Body Trends

Today I will be talking about body trends. They come and go as much as style trends and they are just as different from culture to culture, from town to town, from city to city. Back where I came from, in the small town of nowheresville, having an athletic, curvy body was "in". The role model would probably have been Giselle or possibly CIndy Crawford. In New York, the trend is anorexia. As a famou designer once told Natalia Vodianova, "the look is anroexic...you dont have to be anorexic, just look it." My question is, why in one town is health the ideal, whereas in another city, one must appear as if they are starving? What is the connection to the fashion trends. In Nowheresville, the look was simole, casual. Tight jeans and t shirts were in fashion and I suppose, in order to pull off such girl next foor fare, one must have a body to fill it out with. In the city, people are wearing off the runway couture, so they must look like the models who wore it originally. However, I have seen many anorexic women in New York. In one instance at the Monique L'Huillier show, I saw a small doll like little girl, very malnourished, speaking to a tall, fully grown woman, the kind of woman who commands the respect of an entire room. The doll like girl turned out to be a fully grown woman as well... or as fully grown as such a wasted away body could let her be. The malnourished woman repelled where the healthy one compelled. The malnourished brought sorrow and discomfort where the healthy one brought a respectful awe. Both were wearing Couture, your question my readers is... which would you rather be?