Fashion issue

Fashion designers latest muse.


Every fashion designer has a muse in which they envision their cloths on the “perfect figure”. Andrej Pejic has been described as the latest muse due to “having the perfect female body”, but Andrej Pejic is in fact a male model. Pejic is part of fashion’s mew “femiman” trend, the latest in a new crop of gender-bending models that have risen to fame in the past few seasons. It has been said that Andrej is the leader of new gender fluidity in fashion, in which traditional male and female attitudes are starting to matter less. It’s a message that is being slowly adapted industry-wide.

Throughout fashion history there has always been the perfect female size debate, but this delicate issues has always had a devastating impact on society. With the size zero issue was debated and publicized in the media it sparked a huge debate on the effects of runway models and eating disorders.

Recently the focus on the runway was showing a shift towards natural size models i.e. Beth Ditto lead singer from The Gossip rocked the runway at Jean Paul Gaultier spring/summer 2011 in Paris. Though this was a shock move by Gaultier it was thought that this would spark media frenzy into the runway size debate yet again, but much like fashion itself the trend came and went. It seams bizarre that it was at Jean Paul Gaultier’s autumn/winter 2011 collection in Paris that he would make such a shift on the type of modals used to promote his designs.

I find it hard to believe that Andrej Pejic is considered the perfect female figure as in my eye’s it is a complete contradiction of what a female figure actually is. The natural female form consists of breasts and curves and only through surgery and extreme diets could any truly natural female figure modify their body to have this “perfect female figure”. I feel that this will spark the size zero, extreme diet fads again and could damage the future of fashion considering the average size now becoming size 12-14.