This truly hit home when fashion models in New York City started wearing Patagonia fleece vests.
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"Typically, high-fashion models have boyish figures, " says Salvador Camarena, a Los Angeles-based wardrobe stylist.
"Today's black dolls have evolved from negative caricatures to play-scale representations of haute couture fashion models and other positive images of babies, toddlers and adult black people, " says Garrett.
Once inside, he gyrates to the booming beat of the deejay's music, revels in the dotings of a gaggle of long-legged fashion models and poses obligingly for every cell phone camera that is thrust into his face.
The first public sign that something was wrong was when more than 100 well dressed young women, described as looking like fashion models, gathered at the airport in the Senegalese capital Dakar, intending to board a plane to Tripoli.
There's also an aerial view of the pool at Soho House that helps to answer the question of how many angels you can get on the head of a pin, or at least fashion models cheek by jowl at a scene swimming pool on a sweltering summer day.
Which is partly why, in 2002, when Miramax cofounder Harvey Weinstein approached her about collaborating on a show he wanted to do about fashion and models, she was uncertain.
In 2000, amfAR held a fashion show with models from Victoria's Secret (don't ask me why).
Metersbonwe, a Chinese casual-wear fashion company, uses Western models to showcase their apparel.
"If that proves too taxing, then they are asked to organise a fashion parade or make Plasticine models, " he added.
They are upending traditional business models in everything from fashion to advertising.
This week, Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI).
"Rich people can have fun anywhere, " he says, as the sound of a Ferrari zooming past distracts his train of thought, while he directs a stream of models, designers and fashion writers coursing through a tent next to the Marina Bay Sands, where his fashion show is being held.
Few remember the models by name after a fashion show, despite their stunning faces and perfect figures.
Crew's fall 2013 presentation during New York Fashion Week, a number of male models turned up the collars of coats and suit jackets.
There have been efforts in fashion to be more inclusionary of Asian male models.
She has taken on super-skinny models and body image issues in fashion.
The ads abjured the traditional, superficial kind of fashion-industry images of stick-thin models with perfect hair and perfect skin, instead celebrating women who were not aesthetically ideal.
When it comes to the biannual fashion shows, which kick off Thursday, models aren't the only ones looking to drop a few pounds before hitting the tents.
Although she had been generating income from selling her own calendars and modeling for catalogues, she hit the big time by creating her own fashion line--for which she still models--and licensing her name and image to 16 manufacturers that sell her products at 50, 000 locations in 15 countries.
Yet this week, with fashion weeks under way in Madrid and London, models are finding their lifestyles under examination for different reasons.
Other industry titles have also begun to embrace design changes and even content creation models that involve the playerbase in a direct fashion.
For years, international fashion weeks have been criticized for employing ultra-skinny models with similar builds to Pejic's, increasingly so since 21-year-old Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston died from complications of anorexia in 2006.
Much like the presentation format, in which designers stage their models instead of having them walk, digital fashion shows can save time and money for a fledgling brand, or even one simply looking for flexibility.
Wong enlists fashion designers like Prada and Gucci to dress Blythe and then hires models to walk down a runway with the dolls held out in front.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell taking fashion magazines like Vogue to task, saying they're making it harder for black models to make the cover.
Vacheron is also reinterpreting one of its most elegant models for the occasion: The Historiques American 1921, a watch inspired by avant garde fashion and produced in very limited quantities in the early 1920s.
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