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A body to die for: body measurements and BMI values among female and male runway models

Jestratijevic, Iva, Rudd, Nancy A., Ilic, Sanja·2022·Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
DOI 10.1177/0887302x20968893
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Runway models play a central role in creating and promoting cultural beauty and body ideals. However, little is known about body measurements (BMs) and anthropometric health parameters among this modeling population. The main purpose of this quantitative study is to describe BMs and anthropometric health parameters to understand the severity of thinness among models. Secondary industry-reported data were analyzed to quantify female and male models’ BMs and to assess anthropometric health parameters over seven consecutive fashion-week seasons. Low and decreasing BMs and body mass index values, over these years, provide alarming evidence that extreme thinness seriously affects models’ lives and general health. Considering the reach of fashion images and their detrimental effects on consumers, as well as the commonality of eating disorders among professional models, this study implores scholars in the field of clothing and textiles to consider feasible and compelling scholarly initiatives and cross-disciplinary collaborations to uncover problem solutions

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  • The Western ideal female body has become exaggerated in the ultra slim bodies found in fashion models and in social media trends of thinspiration and bonespiration.

    “This has become exaggerated in the ultra slim bodies found in fashion models (Tovée et al., 1997; Jestratijevic et al., 2020), and in its most extreme form has manifested in the social media trends of thinspiration and bonespiration (Talbot et al., 2017).”

    From The degree to which the cultural ideal is internalized predicts judgments of male and female physical attractiveness (2022) · cites this paper as Jestratijevic et al., 2020

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Authors
Jestratijevic, I., Rudd, N. A., & Ilic, S.
Affiliations
  • University of North Texas (US)
  • The Ohio State University (US)
  • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Corresponding author
Jestratijevic, Iva
ORCID
Venue
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2020-10-23
Volume
40
Issue
4
Pages
291-307
ISSN
  • 0887-302X (ISSN-L)
  • 1940-2473
DOI
10.1177/0887302x20968893
OpenAlex
W3094417116
Cited by
11
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2
FWCI
0.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
Keywords
runway models, anthropometry, body mass index, male models, female models, fashion industry, body ideals, eating disorders

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