My future career is so very connected to the fashion and beauty world. I aspire to be a fashion/beauty industry journalist. I want to be that stylish gal sitting in the front row at a fashion show of some amazing designer like Proenza Schouler or Zac Posen, with my laptop or pen and note pad and my handy dandy Star Bucks Venti Frappuccinno. I want to be the next Kate White! Or Cindy Lieve!
As someone who is immersing herself so deeply into the treacherous path that is fashion, I understand that there are villains in every nook and cranny. They come in the shape of editors and other journalists, and fashion designers, but the scariest ones are the ones that I would be writing for. The consumers.
And this leads me to my question: Why is it that women, and some men, have to find fault with a person’s appearance, specifically? Why can’t a women of a certain size just be accepted and admired. Why does one need a preference for curves or for straight lines?
And why is it that women dress to look curvy when they aren’t curvy and dress to look skinny when they aren’t skinny? There’s this one body ideal that everybody wants to achieve, but no one can agree on which shape it is.
I hope, for the future, we can all appreciate our shapes.
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