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The model and sample size debate seems to only be intensifying! Recently Coco Rocha, Gemma Ward, and Lara Stone have come under scrutiny for being considered “larger” models. At the same time we have the sample size debate; that the designers are making the samples so small that only the tinest, prepuberty girls can fit in it. Now we have the gorgeous supermodel, Doutzen Kroes, saying “I don’t do runway shows because I don’t fit the sample size”.
She points the finger at the agents and the designers as they are supposedly the ones requesting extremely young models and pressuring models to continually lose weight.
As this debate continues to heat up, what are your thoughts? Whose at fault?
Who’s fault is it? I can say it’s both the designers and society in general. The society we live in today is one that is incredibly superficial. Most men and women go for the looks, leaving a person’s personality the last to check out. First impressions don’t just account for a person’s looks, rather they shouldn’t.