Why do designers hate women?

Barbie has cankles? SRSLY?

So now Christian Louboutin thinks Barbie has cankles.

The French stiletto maker is redesigning the classic American doll to come out here in May.

Considered a genius by Ciara and Angelina Jolie for slathering red lacquer on the bottom of 5-inch heels, Louboutin "found Barbie's ankles too fat," Women's Wear Daily reports.

Never mind that Louboutin's people now insist it's not the ankles, but the arches, that the designer is making Mattel change on his new stick-legged Barbie. This could be the biggest scandal for the toymaker since Pregnant Midge.

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This comes on the, um, heels of Louboutin's fellow Parisian Karl Lagerfeld's declaration that: "No one wants to see curvy women. You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly."

Oh, yes. Very attractive.

Comments

[queek]

...but think of what she'd do for a hamburger!

[southern quebec]

She's dressed for Halloween....right?

[darkblack]

Lagerfeld doesn't want to see curvy women. Chubby-bottomed boys, OTOH...

;>)

[oldtree]

I can't read the stuff yet because I had my eye's dilated. How is Woody Harrelson's new zombie film? Did you review it in this post? I'll check back later when I can read again.

[punaise]

won't you please contribute to end world hunger?

[Monica_A: Winner Like Quinner]

Hey, Watertiger:

What's up with the Praying Mantis?

[donna]

sorry, starvation is not sexy. Nobody wants that.

[Mac from Oregon]

Sorry, I like women with some meat on their bones, less make up and comfortable clothes and shoes. Guess I will never be fashionable, but I will never be lonely either.

[Frogspond]

Ok, so I am a total out dyed in the wool lezbo. That qualifier given, just so you all know that I not only love women, I am one.

I agree with Mac From Oregon on the want some meat on the bones. GeebusHCrust. It looks like if you look at this model too hard she would break. I want someone I can hug and not come out of the experience needing stitches from the lacerations from the sharp points that should have some rounded edges to them.

*pauses to breathe*

Ok. Now that is out of my system...

Darkblack, Oldtree, and Punaise - Awesome!!! Had me laughing.

[sukabi]

Ethiopian chic???

god that's just gruesome.

[HarpoSnarx]

Lagerfeld: an obsure concentration camp in East Prussia?

[Pearl's Girl]

Shouting
Lager lager lager lager shouting
Lager lager lager lager shouting
Lager lager lager shouting
Mega mega white thing mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing mega mega shouting
Lager lager lager lager mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing

[coozledad]

From the architectural features in the background, that was either shot at a miniature golf course, or in Cambodia, where there is a lot of unease about the unquiet dead. I'll bet the locals were firing up a shitload of joss sticks when they saw that poor girl.

[mothra]

You know? No one wants to see Karl Lagerfeld. Ever. At all.

And, as you said the other day, like other designers, this Louboutin fellow needs to deal with his mysogyny in therapy, not on the runway.

[montag]

Geez, that photo looks like the cover of Dr. Joe Mengele's The Darfur Diet....

[punaise]

outweighed by her belt.

sick.

[tellybelly]

When I was a precocious lad in the late 1950's and early 1960, reading the Ladies Home Journals and True Crime magazines lying around the house, I remember there was what would now be called a 'meme' that maintained that the outlandish and bizarre products of the fashion world were the result of 'men who hated women designing awful clothes for them', a/k/a coded homophobia. Even then, I thought that was a crock o' shit.

But now, after seeing this photo and the Gitmo-styled Alexander McQueen shoes you showed us earlier, I am not so sure there wasn't some truth lurking within that insulting viewpoint...

[julia]

But if a teenaged model's career can be measured in a scant handful of years, some of them before puberty (and most of the rest after they've managed to stop it in its tracks), designers can afford to be half in love with easeful Death.

Someone else's, obviously.

[Pursang]

When I go to match.com I always gravitate towards the women who's photo's look like they came either from a Save the Children commercial or a Nazi Concentration Camp.

Sorry Karl but you're about as wrong about this as Sarah Palin is about, well, everything. I feel for women when I see horseshit like this. Be happy with who you are and what you look like and the hell with what assholes like Karl Lagerfeld think.

[moistenedbink]

She has the exact same haunted look as the Auschwitz survivors had when they were liberated. Only she is doing this to herself.
For what? Money? Fame? A kiss from Lagerfeld? I look at her and can't understand how she can even get out of bed never mind work. What a miserable existence.

[Larkspur]

I think we need to rent (or hijack) a helicopter. We have to save this woman. She is obviously being held against her will (not that she is capable of articulating her will at this point, since she only has energy for basic motor functions) and we need to be all fast and stealth-tastic, and we need to liberate her, give her enough sustenance so that we can ascertain her actual goals and aspirations, and then return her life to her own self.

Maybe she will return to starvation chic. But she will be grateful enough for our intervention that she will insist that a disclaimer statement be published with every photo of her. (Maybe something like, "I Am Willing To Die For My Art: Do Not Emulate Me Unless You Also Wish You Were Dead".)

[punaise]

here's a much healthier attitude:

...because the sexiest stance is the one in which we are just OK with our bodies, our flawed, occasionally lumpen, odd and fascinating bodies, and we don't scramble to turn out the light every time a moment heats up, we don’t ruin the fragile friction of a sexual connection because we are too busy hiding underneath covers and worrying about our cellulite (or our abs, or our calf muscles). The sexiest stance is always, always to be comfortable in your own skin, even if your skin is looser and baggier than you hope it might be (and really, whose isn't?).

[robinhood]

is this photo fake? if not please send me the link for it.
thanks

[pansypoo]

please say she has been photoshopping. if not, get her a SAMMICH!

[kathryn'shusband]

punaise's last post: Amen.

I've really nothing more to add.

[Duros62]

Lagerfeld doesn't want to see curvy women. Chubby-bottomed boys, OTOH...

www.instantrimshot.com

Win.

[sparrow]

I never would have guessed that Bulimia nervosa would be the gateway to a fashion modeling career.

[Larkspur]

So how do people go about finding the name of this model? I think the photo elements are too consistent to be a Lauren-style Photoshop job, although it may be possible for an elegant model-head to have been pasted onto a photo of a body lifted from a pro-ana site.

I'd love to see that the model doesn't look nearly so thin in real life. I'd love for this to be a big con.

But I know for sure that this photo is going to be (if it isn't already) an internet icon for girls and women who cannot be thin enough.