Magazines Body Image
The Fashion industry and body image Fashion is a popular style trend that people follow. And this trend mostly becomes known through the representation on magazines and fashion shows. While magazines and fashion shows have a big impact on making fashion trends known, it also has some problems on the way it represents it. Fashion is well known to link beauty with body image, particularly with thin body image and that influences people with a fuller body image to not have confidence and being insecure about themselves.
The Fashion industry interconnected with advertisement. Fashion cannot go anywhere without the help of advertisement. Magazines are one way of getting a fashion trend become known through the society. While magazines play a huge …show more content…
This caused women who have a fuller image to think that their body is not considered as beautiful and desirable by the society. (Arroyo 247).
Other than magazines and other ways of advertisement, fashion industry is focuses on the thin body images by the fashion designers themselves. Nancy Rudd claim “through professionals in the fashion industry have commonly been identified as a main disseminator of the thin body ideal.” Students are taught to make their design focusing on people with ideal body image and taught that the market for the plus- sized society is not profitable and that it limits their creativity if they are designing for plus sized people.
Even though the issue of introducing thin body as the ideal image through the fashion industry still did not get a solution, some models like Ashley Graham broke the boundary and appeared on TV and fashion shows to let people know that plus sizes models are beautiful too and that fashion is not only for thin models. According to Susan et al, Graham claims that “‘I’ve had success in breaking the mold in the fashion industry…my hot body. It sounds a little misogynistic, but I also think that it’s great because I have a body that the average-size American woman has. And I’m using it to let other women know that you are beautiful.’” (64)
The Fashion industry interconnected with advertisement. Fashion cannot go anywhere without the help of advertisement. Magazines are one way of getting a fashion trend become known through the society. While magazines play a huge …show more content…
This caused women who have a fuller image to think that their body is not considered as beautiful and desirable by the society. (Arroyo 247).
Other than magazines and other ways of advertisement, fashion industry is focuses on the thin body images by the fashion designers themselves. Nancy Rudd claim “through professionals in the fashion industry have commonly been identified as a main disseminator of the thin body ideal.” Students are taught to make their design focusing on people with ideal body image and taught that the market for the plus- sized society is not profitable and that it limits their creativity if they are designing for plus sized people.
Even though the issue of introducing thin body as the ideal image through the fashion industry still did not get a solution, some models like Ashley Graham broke the boundary and appeared on TV and fashion shows to let people know that plus sizes models are beautiful too and that fashion is not only for thin models. According to Susan et al, Graham claims that “‘I’ve had success in breaking the mold in the fashion industry…my hot body. It sounds a little misogynistic, but I also think that it’s great because I have a body that the average-size American woman has. And I’m using it to let other women know that you are beautiful.’” (64)