Skinny Models Are All Our Fault, Apparently

This is hilarious to me: Apparently, we the consumers are to blame for the skinny model trend. And it's getting worse: Now the male models are shrinking as well.

Jezebel quotes Kelly Cutrone (head of PR firm People's Revolution) as saying that designers are "responding" to what men want. All I can say is that they must not know any of the men I hang out with. I cannot imagine a single one of them turning down a meal in order to fit into a piece of clothing.

Meanwhile, all that hoopla from a few years back about how the industry was going to monitor its models to make sure they were eating seems to have fallen by the wayside. I didn't spot any lanugo this year, but I saw plenty of visible spines and bony sternums.

It's interesting: When I started going to Fashion Week a few years ago, I was prepared to feel like a manatee next to the models. Instead, I felt pretty OK. They're so thin, they don't even seem like something you'd want to compete with. In person, some of them are actually quite frightening.

Also, those real guys I mentioned earlier? The ones who won't give up sandwiches to fit in a shirt? I've never heard a single one say, "What I'm looking for is a girl with a bony chest."

Not to say that everything is about impressing guys, but to be totally honest with you, I'd rather have their good opinion on the looks front than a designer's.