This is one of two new posters from a new campaign for No-l-ita - the photographs were taken by the guy behind a lot of controversial Benetton billboards!!! Find out more here. I know what they are trying to do but to me it is distasteful and almost glorifying anorexia by making this lady a pin up on billboards! I am NOT a fan!
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It's confronting, isn't it. I'm not sure what I think of it - it might have the effect of showing how awful being that skinny is though, which would be a good thing for the modeling world perhaps?
Yeah I hear ya Alison. I have been thinking a bit more about it and I am still a bit unsure. I see they mean well but I don't know if this is the best way to get that message across???
hmm I am still pondering!
I don't know, either. It does seem to me that photos such as this show how repulsive anorexic bodies look, and would hopefully shock sufferers of anorexia into realising that this disease is not about looking good. I don't know how it would work, though, because I don't think sufferers of anorexia have the most reasonable outlook on stuff like this. It's an awful disease.
I think it would have an effect, not so much on the sufferers, but on the people who are involved in the fashion world, in changing their perceptions of what is attractive as far as models go.
I agree with the anorexia experts that were interviewed in the article. It is most likely to make other anorexia sufferers to strive to be as thin as her. Quite the opposite of what healthy people would think.
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