The fresh-faced Polish teenager Monika Jagaciak (aka Jak) had a seriously hard time last year, when she was touted as the 'face' of Rosemount Australian Fashion Week.So much so, the wee thing (who was 14, yes just FOURTEEN at the time) didn't make it to Australia, after calls to make an age minimum of 16 for models who show off threads at the annual frock week.
Well, I noticed that Jak's youth hasn't stopped the Calvin Klein group from using the chisel-jawed, Eastern European (and remarkably beautiful model) as a 'face' for its autumn/winter collection. While she has already been a poster girl for French fashion house, Hermes and starred in the February runway show for the Calvin Klein, the CK imagery has just, officially, hit the Antipodes.
Check out the below link for the furore that started when 'Jak' was touted as the 'face' of the Oz Fashion Week last year. At least she is now well over one-year older . . . or do you reckon she is she still too young to be a clotheshorse who sells frocks to a older audience?
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Did you see Paul Sheehan's piece on Anna Wintour this morning? It had this wonderful par:
It is not until you see the top models in large numbers and in real life that you appreciate the freakish impossibility of the world that fashion holds up as the ideal for women. The models are even younger and more giraffe-like in the flesh than in print or on film, a breed apart, an absurd body-type to portray as the ideal. There is something deeply cynical about an industry that presents its products on bodies so different from 99 per cent of its target market.
Sorry I have taken so long to get back to you, but have been at the Brisbane fashin festival with Paul's aforementioned 'giraffes'!
it was a fantastic piece with so many salients points but the majority of fashion industry 'leaders' will continue to use 'clotheshorses' as they, ever so simply, showcase their clothes without all the lumps and bumps of 'most' of the population, including this commentator! That may sound callous but that is the reality of the often unreal world of fashion. mh
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