Grace Coddington is Worried About How Young and Thin Models Are
This is a note we received from Jill Weiskopf at New York magazine through the Feminist Blogs contact form on 21 Ocotober 2009:
From: Jill Weiskopf
To: Feminist Blogs Web Team
Subject: The Cut: Grace Coddington Is Worried About How Young and Thin Models Are
Nymag.com’s The Cut blog attended Grace Coddington’s talk at the New York Public Library last night during which the Vogue creative director answered some tough questions about Ralph Lauren’s recent Photoshopping debacle and too-thin models in general:
“It is a big problem,” Coddington admitted. “I remember when I was young, they told me that if I didn’t lose weight I’d be out of the show, so I spent a week living off of coffee. But I’m a very levelheaded person. These problems nowadays are with kids much, much younger than that, and that’s most of the problem — when they’re very young and vulnerable.” Coddington feels Ralph Lauren is shouldering an unfair amount of the blame: “Most of his models are not super-skinny, so this is sort of an isolated situation, and I think it’s unfair if he gets a lot of bad publicity because of it. But it is a big problem in the fashion industry. And you go to meetings to discuss it, and you think it’s kind of futile, because it’s such a big thing, and in the end, people are always asking for more and they’re always asking for thinner.”
Read on at http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/10/grace_coddington_is_worried_ab.html