Model Casting F/W 16.17

[anlabe32]

So happy to see Laura at Celine! One of my favourite moments so far this season. Hope this means more success for her.

Balenciaga was one of my least favourites..

 

[Runabout]

So true! Vogue Paris posted an article saying "Gigi Hadid, queen of NYFW runways?" I was like, calm down, Lia Pavlova is the real queen with 23 shows, Gigi did 20 less

Kendall and Gigi will always steal the limelight for granted in almost every media, making others' hard work irrelevant. The world will always reserved for both of them and they will be the last models standing. :v

This is the thing I hate the most about fashion-centered mainstream media actually. Feel bad for Lia...

 

[Magic Spells]

I'm fully support all this season's comebacks: CBN, Ruby Aldridge, Marina Perez and now Laura. Wonder who could be next.... Patricia van der Vliet? lol.

 

[Runabout]

I'm fully support all this season's comebacks: CBN, Ruby Aldridge, Marina Perez and now Laura. Wonder who could be next.... Patricia van der Vliet? lol.

THIS ONE! Please do!!!

CMIIW, we had Ksenia Kahnovich returning last season, this season should be hers! They're basically two of my favorite models in the 2010s and the ones that made my addiction to Fashion Weeks!

 

[gossiping]

^ kremi too

 

[FashionFanatico]

can we discuss about the political correctness mania nowadays that rules all runways. i am for diversity and i want to see all different kind of women everywhere - not only on the catwalk.

but we have to calm down in 2016 if a designer with a vision just want to send a special look of woman that fits his clothes of now down the runway. all of the models at the Balenciaga Show were unique and kinda strong in her Beauty. that is what you call a vision.
i would find it much more racist just to throw in some asian or black token models in it - just to make everybody happy. would this change the world we are living in? it would be fake and wrong. so i applaud for Demnas choice of model - they look real, they look good.
Maybe next time he will choose a cast full of all black or asian or hispanic models for his next collection - and this will be the same strong message too. please get a life out of fashion all you fake diversity upsetters here!

 

[anlabe32]

I am also for diversity unless it seems forced like it did for the past few seasons.

This season though, the diversity does seem less forced. We see different kind of races and also more natural hair.

I do agree that Balenciaga was also diverse. Not so much racially, but beauty wise it was really strong.

 

[FashionFanatico]

^exactly! the cast at Balenciaga WAS very diverse.
just different. Open your minds people.

i'd rather take this cast over all bland model castings on repeat - where you can see all the same girls again and again and again...

 

[TheoG]

Agreed, it was diverse in the sense of women that made up the cast. They ranged in age, height, and body shape. But I do think its fair for people to be upset about the casting racially. Demna, casting at Vêtements and now at Balenciaga has solely been white women.

 

[SpeakThatJDunn]

^exactly! the cast at Balenciaga WAS very diverse.
just different. Open your minds people.

We need to open our minds because they casted some white girls who were 3 inches smaller in height than the other white models?

naomihitme.tumblr.com

 

[Edie123]

When your vision of fashion only includes white women, you should absolutely be called out on it. It doesn't make people "fake diversity upsetters" or mean people need to "open their minds". And for the record, with Demna, we're not only talking about one show here...it's a pretty consistent point of view.

 

[mikose]

 

[Vitamine W]

UGH this thread is getting tiring again re: diversity. Claiming the Balenciaga cast was diverse and at the same time a very focussed vision of beauty is contradictory to say the least. Im sure you can find a similar stark beauty in different races. Yes forced or token diversity sucks even more but defending his casting is very shortsighted and bordering on ignorance. I do understand an all white, all black or hell what do I care an all handicapped cast if that is your vision for a collection but do not defend his casting when all he ever presented is an exclusive caucasian cast which appears to be his modus operandi. Besides nothing in his collection explains or even suggest that this is purely a vision for stark looking white women.

 

[FashionFanatico]

^ why you waste your time and write so much about it if you think this discussion is boring. don't get it.

 

[Marc10]

can we discuss about the political correctness mania nowadays that rules all runways. i am for diversity and i want to see all different kind of women everywhere - not only on the catwalk.

but we have to calm down in 2016 if a designer with a vision just want to send a special look of woman that fits his clothes of now down the runway. all of the models at the Balenciaga Show were unique and kinda strong in her Beauty. that is what you call a vision.
i would find it much more racist just to throw in some asian or black token models in it - just to make everybody happy. would this change the world we are living in? it would be fake and wrong. so i applaud for Demnas choice of model - they look real, they look good.
Maybe next time he will choose a cast full of all black or asian or hispanic models for his next collection - and this will be the same strong message too. please get a life out of fashion all you fake diversity upsetters here!

But can you please explain to me what kind of "vision" lies behind having a caucasian standard of beauty? So you're saying it's ok that the "special look of woman that fits his clothes" is of a caucasian woman? I'm sorry but that's absolutely stupid to even say it out loud. "unique and kinda strong" is not a quality exclusive to caucasians.

And I most certainly live a "life out of fashion", and I think that's exactly why I will always criticize this white supremacy mentality on the runways. I live in a community and a country where hardly anyone looks the same as me: from skin colour, to their ethnic background to their hair and features, and I was lucky enough to be thought that is beautiful. And i'm not sure that Mr Gvasalia and the people around him share that same opinion.

 

[nostalghia]

I think it's ridiculous that anyone would argue that Balenciaga was diverse. It wasn't. Designers and casting directors nowadays seem to think that an 'edgy' look can substitute for racial diversity -- it can't. Just because your model has some abnormal haircut, etc, that doesn't make her 'diverse'.

 

[givengod]

givenchy was beautiful, never gets be boring

 

[FashionFanatico]

to Marc10: if you calm down - and read carfully what FashionFanatico has written - you maybe will understand that he supports diversity in EVERY way possible! there is so much fake political correctness in this world. it's not helping the real problems at all. all this outcrying is just plain stupid. if you really want to change our society for the better then join a social project, go into politics, go out and fight for human rights, join social programs, help minorities and refugees in real life, do SOMETHING that makes really an impact for diversity!

But writing to be more diverse on a Fashion Site that is not open for EVERYBODY is just really hypocritical.

 

[mikose]

Now I know why natalie,Lara,Ana and karen don't walk the show.
It is painful for model to walk in labyrinth.

 

[FashionFanatico]

I think it's ridiculous that anyone would argue that Balenciaga was diverse. It wasn't. Designers and casting directors nowadays seem to think that an 'edgy' look can substitute for racial diversity -- it can't. Just because your model has some abnormal haircut, etc, that doesn't make her 'diverse'.

you don't get the point. nobody talked about hair.
does everybody nowadays has to make the same fashion shows with the same models? a safe balanced mix of the models that walk all the others show? i dont think so. THAT is boring as hell. i don't want this kind of sameness. and i just want to get it right: my boyfriend is dark skinned - i am white, but with south east asians, spanish and danish origins. My friends have all skin colors you can dream of.
FUll STOP!