End of skinny models?

About time!
NEW YORK — Vogue magazine officialy annouced: There will be no more work for underaged and skinny models. The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to project the image of healthy models, according to a Conde Nast International announcement Thursday.They agreed to "not knowingly work with models under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder," and said they will ask casting directors to check IDs at photo shoots and fashion shows and for ad campaigns.
Looks like the era of unhealty ideal of superskinny models is coming to its end. 
The era which was bringing for years the ideal of superskinny body to be considered beautiful and caused  models dying from anorexia and milions of young girls with damaged confidence, who believed to be ugly just because their weight wasn´t below a certain Body Mass Index.A good friend of mine, who is a model  and myself often encountered the problems set up by this standard where everything above size 0 was considered "overweight".  Still there will be unhealty standart remaining, but it´s a big step.
American, French, Chinese and British editions of the fashion glossies are among those that will start following the new guidelines with their June issues; the Japanese edition will begin with its July book.
The primary fashion organizations in Italy and Spain banned catwalk models who fall below a certain Body Mass Index level, and earlier this year, Israel's government passed an anti-skinny-model law.

Still, there is persistent criticism that the fashion world creates a largely unattainable and unhealthy standard that particularly affects impressionable young girls and we can hardly expect coming back to the ideal of Rubens´sThree Graces. Or could that happen, that the world will turn to another extreme? In the history there were different types of beauty, not to mention that everybody consideres different things pretty.

In the end the real beauty comes from inside.  

I ♥ SHOPPING: Why should we buy black shoes

Today I went into the town for little shopping. I was after a nice pair of black shoes and came across lovely purple pair of heels.They were gorgeous and even fit well, but I ended up buying black ones. When it comes to us women, there is nothing we enjoy more than trying on gorgeous shoes which we are not going to buy anyway because : the don´t fit us properly or they do not match anything we have in our wardrobe. No matter how much we desire to buy those gorgeous red or purple or golden  shoes with high heels, we eventually end up buying flat black  shoes because they

are more comfortable  and they do match most of the garments in our wardrobe. But even black shoes can look gorgeous. For example those ones I bought today are lovely,sexi, high heels yet comfortable and match eveything in my wardrobe.

So when buying new shoes, what´s more important to you? Design or comfort? Can a woman only be sexi in high heels which cause her lot of pain, whilst she is trying her very best to hide the facial expression of a fashion martyr.

Fortunately for us women even flat shoes can be sexi and fun to wear. Important is not only the design, but the shoes must fit and somehow match our personality - we have to be comfortable with them and feel sexi and cool about them, even if we are wearing trainers. Just like clothes they must become our extra layer. They have to be convincing.

There is no general advice when it comes to buying shoes. You know that feeling when you pick up a gorgeous pair of shoes, which you have seen in a magazine and it costs half of your month salary, you try them on and even though they are not very comfy, you come over to the counter and purchase them.You come home, knowing that tommorow you have to go work and you are definitely NOT going to waste your new gorgeous Fiorangelo shoes for that. You decide to wear them to the date with your new boyfriend, and naively believe that you are going to be irresistable. But when you come to the nice restaurant for romantic dinner, you realise you can´t even walk properly and you your "catwalk" it´s far away from what we see on the runway shows. You look and feel insecure, you stumble, fall over and romantic dinner is ruined, not to mention that the beautiful, expensive shoes are damaged. You start to think that maybe it would have been much wiser to buy those simple black shoes instead. At least they would fit you better. More is less and what looks gorgeous doesn´t always do the right job. As the great Ralph Lauren said: Women should not look like fashion victims.

So ladies, good luck with all your future shopping and hope you always pick the best choice for you.

  

Cooooler

Inspiration for my latest illustration was a cheeky sexi girl who doesn´t bother about problems, is cool and attractive and always enjoys herself. She loves the taste of adventure, cool cars and of course summer- time of parties, fun and colours- the best choice for this season-orange, green, red, nectarine.

Casual

When thinking about casual fashion trends for summer the first think which comes on your mind is an airy summery dress perfectly suitable for superhot days. Unfortunately we don´t always get the typical summer weather. For colder days is ideal an outfit which contains of a casual jacket, coloured throusers and a casualdraped scarf, alternatively a sexy painted dress combined with leader jacket. It´s is a mix of elegant and sporty look. Green is colour which relieves stress and brings positivity and also one of the must have colours for summer 2013.

Nasty, sweet, queen

Inspiration for this illustration was a woman with two faces. At one side she is deadly sexi, angel beauty. But also there is something wild about her, something cruel, even nasty and these two sides of her create an incredible personality that swallowes every little angel. This is her. She is calm and she is angry, Sheis gorgeous and deadly. The real her hidden in the red dress.

Princess in black&white