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Models aren’t human beings?



So, fashion weeks are over and I am back to my routines now. This time also a model, a normal human being and a model, tripped and fell on the runway at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week while dancing at the end of a designer’s showing. Big mistake!Photographs were clicked and sent to newspaper offices and next morning papers happily carried it. I don’t see why any one has to do such things. It’s not that she fell and broke her legs that it should command news worthiness. In this case she tripped, regained and danced all the way back with rest of the models.

In yet another showing, the dress that the model was wearing was long and it got stuck on her shoe and again the model lost her balance. Later, the designers blamed the model for not walking properly. The designer told me that in the West, models could carry any kind of clothes that the designers make. Wrong.

I have seen many models tripping and falling on the western runways too. I have seen bra straps snapping as well. Once former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins’ skirt fell like a stone revealing her thong-clad back while she was going back from the head runway.

So it’s not that this happens only with Indian models. I remember when at Lakme Fashion Week once a wardrobe malfunction happened, some ignorant media went about saying that the model did it on purpose as she and the designer planned it to get attention from the media and the public. Her bare bottom with the ripped part of the garment was displayed on the front pages of the national media. I haven’t seen or heard a more idiotic interpretation from any one like that. While in India fashion models are given a larger than life image (as opposed to the West, where only the supermodels get this kind of attention), I feel sorry for them in many ways. At times such as the ones mentioned above, where media play it up and designers blatantly blame them for not carrying their creations well (I have seen this time too many ankle length garments with narrow hems that made models strut the runway very slowly and with much difficulty. Imagine, they are professionals and they find it tough to walk in it, then what about the normal clients!).

Like I always said, our fashion industry in the last couple of years has evolved. But the way most of us look at fashion is still in the medieval age. If the industry has to move forward, our perception of looking at the fashion industry need to change. Perhaps, then we can sit back and say that our fashion industry has moved forward. After all, all of us who love fashion make the industry, don’t we?

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 8:29 pm 
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    Some in Pakistan like the LeT and many others are beasts; like our very own Sangh Parivar goupies viz the Bajrang Dal, Ram Sene etc etc.. We cannot kill those beasts, for that would mean killing millions. So the next best thing to do is try to tame them. Now this taming of the beast business is a very long drawn, time consuming and patience-testing one. One has to weild the stick as well as dangle the carrot before them. This is how the US is dealing with Pakistan – culling as well as carassing the target population. One cannot boycott or remain ignorant of a next door neighbour – whatever happens over there impacts us too like earthquakes, floods or cyclones as well as bouts of violence and incidence of extreme poverty and ill-health. Therefore PM Singh is handling the neighbours with the right amount of carassing – we always do the culling when required while calling ourselves peaceful (thats our Chankayaneeti – when our atomic-bomb tests are successful we encode it by declaring the incidence as Buddha smiled – how deadly can be this Buddha’s smile is not hidden from any body). So trade, culture and sports are the tools of taming that we have to use – and when push comes to shove then the Pakistanis have learnt it the hard way many a times that we can beat the shit out of them. Deal with Pakistan from a position of power and strength and yet in a tolerant manner – for that is the way to tame the beast.

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