely be a firm no. But the designers' decision to use such dramatically thin models - and to accentuate their emaciated looks with the use of revealing clothing and dark make-up - suggests the powers that be within the fashion industry think otherwise.

As debate rages on about the irresponsible use of underweight models in fashion shows, it seems the designers themselves - those with the power to evoke change - are just not listening.


Gianfranco Ferré | Spring Summer 2012 Preview/Full Edited Show


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