{"id":2133,"date":"2011-06-15T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2011-06-15T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:10:58","slug":"edinburgh-college-of-art-champions-body-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/edinburgh-college-of-art-champions-body-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh College of Art Champions Body Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2134\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2134\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/edinburgh-college-of-art-champions-body-diversity\/what_is\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2134\" title=\"All Walks Beyond The Catwalk, image via allwalks.org\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/what_is-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"All Walks Beyond The Catwalk, image via allwalks.org\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/talentmanagementblog\/2011\/06\/what_is-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/talentmanagementblog\/2011\/06\/what_is.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Walks Beyond The Catwalk, image via allwalks.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Being one of Europe\u2019s leading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modelsdirect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">modelling agencies<\/a>, Models Direct is well aware of the debates surrounding body diversity in the fashion industry.<\/p>\n<p>And with the current lack of diversity on the catwalk, it\u2019s an issue that many feel needs to be addressed at the route; education.<\/p>\n<p>In what we think is a hugely positive step towards this, last week Edinburgh College of Art became Britain\u2019s first fashion Centre for Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after the College\u2019s course leader worked with All Walks Beyond the Catwalk &#8211; a campaign that challenges some of the industry\u2019s deeply rooted beliefs about the so called body ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Through this collaboration, fashion students have been training on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modelsdirect.com\/help-advice\/model-types\" target=\"_blank\">real models<\/a> varying in shape and age, as well as on traditional mannequins.<\/p>\n<p>All Walks Beyond the Catwalk\u2019s Caryn Franklin said of the project: \u201cWorking with real human beings rather than training on inanimate mannequins has made a big difference to the understanding of students at Edinburgh College of Art. The fashion industry must begin to understand the power of fashion imagery, and how ordinary women feel about the current narrow and unrealistic body \u2018ideals\u2019 permeating the learning process through to the catwalk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder of the Campaign for Body Confidence Jo Swinson MP added: \u201cFashion designers typically learn their craft on super-skinny models and tiny mannequins, which just don\u2019t reflect society\u2019s diverse range of body shapes and sizes. The current lack of diversity on the catwalk places fashion off-limits to the majority of non-model-sized people and reinforces the damaging idea that only one body shape is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy encouraging young designers to connect fashion with the diverse body types of today\u2019s men and women, and embracing reality in a world dominated by a very narrow idea of beauty, Edinburgh College of Art has made a huge step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what we think is a hugely positive step towards this, last week Edinburgh College of Art became Britain\u2019s first fashion Centre for Diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,116,7],"tags":[843,301,302,842],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-men","category-models","tag-all-walks-beyond-the-catwalk","tag-body-diversity","tag-caryn-franklin","tag-edinburgh-college-of-art"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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