LOVE IS BLIND

‘Everything has been botoxed, lifted, sucked and dyed out of the women that represent the absolute aspiration of real women. The life they lead can not be traced upon their face any longer. It began to make me feel a little sad. Was it time to withdraw the boundaries, to start again even?’ -Katie Grand

Katie Grand’s love affair with the perfect woman is over? The editor’s letter just vents the sadness of our cosmetically injected culture. So… she had decided to eliminate airbrushing, embracing flaws and all, broadening the boundaries of beauty. These values make a refreshing distinction from the average style magazines. But it takes an airbrushed front cover of a fat woman, and 46 pages of digitally enhanced models to reach this nice idea. Did I ever mention the magazine is sister of Vogue, the leading fashion magazine/anorexics bible? When working at Love I was told not to make eye contact with Katie Grand, and not to eat food within the office. They didn’t have a kitchen in the building, and one of the anorexic fashion editors was really disgusted about using a size 12 model in her shoot, so going on an office diet was easier done than said. Ironically the office rules couldn’t be more contrasting to the kind of reality Grand wanted to acquire, they managed to exploit the reality of the fashion industry perfectly. She has answered her own question, it isn’t time, it's just patronising. It is safe to say Fendi and fat will never really be in Love.