Fashionable Bodies?: Interview with Stylist and Model Kaine Anderson
Kaine is a student, model,stylist and set designer who works for The Collective, a fashion production company.
Do you think that the entertainment industries hold any responsibility at all for the way in which the wider public view themselves?
If you would have asked me this a year ago I would have probably given you a definite yes. But now I work in the industry I don’t think that the prime object for the fashion industry is to promote an idealised image. As much as fashion looks glamorous, firstly it is a business and its all about making clothes look appealing to make a profit. And with models being of a smaller frame the clothes are able to hang in the correct way.I do however understand that our society is bombarded with an image of perfection and a majority of people (including myself) have have been sucked into it at some point of their lives.
Do you think that the fashion/modelling industry promotes idealised images of what womens bodies should be like?
I think we all need to take responsibilty for ourselves first. Its down to us to be strong willed and strong minded. Working in the business you see models up close and personal as they say, and you come to realise that they are no where near perfection! Some don't have great skin, some have stretch marks, and some are not as small as you think. Models I have met all eat as well! I personally think that this industry is all an illusion, its about making everything look appealing, and beautiful in order to sell, hence photographers air brushing and retouching images of models, and models wearing mass amount of make up, fake tan, and hair extensions. But be sure to know once that photoshoot/ fashion show is over it all comes off! I think people really need to understand that. I do believe we need to see more people of bigger sizes ( I wont say real sizes, as I hate that term! Everyone is individual and there isn't one REAL size) especially for younger girls who are at an impressionable stage of their lives.
What did you think of Mark Fast's move by using 'plus sized' models, do you think that more designers should do this, or do you oppose the idea?
I dont oppose to the idea for using bigger models if thats what a designer wants to do- its thier collection that they have chosen to showcase. However they see fit to present their collection is completely up to them.
Do you think that there is a place in the idealised images of female beauty/body types for 'real/normal women'?
I do think there is a place for normal sized women in this industry, I think it may take some time to do so, but it can be achieved. Rome wasn't built in a day as they say!
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