Aside from being objectified like everyone-else. Maybe some of our fellow
community members can get out of the unemployment and poverty status ?
Anything for the reduction of poverty.
Maria
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From: Poole/McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 9:15 AM
Subject: Disability & fashion shoots
>>Laurence Bathurst wrote:
>>One of my students asked me whether I envisaged a time when
>>disability or impairment will become 'high fashion'. I mean, we have
>>seen the 'anorexic look', and the 'almost dead from heroin look'. Will
>>there come a time when Kalvin Klein pays big money for the
>>'disabled look'?
>
>Alexander McQueen, a fashion designer, was guest editor for Dazed &
>Confused (no. 46,Sept.98) an arty, unisex, fashion journal. He chose to
>work with disabled models in a feature fashion shoot. Each had a physical
>impairment. Different designers designed 'outfits' for each person. The
>images were bold and the models were all involved for their own very
>different reasons. It received at least two write ups in the UK
>press-Guardian & Independent, from a model's point of view & a contextual
>piece on why do it at all:
>
>McQueen said: 'I'm not doing this to save the world or anything...I
>suppose the idea is to show that beauty comes from within... I wouldn't
>swap these people I've been working with for a supermodel. They've got so
>much dignity and I think there's not a lot of dignity in high fashion. I
>think they're all really beautiful. I just want them to be treated like
>everybody else.'
>
>Lucy Poole
>
>
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