I don't see how this is similar to being against gay marriage. People (at least those in the old world) aren't NOT buying/boycotting designers (unlike some people here) because they don't see models who look like them. Some don't feel that they need resemblance. It isn't going to stop them from making the purchase,…

Brighter colours pop more on darker skin (as do some neutrals - I look washed out in most tans, but put that on a dark skinned black girl and she looks great. On the other hand, she wouldn't look that great in chocolate brown).

OK, fine, non-cosmopolitan/less-educated immigrants (and usually lower-income). Reason why I brought this up is because this board (and western media in general) seems to only put immigrants and/or non-white people (especially non-white immigrants) in this category and pretty much refuses to acknowledge the existence…

Isn't the light skin thing in this case more of a class issue? Don't know much about Thai art, but Chinese, Japanese and Korean art have historically depicted fair-skinned women. In most cultures, women depicted in artwork were usually upper class.

OK, "ghetto immigrant" should have been in quotation marks, but there really isn't another, more polite term.

Yes, colonialism may play a role. In an upper middle class Hong Konger's upbringing, western classical music and the ability to speak English is very important and makes an individual "accomplished." At the same time, they are NOT erasing their own heritage. They aren't supposed to. This continues in their newly…

But do people outside of the US/western countries CARE as much that the models are white? I've never heard my mom (who while lives in a western country, is more Hong Kong influenced than Canadian-influenced) that a runway is "too white." She only says that the girls are too skinny. I've never heard anyone in the…

My problem is HOW Jezebel calls it. It's almost always very American-centric with no regard to how people in other parts of the world feel.

The models don't look most of us anyway, regardless of colour. Maybe I'm just different from other people, but I'd like to see more models of different sizes before I see ethnic diversity. This is just a personal opinion, but I think Jezebel really needs to cut down on the very American (and multigenerational…

What I'm trying to say is that unlike people in the west, people in Asia are buying, regardless of what the model looks like - probably more than the typical (upper) middle class non-white individual in the US or Canada.

@escapefromny: But what of the East Asian/Middle Eastern luxury market? You don't see too many East Asian or Middle Eastern models, yet these regions are big purchasers of expensive brands. I don't think the older generation, at least, seem to care much about what the models look like. They just buy if it fits.

That's why I read a lot of fashion blogs where the writers take pictures of themselves wearing clothes they've recently bought. There's a growing community of bloggers who're my size (petite - some are even shorter and lighter than me!) and we really do help each other make good choices (we even sell each other…

Galliano, the Mel Gibson, David Hasselhoff AND Charlie Sheen of Fashion...

@MoonCat82: But women (in general) don't really lack education privilege anymore. They might not be in the top academic ranks just yet (in terms of getting tenure, etc...), but they certainly aren't NOT going to college. We can't say we're disadvantaged in the case of BEING ADMITTED to undergraduate liberal arts…

The Mail Online says any male with 25%+ Caucasian ancestry qualifies for the scholarship, so there will be biracial/multiracial guys who get this. It's not necessarily people with mostly white ancestry or even people others might consider "white". Someone like say, my HYPOTHETICAL biological son (who'll be half…

When I was in Grade 8 (1992-1993), I wanted a body suit to go with a tartan skirt (non-uniform) because it looked really, really cool. My mom said she wouldn't buy it for me because the bodysuit was difficult to pee in (yeah, it had snaps, but you had to unsnap it)...she also said that it was ugly and a waste of…

Wasn't there a case a few years ago with a movie about Sylvia Plath (starring Gwyneth Paltrow)? The estate/family refused to allow any of her work to appear in the movie, yet it was made anyway.

I live in Canada where it's common to take up to a year off for maternity/parental leave (technically, 15 (??) weeks is actual maternity leave and the remaining 35 weeks (ok, I realize this adds up to 50, but it's one year when you factor in the standard vacation time) If you are adopting or a man, you can only take…

What's next? Outlawing masturbation for men and periods for women? I mean, having a period means that her egg is gone, and therefore unable to potentially become a baby.

It's usually the parents who want big and lavish...I had to talk my parents out of a lot of crazy modern Chinese customs because I find lavish really, really tacky (especially door games..it's gotten really OTT in the past 10-15 years...even at my uber-conservative cousin's wedding, we had guys passing candy to each…