The women are on average MUCH better looking than than the average beauty pageant entrant. I’d also say they are about 200% more pouty.
No bullshit talent contests, answering questions about world peace, world hunger, or thinking of the children. Just skin and lingerie.
Though there were a ton of outfits with wings or feathers, so they are apparently birdlike angels? I suppose the producers decided that it was necessary to distinguish between what would otherwise be an endless procession of just bras and panties. I woulda been okay with that.
The cliche of the fashion show is that it’s a bunch of stupid crap worn by women chosen for their resemblance to coat hangers. If anyone was going to avoid doing that and give us something worth watching, it would be Victoria’s Secret.
IMHO, even VS models seem to be a little too skin and bones and lack well-placed feminine fat storage. Maybe it’s just fond nostalgia, but it seemed like the ones I used to, uh, look at back in the 1990s were softer and a little more naturally curvy.
The show is well done. The models move out and back on stage quickly with lots of camera changes so we don’t notice so much that it’s a bunch of skeletons wearing lingerie. I just imagine those are real women wearing almost nothing.
I do find them attractive, until they pause for too long and I can see the protruding bones and outlines of their atrophied organs behind their skin. It’s not all of them, but anorexia may make them into excellent clothes hangers but also makes them look better with their clothes on, not what I find appealing about a woman’s body.
It’s not just the skin-and-boniness I find off-putting; they’re just such blank slates when they’re modelling.[sup]*[/sup] These may be delightful, charming women in real life, but the standards of a fashion show seem to demand that they put their personalities in cold storage for the duration.
I should say that I didn’t watch the show this year, or any year. I’ve just seen enough clips and previews of such things that I know not to bother. If the fashion industry has changed and lets the models cut loose a little bit, feel free to correct me.
I’d say this wasn’t the case for this show. The women are “supermodels” whose names we are supposedly supposed to know. They project a whole lot more personality than the generally anonymous pageant contestants.
I guess I find the two cases about equal on the artificiality scale; pageant contests go for the classical-flute-and-reading-to-orphans ideal, while models are after a nothing-to-see-in-my-eyes-just-look-at-the-clothes thing. That’s true even for supermodels, when they’re supermodelling.
ETA: Although, I did say to correct me. I just haven’t seen it in any of the previews.
No, I’d say there is attitude is more brash bratty and arrogant. They WANT you to look at them, like they think they make the clothes look better and not the other way around. And they’re right.