Women overestimate men's attraction to thin female fashion models, study finds

"During a debate on body image, held a few years ago in the midst of all the ‘size zero’ press, designer Roland Mouret told a packed lecture theatre at the London College Of Fashion that he preferred his ladies with a bit of meat on them. The designs he creates flatter women of all shapes and sizes but he found that his clothes didn’t hang as intended on models who were simply skin and bones. However, one of the most interesting points he made was that women with shape and curves can look too sexy for the catwalk, drawing attention away from the clothes. It was one of the arguments for many designers choosing super-skinny, uniform models as they were to be little more than clothes horses, displaying the designer’s art in the same way that galleries often hang fine art prints on blank walls."

The argument does make sense because models are supposed to help sell clothes. I do also think what someone else said about fabric flowing and catching the wind makes a lot of sense too.

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