[quote]You guys are not getting it. I worked in the fashion industry. Successful runway models are not supposed to be sex kittens. The real professionals are tall gaunt thin no breasts unassuming - even homely - clothes hangers. The point is the fashion, the clothes, not what's underneath.

No, YOU don't get it. No one said fashion models should have curves like Victoria's Secret models, but the models of the 50s, 60 and 70s were much better looking and more charismatic than today's dour walking clothes hangers. Even today's editorial models are not even all that attractive. Karlie Kloss, don't think she's model much anymore, but she looks like a cross between a giant spider and an alien, the Hadid sisters are boring and smug looking.

Most of the others who do editorial layouts aren't very distinctive. There is one tall Chinese model, Liu Wen, who is very unique and pretty, but I cannot name many of today's fashion models because few make any sort of impact. In my field, advertising, I've always thought it was extremely important to use a distinctive model for specific ad campaigns. Today, brands keep using the same dull handful of models, especially those creepy Hadid sisters. You have to wonder if their family has some really awful dirt on fashion executives, because neither is much of a model. Bella's face was created in a plastic surgeon's operating room.

The nepotism models like Kaia Gerber leave me cold, plus she looks ill. A young woman with such dark circles under her eyes? She's obviously starving.

Years ago, models were more attractive, if not super gorgeous, they had a certain' it' factor, they were charismatic and were more unique. Say what you will about Penelope Tree, but she was a very famous in-demand model, as was Jean Shrimpton. Penelope was a British/American who found fame in the UK and Europe. Her mother was the American socialite and activist, Marietta Peabody Tree. Her parents were against her modeling but Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and David Bailey loved her look and made her a supermodel of that era.

Back then, not only did the same models do fashion magazine editorial layouts and ad campaigns, the same models also did runway. Their look was desirable across the board. Not at all today. For example, Jean Shrimpton was one of the faces of Yardley makeup, she was also frequently featured in VOGUE, in both editorial layouts and on their covers.