just as long as the clothes look good

“Designers like the skinny guy,” said model Stas Svetlichnyy of Russia at a Duckie Brown show. “It looks good in the clothes and that’s the main thing. That’s just the way it is now.”

“It looks good in the clothes…”. Because male models, like their female counterparts, are just life-sized dress-up dolls.

And forget unhealthy body imagery and eating disorders among models, not to mention the rest of the population who feel they must adopt similar eating and obsessive exercise patterns in order to actually fit into these clothes.

As long as the clothes look good.

Read the full article at the New York Times.