Short video of model make up and post/Campaign for Real Beauty

[heller_harris]

This <a href="http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/home_films_evolution_v2.swf">

site </a> campaigns for "real beauty" and aims to stop the use of dangerously

thin models. The clip shows a model who is made up, coiffed and then

photographed. The image is then photoshopped, with the usual enhancements, plus

a couple that I don't usually do - like stretching her neck, dropping her

shoulders and enlarging her eyes. <p>

I guess I'm part of the problem, because as much as I deplore the use of

anorexic models, I immediately made a mental note of the skeletal "enhancements"

for use another day...

[nick_hazidis]

What can I say but.... ditto

[h._p.]

Well, for myself, I've always liked healthy rounded lasses. A chap I worked with a little while ago, suggested that the fashion was started by homosexual art directors attempting to make the girls look more boyish to accord to their own tastes. That sounds a bit too 'conspiracy theory-ish' to me. I think it's more to do with the fashion artists of the 'twenties and 'thirties who started a trend of glamourising extremely elongated impressions of dresses. If you look at some of Cecil Beaton's drawings at the national gallery ( http://www.npg.org.uk/live/beatondrawings2.asp ) you can see what is perhaps part of the genesis of this movement.<div></div>