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Fashion'south ultimate insult to women: The latest style of demeaning real women is a male person model dressed as a daughter

Center for glamour: Andrej Pejic's flawless feminine features

For years at present the debate has raged over size nada models, withal each year they became skinnier and less like women. No breasts, no curves, so desiccated by starvation they'd exist unable to have a child even if they wanted to.

They became utterly defeminised.

Just by whom? Real women started to love their curves long earlier Christina Hendricks wowed the globe in Mad Men with hers. And by all accounts men love them, too.

So who collection this obsession to strip women of their femininity?

It was an edict by the fashion mafia — buyers, trend-setters, photographers, but especially the designers. They decreed that to look good in their creations a model couldn't look like a adult female. She had to be apartment-chested, devoid of hips, with collarbones you could claw a dress hanger on. In fact, she has to wait less like a woman and more like a boy.

Size zero turned out to be an apt term as the most feted designers, generally bright gay men, effectively tried to squeeze women out of the fashion equation. And now they accept.

Who could take predicted that the ultimate solution to the Size Cypher Contend would be Goose egg Woman. Because that's exactly what we have with London and New York Fashion Weeks, and Couture Week in Paris.

The new darling of the catwalk is a human. The Serbian-born model of female dazzler is an androgynous lad of 19 from Melbourne.

With his long blond hair, huge almond-shaped optics, Angelina Jolie lips and a body every bit apartment as a surfboard, Andrej Pejic is the toast of women's high fashion the earth over.

A beautiful teenager with the face of a girl and the trunk of a boy — the perfect expression of beauty for these elevation fashion designers.

Ruffling feathers: Pejic in that Gaultier wedding dress

A star in stripes: On the catwalk in Paris last month

It'due south the ultimate in adult female hating, to create a half-man, half-adult female creature because the girls are simply not up to the job. They're too, let's face up information technology boys, womanly, even when they've been starved to within an inch of their lives.

What an human action of abject misogyny.

This betrayal of women has been brewing in the fashion world for decades now. People point to the Sixties and Twiggy, the skinniest model in the entire universe, but she was a one-off, not a trend-setter.

Nigh women so would still have wanted the perfect hourglass figures of Ava Gardner or Jane Russell. And and so would their men.

Dressing down: The model at home in Melbourne

No, the obsession with models who looked like boys actually took hold in September 2006 when a 22-year-old model collapsed at the Milan shows after stepping off the stage.

For months Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos had fasted and boozer virtually nothing to reach her target weight —she weighed less than 9st at 5ft 9in. She had the trunk mass alphabetize of a teenager x years younger.

Some other model, Brazilian Ana Carolina Reston, died presently afterwards. The 21-year-erstwhile was 5ft 8in and weighed just over 6st when she died.

Only similar many models, to work and continue the body shape required by the designers and the bookers, Luisel had to fight nature with starvation, with slimming pills, with laxatives — anything and everything to stay skinny.

You lot would take idea that would take been a wake-up call for the fashion industry simply no, the designers wanted them fifty-fifty thinner — as demonstrated this week when Samantha Cameron sat in the front row of the Erdem show at London Way Week, watching a pair of chopsticks walking downward the catwalk.

Chloe Memisevic, the model, was so thin she did not have an ounce of fat on her body. Caved in cheekbones, arms — if you'll forgive the illustration — that belonged to a concentration camp survivor.

I was at London Manner Calendar week and I saw some of the women for myself. In the flesh they look fifty-fifty more than hideously gaunt, legs without a defining muscle on them, knees that knock together as they walk, chests devoid of whatsoever femininity save the occasional pert nipple.

How did we ever become to the phase where nosotros allowed a small group of designers — however talented — to determine that this is what is beautiful in a adult female?

And then step by step the elite of mostly gay designers has been creating catwalk designs for pre-pubescent teenagers, and each twelvemonth wanting models who looked less and less like women.

And the ridiculous thing is no adult female tin can maintain a body mass index of effectually 18 — which is what a tall woman needs to await like a skeleton — without abusing their trunk.

The designers were wanting women to wait more than and more similar young men. That, I am afraid, is the uncomfortable truth. So it was not a big footstep for them to start replacing women with teenage boys then, was it?

And and then step forward Andrej Pejic. And in what must be the ultimate misogynist's in-joke, his explosive arrival on the elite fashion scene was at Couture Calendar week in Paris last month when he was chosen by Jean Paul Gaultier to vesture his evidence-stopping, semi-encounter-through wedding clothes.

The bride with no breasts and a lunchbox was more similar the bride of Frankenstein. You'd have thought the one walk-on part a woman could have in a designer's fantasy was as a blushing bride.

Beautiful: Andrej Pejic during New York Fashion Week

Don't go me wrong. Andrej does non wait like some Soho drag queen. Quite the contrary. The nineteen-yr-former Australian is beautiful. He is clever as well.

The son of an economist father and lawyer mother, he eventually aims to get into law himself. Only he is still a simulated. Ane of his admirers recently commented that he was honey in the mode industry considering he is 'and so at home in his own pare'.

Nonsense. He's at home in a adult female's skin.

The truth is, information technology doesn't take to be like this. As Andrej was having his Brazilian wax in preparation for his catwalk appearances, the designer Roland Mouret was quietly opening a huge salon at 8 Carlos Place in Mayfair.

Information technology owes its existence to a wearing apparel he designed some years ago — the Galaxy. He has been a phenomenal success because he understood that women take curves they tin can't do much most and men by and large like them, especially when they can be transformed from a muffin-height waistline into Marilyn Monroe.

And this as Mad Men shoots some other series, mainly off the bosom of Hendricks, and Debenhams reports a 225 per cent sales increase in clothes that give women hourglass figures.

Even the original stick insect Victoria Beckham has jumped on the real woman bandwagon and designed her unabridged range effectually feminine curves.

It is not all hopeless. I went to the designer Amanda Wakeley'due south show and was moved almost to tears (very uncool I'm told) past the most sublimely beautiful dress unashamedly designed for women.

They nipped in waists, complemented curves and historic cleavage. Andrej would have looked a right twit in them.

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