{"id":3590,"date":"2007-08-18T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/18\/what-could-be-more-of-a-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T06:01:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:21:42","slug":"what-could-be-more-of-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"What could be more of a challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Runway<\/a> has got everything you’d want in a reality show, interesting challenges, weird people and a look at a different world. In the most recent episode here in NZ the challenge was to design for another contestant’s mother or sister. There was a lot gross about the way things were done; the designers got to pick the relatives, which was a ‘we want skinny people’ version of picking teams at school. But the episode as a whole was fascinating, most of the designers were truly stumped by designing for people who weren’t models, particularly fat people who weren’t models.<\/p>\n

I think it was Robert Best who said “I don’t understand these proportions”. His day job is to design for Barbie.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey, who is a misogynist prick at the best of times, said “If I go then there’s nothing I could have done – I couldn’t have prepared for this challenge.”<\/p>\n

It makes me want to read about the history of fashion to figure out how we got here. Where there is a whole occupation, models, to make women to fit its clothes. We’re so used to this ridiculous artifice that it’s absurdity is only brought home when barbies proportions make sense to a designer, and a woman’s, any woman’s, proportions do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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