These female idols are receiving the spotlight of fans due to their long limbs that emphasize their tall heights and heighten their beauty. If they were all different sizes, it would make it nearly impossible to ever get the collection shown.Have you ever been in awe of someone because of their envious tallness? THAT is the reason they are tall and thin. All designers use the same parameters, so all the models must be able to fit every dress. Fashion agreed on the taller women because they are more visible on the runway. So, the model must fit the dress, not the other way around. The dress you see in Milan is very likely to be the very same dress you see in a magazine editorial. So that means the same dresses have to go all around the world and fit every model on every runway show. Once the buyers see the dresses (fashion weeks in NYC, Milan, London, Paris etc.) they place the orders and the dress is then made in different sizes and quantities to fit the order. It is important to note that no designer goes out and makes 5000 copies of a dress based on the idea that the buyers will indeed buy them. The runway is where the buyers see the dresses and decide if they want to order them, and in what quantity. The designer and his/her team then make 50+ dresses to be seen on the runway. All the designers use the same size models (the reason for which will become apparent in a moment). Most of them are thin and 5′8″ – 5′11″ hips 35” and under. So, a model is brought in as a mannequin for the designer to work with. The reason is when a designer starts to work on a dress, he has no idea if the dress will sell or not, only that he wants to create it. It has nothing to do with aesthetics, attractiveness in photographs, or any of those subjective things. FAN Donald Giannatti, Photographer, Designer, Author, Educator Not only that, at this point most of us in the Western world recognize the visual shorthand for Fashion Model: if we see a tall, thin young woman wearing glamorous clothes, we think “Fashion” immediately, without having to be told. Fashion illustration textbooks even tell budding illustrators to make them 30% taller than a normal person. Since the days of Erte, fashion models have been taller and thinner than the rest of us. Models as young as fourteen show up in New York from Eastern Europe and Brazil, and if they’re tall and have the cheekbones, they can make the twenty-year-old we expect to be modelling look fat by comparison. There is no denying that we live in a culture that is absolutely obsessed with youth, and youth is good-looking! But in a culture saturated with media images of all things youthful, things can get out of hand. Read on, here are what some other opinions: He may feel that a shorter or a plus size models can present his brand better, therefore he must do what is best for his brand. When all is said and done, it is up to the designer to decide what is the best way to present his brand to buyers/clients. This is why most professional people are HORRIFIED when models do the “lean back” or the back walk because it’s about the GARMENT, NOT THE MODEL, the model is a MANNEQUIN, a HANGER. Models should not upstage the designer garments. Designers like tall, thin models because the models should be mannequins, not showstoppers.If someone is sitting high up in the stands, they can still see a tall model. Designers like tall models because when doing a runway show, it’s easier to see the creativity of the garment than on a short model.You can have 3 people size 16 but depending on their body shape, may not be able to fit the same dress, even if that dress is a size 16. As we all know people are shaped differently. Why designers like thin models – If a designer makes a garment that can fit someone size 16 and that Model does not show up, no one else may be able to wear that garment.Example: when walking the finale during a fashion show, if a model is 5’10” and walks in front of a model that is 5’4”, they may not notice the shorter models’ garments. Designers like tall models because if everyone is “basically” the same height and weight it looks better in the presentation or runway show than if you have someone 5’5” and someone 5’10” tall.Designers make what is considered “sample size” because they don’t know how many orders they may receive from a store or Buyer therefore, they don’t want to make many different sizes until they see what the sale ratio will be.Here is the answer I learned while studying Fashion Design at FIT. This is merely an explanation and an answer to the question models ask. Why do designer prefer tall thin models? people have been asking this question forever and with the rise of the “Real Looking Model”, its time someone explained WHY DESIGNERS PREFER TALL, THIN MODELS.īefore reading this, understand times are changing and designers are using more curvy, petite, real people models.
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