GAP promotes always skinny jeans with anorexic mannequin
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[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/gap-mannequins-always-skinny-a-bit-too-skinny/2011/08/11/gIQAwb8p8I_blog.html]Washington Post[/url]
[release]On Tuesday, a Gap store display in London stopped Alice Taylor in her tracks. Taylor, the founder of MakieLab.com, an online gaming company, was not bowled over by the fashion sense of the store. Instead, she was appalled by the size of the mannequin.
On the “Always Skinny” jeans display, a barely there mannequin poses above the shoppers. “I was amazed that they would advertise such skinny legs — skinnier than a healthy [Body Mass Index] person, and even skinnier than someone already underweight. This is anorexia-thin,” Taylor wrote in an e-mail two days later.
Taylor tweeted out the photos, while her husband Cory Doctrow posted them to the culture blog Boing Boing.
“I'm wondering what the internal project name for this was at Gap HQ,” Doctrow wrote. “‘Death-camp chic’? ‘Ana Pride’? ‘Famine fashion forward’?
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The British fashion community has been accused of promoting anorexia before. In 2009, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said Fashion Week promoted the disease with its ultra-thin models. That same year, a fashion designer’s decision to use size 12 and 14 models on the runway stirred up controversy. The British Fashion Council banned models with a BMI of under 16. A woman's healthy body mass index (BMI) is between 18.5 and 25.
The Gap mannequins are not the only skinny shapes to stir up controversy in stores. The popular British clothing line TopShop had to pull magazine ads in February that featured a thin model after complaints by anorexic support groups.
As for the Gap mannequins, Taylor says, it’s not enough to just stop shopping at the store. “By promoting ‘Always Skinny’ and these anorexic mannequins by the front door of their entrance onto the busiest shopping street in London, GAP is promoting an illness as something to aspire to.”
Gap has not returned our calls for comments.[/release]
and on a separate note, Alice(the lady who took the photos) is now seeking money from the Daily Mail after they knowingly infringed on her copyright of the photos. [url=http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2011/08/the-daily-mail-knowingly-and-commercially-used-my-photos-despite-my-denying-them-permission.html]Check out her blog to see the whole story[/url]
fashion inspired by slenderman?
That would be disgusting to see someone walking down the street in those jeans.
Sweet shit, those legs :v:
If that was a human I would've been asking how the fuck are they walking.
looks like they lost the manequin legs and shoved two poles in there.
This is almost as disgusting as Gap's excruciatingly campy commercials.
That's basically the width of my arm. How could anyone walk with legs like those?
There was a girl in my highschool with legs that thin. Every time I saw her I was worried that she would break her legs or something.
I cannot read at all today.
[QUOTE=Keyblockor;31797709]If that was a human I would've been asking how the fuck are they walking.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.facepunch.com/avatar/120685.png[/img]
I wonder the same thing.
[QUOTE=butters757;31797825][URL="http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2011/08/the-daily-mail-knowingly-and-commercially-used-my-photos-despite-my-denying-them-permission.html"]There's an interesting story behind the photo in the news post.[/URL][/QUOTE]
I mentioned that in the OP actually.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;31797898]I mentioned that in the OP actually.[/QUOTE]
Wow, I cannot read at all today.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;31797954][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/13131982427321.png[/img][/QUOTE]
What am I looking at exactly?
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;31797981]What am I looking at exactly?[/QUOTE]
satire
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;31797981]What am I looking at exactly?[/QUOTE]I think it is representing how the media/society likes to portray women.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;31797954][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/13131982427321.png[/img][/QUOTE]
If that's what built-fat is I'll take 20.
[QUOTE=Sanius;31797993]satire[/QUOTE]
Figures.
As a former Gap employee I can assure you they're an evil empire.
if you have legs like this you should be in a hospital or a concentration camp, not a GAP
[img]http://www.themannequinman.com/female-form-plus-size-.jpg[/img]
would rather have anorexic mannequins instead of this though
What company models their jeans with Mary Kate Olson?
[QUOTE=Lemonator;31798219][img]http://www.themannequinman.com/female-form-plus-size-.jpg[/img]
would rather have anorexic mannequins instead of this though[/QUOTE]
uh how the fuck is that plus size?
I didn't know there was still a Miss Auschwitz pageant.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;31798219][img]http://www.themannequinman.com/female-form-plus-size-.jpg[/img]
would rather have anorexic mannequins instead of this though[/QUOTE]
What's wrong with that
[QUOTE=Lemonator;31797954][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/13131982427321.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I guess I'm into fat chicks then.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;31797954][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/13131982427321.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I'LL TAKE THE SKINNY ONE
just kidding thats disgusting
[QUOTE=Billiam;31798287]I guess I'm into fat chicks then.[/QUOTE]
The woman in the picture, referred to as obese, is probably the ideal and healthy weight for women.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;31798425]The woman in the picture, referred to as obese, is probably the ideal and healthy weight for women.[/QUOTE]
Built-fat picture. Athletic and sexy.
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