The rise of the body-as-fashion?
Following this year’s Met Gala, with its profusion of naked dresses – think Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez – US site The Cut pronounced that the age of the “couture body” is upon us.
“We’ve officially entered a realm that you might call post-fashion. The body is the new outfit,” wrote Veronique Hyland.
And what a body.
Where once dresses were craftily designed to cinch, hide, accentuate or smooth, they’re now designed for maximum exposure – all the better to reveal all those hours in the gym, and all those activated almonds.
And just as regular folks can’t afford the average Narciso Rodriguez red carpet frock, the red-carpet body is equally unaffordable.
At their beck and call celebrities have personal trainers, nutritionists, chefs and a whole health-food store worth of organic, probiotic, all-natural groceries.
Oh, and if you can’t get it naturally? You can pay for perfectly shaped butt or boobs, or liposculpture on any part of your body that’s not quite “right”.
Today’s models and movie stars maintain the health and fitness regimen of elite athletes.
Gwyneth Paltrow works out for two hours a day, six days a week. She “would rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin” and frequently makes pronouncements on how easy it is to be thin and healthy with the self-described “butt of a 22-year-old stripper” while simultaneously recommending $10 jars of probiotic honey, duck eggs, kale juice and many, many limes.
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The thing is, these are NOT the same workouts as elite athletes. Look at the women on the Matildas team - variety of body types, but none of them are super skinny, because they have muscle bulges at their calves and strong thighs. I find that really fit women (who do sport a lot) tend to have a definitively lean but muscular shape, not super-skinny.