For those who wonder how top models manage to stay so slim, the former editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Vogue lifted the veil over this mystery and told what deprivation the icons of the model business go to keep the waist thin and the shape turned.
Christie Clements, sensationally fired as Australian editor of Vogue last May, wrote a scandalous book about the fashion industry called The Vogue Factor, which reveals the professional secrets of models.
For example, some models eat tissue paper to feel full, starve themselves for several days in a row, and then go to the hospital and take a course of droppers, and are often so weak from hunger that they barely stand on their feet.
The author also explains such concepts in the fashion world as “ordinary thinness” and “Parisian thinness”. The last one is when an already skinny model reduces her figure by another two sizes in an effort to get on prestigious foreign shows.
In her provocative book, Clements describes one of the shoots, which lasted three days, and one of the models has never eaten during this time. On the last day, she barely stood on her feet.
Clements has worked at Australian Vogue for 25 years. Her dismissal was unexpected and sudden. Clements herself calls it simply “regime change,” but some critics say her book is revenge on the publishing house.
