Magazines Banned From Airbrushing Celebrities
THE Telegraph reports that magazines could be banned from using airbrushed photographs of celebrities that make them look slimmer.
The fear is that these iamges are promoting unrealistic body images.
Says Tim: At the moment it’s actually a voluntary code of conduct that’s under discussion. And no, of course I don’t give two hoots about whether models are airbrushed or not.
But we do know that we have a government fond of the statement “if the voluntary option has failed we should look to legislation”….
The move follows criticisms by the Model Health Inquiry, which accused editors of acting irresponsibly and promoting a size-zero culture.
The report, released last September, urged the fashion industry to adopt a voluntary code on the use of computer technology to give models unrealistically perfect figures.
Thought everyone was getting cosmetic surgery?
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Airbrushing doesn’t make someone starve. It’s the value system in your real life that makes you starve. For instance - it’s still a middle-class belief that fat people are lazy, stupid, greedy or have emotional problems, hence the huge number of middle-class perfectionists that starve.
It’s only wannabe celebrities that might be influenced by the magazines (but they’ll know about airbrushing) - and no one starves as much as a jockey.