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Unfortunately, people still stigmatise disability, and clothes worn by a disabled person may not
look particularly attractive to the general media. |
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Modeling is job, an occupation, a position is which one must be qualified. The term "model" sums is
up. A model is representation and is not necessarily a true depiction of what is real. The purpose
of modeling is to display clothing. An audience looking at a disabled person will probably be
looking at their disability and not the clothing....The purpose is defeated. |
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Models are arguably supposed to serve either one of two purposes :
1/ To show how clothes would look when worn by an ordinary person.
2/ To represent a perfect ideal of beauty.
A disabled model wouldn't serve either of these purposes. Disabled people are not typical. Even
among the disabled population, there is a wide variety of disabilities. How clothes look on one
disabled person is completely different from how they would look on another.
Disabled people also, clearly, do not represent an ideal of beauty.
In addition, models are really supposed to show off the clothes. With a disabled model, attention
would inevitably be focused on the model rather than the clothes, defeating the whole purpose.
I think disabled models are a terrible ideal. Almost no one would really want to see them, only put
up with them out of charity. It be would like the Paralympics, a fundamentally misconceived way of
expressing sympathy. |
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08 Jul 2008 16:07
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