Women's Fashion And Designers

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Let's see if I can truly "start new drama":

“Let’s stop shaming the situation,” he says. “A 14 is beautiful. She doesn’t always want to be a 12. Women want to have boobs and butts. They love having curves, and the designers should be embracing that too.”

 

Campbell says this attitude also exists because of misogyny in the fashion industry. “Clothes are being made by gay men for women,” he says. “A lot of gay men think, ‘Let’s make everyone look like a boy.’ That doesn’t celebrate a woman’s body. A lot of times gay men design clothes in abstract way without keeping in mind a woman’s figure.”

 

https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/how-a-plus-size-girl-navigates-the-pin-thin-world-of-fashion-133830151.html

 

The problem is Christopher Campbell calls out misogyny, which I think is accurate, and then lays the issue at the feet of Gay fashion designers. I think it's the first time I've heard of Gay men being accused of hypermasculinity.  I think it's clear fashion designers of all stripes, Gay men or not, have designed some fantastic clothes for men and women. Yes, some bad also, but meh. Stereotypes often don't hold -  the exception doesn't prove the rule.

The misogyny of the fashion industry is tied up with the men at the top who run, control and invest in the whole corporate enterprise. They dictate beauty through fashion and media outlets on the basis of the women they find sexually attractive. It's like porn - the men with the money at the top say what women they want attached to their label and 'image'. It's no use necessarily laying all the blame with the person making the film for them

Gay men don't have any sexual capital that seeks to manipulate how women look. I think they'd be more likely to design something women actually say they like, need and want. I would suggest designers, whoever they are,  can't always do it  because they work within strict parameters placed upon them. Fashion is a capitalist and fickle enterprise, image is everything. The industry labels what they can bear to market, produce and sell to those who demand it.

So why aren't there people cashing in on fashion for people outside the size zero dystopia? Maybe because the industry and the shops they do contract deals with freeze them dead out of the market. I'm not sure many materialist consumers are ready for the illusion of their size bubble dieting and shopping to be blown up rather yet either. Until consumers change their attitudes, shopping habits and demand things more to change then it won't.