May. 24, 2012 at 7:44pm with 2,015 notes
Reblogged from lovingdamonsalvatore
Are we supposed to compare ourselves to models?I'm not being a jack assI'm just wonderingmaybe because I was a modelso maybe this is my privilege talkingbut I always thought that since we all knew that fashion modelsrepresented like 2% of the entire world's populationand commercial models maybe lik 5-8%that as non-modelswe weren't actually supposed to feel horrible that we didn't look like themwe were just supposed to goOoh shiny!I want to buy thatagainthis could be my privilege talkingbut the model isn't selling the clothesthe fucking clothes are supposed to sell the clothesthe model is just wearing them because clothes can't stand up by themselvesbut as soon as they can make them do thatthey'll stop paying modelstrust mepaying models is like the last thing these people want to do

Ian Somerhalder talks about women in society and the fashion industry.

(Source: rosedaws)