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To the fascists of fashion, fat and skinny are just the same; Are you thinking what she's thinking?

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date: 06-NOV-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: To the fascists of fashion, fat and skinny are just the same; Are you thinking what she's thinking?(Features)

Article Excerpt
Byline: REGINA LAVELLEs

FASHION is tyranny. It's an oppression expressed through jutting hip bones and razor-sharp clavicles, in drip -fed coffee and chain-smoked cigarettes and in hollow eyes and vague expressions.

Because fashion doesn't like shape. It likes straight and flat and narrow.

It likes pipe-cleaner legs and concave stomachs and arms that dangle limply from shoulder sockets.

And, for the most part, except for the odd moment in which that changing room mirror - the architect of every woman's misery - renders you almost plausibly attractive in those skinny jeans and a vest, we abhor fashion for it.

Because fashion is an abomination in an egalitarian, universal society. Its foot soldiers are genetic freaks...

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