Good riddance! Anorexic models no longer reign in Spain…

This week, as the madams of modeling in New York are flaunting their obsession with anorexic girls at their annual fashion bacchanal, the matrons of fashion in Spain announced that such sickly-looking mannequins will no longer be strutting their dry bones at Madrid’s annual fashion week, which begins on Monday.

Of course, for years, I have proselytized (in a truly dispiriting crusade) to deprogram the minds of women (especially young ones) from the brainwashing, by media and fashion conglomerates, that has them convinced that a skinny girl with no boobs and no hips is the paragon of a healthy beautiful woman. Therefore, no one greeted the Madrid announcement with greater enthusiasm and hope than I did. (Click here to read my most recent sermon attempting to debunk this skinny-woman mystique.)

Alas, Madrid is hardly the fashion trend-setting capital of the world. And I fear that, instead of setting a new tone, its fashion vanguards will suffer a backlash from fashionistas in places like New York and Paris who seem terminally vested, commercially and psychologically, in anorexic models. Indeed, here’s the certifiably insane reaction of one New York madam to their sensible announcement:

I think it’s outrageous. I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women, but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer….[this] move could harm careers of naturally gazelle-like models.

- Cathy Gould, of New York’s Elite modeling agency

Think about it folks:

This outraged madam is really saying that she would rather promote a (smoking, cocaine-snorting to look naturally gazelle-like) waif like Kate Moss (left), than a naturally gorgeous model like Tyra Banks (right), as an iconic beauty to be idolized and emulated. (And, never mind the race thing….)

But is there any wonder that, despite her egregiously unhealthy lifestyle, Moss remains the most coveted and highly-paid model in the fashion world today?

NOTE: Click here to see why I don’t think Jane Fonda’s hypocrital and self-righeous preaching about “scary skinny” models and actresses is helpful to our crusade….

anorexic models, Kate Moss