tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post8083938552279983386..comments2023-04-01T11:03:14.672-04:00Comments on EXIT EVERYTHING: LOVE magazine, andrej pejic, fashion androgynyhilary beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02303946101184775312noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post-35565530313352592182011-01-29T19:33:33.516-05:002011-01-29T19:33:33.516-05:00i dont think that dress exagerates Andrej's pr...i dont think that dress exagerates Andrej's propotions, i dont think there is any padding there. Andrej has a 26 inch waist and 36 inch hips so that is a 10 inch difference hence why the hips look wider but there are plenty of girls with these measurements that do book blue chip campaigns!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post-34083803558844117492011-01-29T15:13:45.076-05:002011-01-29T15:13:45.076-05:00The size 4 comments were not in reference to Andre...The size 4 comments were not in reference to Andrej, he's clearly tiny.<br /><br />The analogy: if a female model with hips like the exaggerated proportions of the JPG dress tried to book jobs, no one would cast her for blue-chip gigs. Essentially, such stylized hyperfemininity is really only permitted in fashion when it's a rather beautiful boy doing the performing--which speaks more to body policing in the female modeling industry than anything else.hilary beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303946101184775312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post-34718879272820461632011-01-29T14:08:29.224-05:002011-01-29T14:08:29.224-05:00andrej doesnt have a size 4 body it's size 0 t...andrej doesnt have a size 4 body it's size 0 to 2 i recently did a shoot with him where we measured him...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post-31200515540005853912011-01-27T18:24:45.884-05:002011-01-27T18:24:45.884-05:00"HOWEVER, personally i was most offended by t..."HOWEVER, personally i was most offended by the intensity of that gaussian blur filter photoshop hack job over parts bieb's face. is he starting to have acne?!??!! also, uncle terry took that photo. scary."<br />omg I just got a good look at his neck D: and the whites of his eyes D: WHY DOES UNCLE TERRY ALWAYS HAVE TO BARGE IN DID YOU SEE WHAT HE AND PARIS DID TO VOGUE TURKEY THIS MONTH????<br /><br />I wouldn't be surprised re: Tisci's shockmongering...Givenchy's S/S '11 ad campaign kind of bothered me for the same fetishy reasons. Something like he's long admired and been fascinated by albino people and they're "part of his world" and oh look at how ETHEREAL it all is, isn't it nice that this albino model can sit side-by-side with Lea T and Antony and Mariacarla and Marina Abramovic and oh what a well-heeled band of misfits--but let's not forget that they're misfits. And there's definitely something..."My Fair Tranny" about the way Riccardo talks about Lea, like he swept her up in this fabulous world of fashion and personally unleashed her glamorous femininity by casting her in the campaign.<br /><br />It's kind of a black hole of wrong, because once you start talking about the exaggerated hips and you realize no female model would get through the door with that shape, then you get angry that one size 4 model is heralded as "The Return of the Real Woman" and Victoria's Secret models at Prada! Cups runneth over amongst the same kind of anonymous pale Eastern European teens who look like the teen male models the New York Times and Maxim hate, and isn't it kind of creepy how prepubescent fetishy it all gets, but would we rather the rugged real men or JPG's next drag superstar? All the body/youth/presentation politics ends up kinda contradicting itself.hilary beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303946101184775312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post-17186062828775100002011-01-27T17:59:02.611-05:002011-01-27T17:59:02.611-05:00"I kind of expect a whole lot of sharp-jawed ..."I kind of expect a whole lot of sharp-jawed girls in suits eventually showing off their tits."<br />ahahhahah so true<br /><br />yeah all of this has been bugging me out a lot lately.<br /><br />the lea t thing just gets weirder and weirder -- roxie and i were talking about this and there's this weird undercurrent where it comes off almost as if tisci's engaging in a little bit of shockmongering himself, like he was all I WANT ME A HOT TRANNY MODEL and gets off on how unuuuuusual and progresssssive it is or something and also talks in these weird ways in interviews as if he "made" lea? like, dude, yeah, fashion's a circus, but that doesn't mean it's cool to make lea t a circus freak for givenchy's image, you know? there's something marginalizing about the fixation, and that azn-fetishy couture collection made me even more suspicious. which again i guess is still better than turning a blind eye to everything that isn't straight and white, but there's something not cool about it. and to say nothing of all the fantastically inappropriate/poor-vocabularied media commentary about the whole thing.... i read a few things that referred to andrej in JPG as 'transgender' which last time I checked is, you know, slightly different than having someone else pay you to walk down a runway in drag.<br /><br /> can we also note that in all these instances they really exaggerate the illusion of "curves"/slim waist/full thighs and hips which, like, we'd refuse to cast any female model if she was actually shaped like that? 'take your hips and go home, andrej, good luck with that size 4 body of yours, maybe victoria's secret will like you or something, or you can do some commercial stuff for JC Penney maybe?' i can't even come up with what's going on there with that many levels of performativity where we permit/expect/enjoy more femininity from men in drag than we do from women. which seems like it should be some sort of statement about perfomativity/flexibility which is supposed to be liberating, but it really just ends up being another depressing restriction/more body police/blahdbyblah.<br /><br />HOWEVER, personally i was most offended by the intensity of that gaussian blur filter photoshop hack job over parts bieb's face. is he starting to have acne?!??!! also, uncle terry took that photo. scary.meg // morningmidnighthttp://www.morningmidnight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701658036787368849.post-91429463813846863012011-01-27T15:39:31.356-05:002011-01-27T15:39:31.356-05:00I'm quite annoyed by the JB cover! I don't...I'm quite annoyed by the JB cover! I don't want him near LOVE haha. <br /><br />http://aforteforfashion.blogspot.comLaura.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09104372372767159832noreply@blogger.com