Good riddance! Anorexic models no longer reign in Spain…

This week, the madams of fashion in New York are flaunting their obsession with anorexic girls at their annual bacchanal. By instructive contrast, the matrons of fashion in Madrid are refusing to allow such sickly-looking mannequins to strut their dry bones at theirs, which begins on Monday.

For years, I’ve been in the vanguard of a truly dispiriting crusade to deprogram the minds of women (especially young ones) with respect to body image. Because fashion conglomerates have conspired with mass media to convince them that a skinny girl – with no boobs and no hips – is the ideal of feminine beauty.

Therefore, nobody greeted Madrid’s insistence on featuring only healthy-looking models with greater enthusiasm (and hope) than I. (Click here to read my most recent sermon attempting to debunk this skinny-woman mystique.)

Alas, Madrid is not the trend-setting capital of the fashion world. More to the point, I fear its matrons of fashion will suffer backlash, especially from fashionistas in places like New York and Paris who seem terminally vested, commercially and psychologically, in skeletal models.

Indeed, here’s the certifiably insane reaction of one New York madam to their sensible announcement:

I think it’s outrageous. I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women, but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer….[this] move could harm careers of naturally gazelle-like models.

– Cathy Gould, of New York’s Elite modeling agency

Think about it folks:

This outraged madam is really saying that she would rather promote a (smoking, cocaine-snorting to look naturally gazelle-like) waif like Kate Moss (left), than a naturally gorgeous model like Tyra Banks (right), as an iconic beauty to be idolized and emulated. (And, never mind the race thing….)

But is there any wonder that, despite her egregiously unhealthy lifestyle, Moss remains the most coveted and highly-paid model in the fashion world today?

NOTE: Click here to see why I don’t think Jane Fonda’s hypocrital and self-righeous preaching about “scary skinny” models and actresses is helpful to our crusade….

anorexic models, Kate Moss