>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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