Meet the January cover girl of French Vogue, y'all!
Hot, right??
Getting a good sense of what these clothes might look like on you?
What's that? You're not? Oh, that's because SHE'S TEN YEARS OLD. Yeah.... 10. One year older than my niece, who is just reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Who thinks that adding some variant of "poop" and "pee" to every single line on a Mad Libs is the height of humor (she may not be wrong there).
Found this on the Daily Mail, who, I'm sure, is positively giddy over the outrage it's causing. Yes, they are incredibly sexualized photos. Yes, I am horrified that the picture just above has her in a top cut so low that I wouldn't dare wear on the sluttiest night of the year Halloween. Yes, this is the same type of photography that gets Chris Hansen in a tizzy.
But let's put aside the whole "this is the epitome of all that's wrong in this sad, fucked up little world of ours" thing and focus on my immediate thought, since I'm neither a pedophile nor a parent: Can I open just one goddamned magazine and see clothes on someone that has at least graduated high school?
I'm not asking for much here. Really. Fuck fat models. Screw models over 25 (HAGS! ALL OF YOU!). Right now, I'd settle for someone that at least could drive to the photo shoot themselves:
Below is 15 year old Hailee Steinfeld, Mattie Ross in last year's True Grit. Stunning portrayal of a child looking for vengeance for her father's death. Now, she's the face of Miu Miu.
13 year old Elle Fanning! Dakota's tyke sister, and also the model for Marc by Marc Jacobs' fall/winter line.
She'd be a great model, if I were looking for something to wear on my first day of freshman year. BUT I'M NOT. I'm a grown damned woman, looking to purchase clothes that I can wear to my job, that I can work without having to enforce Child Labor Laws.
Fashion designers, magazine editors, I implore you, on behalf of women everywhere... please. PLEASE. This isn't avant garde (clearly, since you aren't the only one doing it), this isn't edgy. This is just... stupid. Cast some models who's list of craziest nights don't include "that time when mom let me stay up past 10:30 to wait for Santa."
1 comment:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years old?!?! WTF. It is creepy. NOT artistic. NOT creative. NOT a social commentary. It is creepy and uncalled for, and I completely agree with you 110%. The parents of this child should be locked up and not allowed to procreate. Too harsh?
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