As the snow begins to thaw out across the Northern United States and bright green blades of grass peek through the soggy dirt, you should be reminded to think about the coming Summer’s swimwear and how to get rid of the excess celebratory season’s weight, toning up and maybe even think about attacking that bikini line. To give you the motivation, here’s a little eye candy!
During this enthralling series of what’s considered the latest in fashion, take note of how many monokinis we still see today … a style I first did in 1989 and everyone said it would never catch on because one piece swimwear was over … and young girls would never wear them! Ha!! Oh yeah … and for the love of God can we please get models to stop walking like a backward tilting, uncoordinated giraffe trying to hold a cherry between its butt cheeks … it’s just plain wrong!
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After reading Stuart’s post regarding the Spring/Summer 2011 Swimwear videos I can’t but comment on a very valid point he made about runway models.
If you are a designer and wish to do a fashion show, or if are model, or know a model that does runway work, listen up! I have been designing swimwear and fitness wear for the past 8 years. In that time I have been in roughly 100 fashion shows… Mine or ones put on by others. The single most stress is how the model represents our designs down the runway! While the industry standard is to use Euro type model who are 6 feet tall, and a sickly looking under 100 pounds with no boobs, that is not realistic, nor my vision of my designs!
Most big productions or runway events will employ a runway coach who will teach models how to walk down the runway. How do they teach models to do this? Well let me paint this vision… You have to pee super bad so you walk by squeezing the legs and butt cheeks together. Now add walking with a corn cob up the bum. One leg in front of the other in straight line and twist the hip with every step. Watch the Videos Stuart posted here as well.
I have two choices… 1. Spend lots of time to unteach them how they were taught and reteach them to walk naturally. Or 2. find models who have no prior runway experience to show off our designs in a natural was as if the model was home and walking downa beach. I have even went as far as to find models who were all right at 5 feet tall. Boy, that will really piss fashion show organizers off! But as Stuart stated, it is just unrealistic and I also hope that someday it stops!
Nice to see in the opening of the second video that the January 27, 1967 cover of Life lives on.