Model trend alert: Models who look like thin gorgeous versions of "real" people

Newsweek magazine shares that on the catwalks there is a "Rise of the Real People." Apparently, during this upcoming New York Fall 2008 Fashion Week we will start seeing the subtle indications of change with the use of more "real people looking" models on the runways. Here's the description for these new crop of "real people" models:

"The models will still be thin and gorgeous, but they may look more like thin, gorgeous versions of real people than like stereotypical models."

I'm still trying to be optimistic, but sorry, this doesn't cut it fashionistas. I have to file this nonsense under "What kind of spiked fruit punch with zero calories are you people drinkin'?" So, okay. I'm shaking scratching my head. What really then is so different if the models are still boney size 0s? I smell the attempts of a fashionista Jedi mind trick. I enjoyed Gawker's saucy take, "some of these "real people" just look like models with glasses on." In the Gawker post, they have more pics of believable "real people" looking models.

This is like some drug abuser saying, "Okay, I'm not going to use drugs made in a lab any more. I'm only going to get high now using natural drugs because it's more real. The drugs will still be potent, but they will just be more potent versions of drugs like Weed instead of Percocet." People! You're still participating in your bad ways. You're just trying to re-package it into something that "sounds" better.

The problem with today's models is not the models it's the un-realistic, emaciated size 0 look. Who cares if the model has the "look" of my next door neighbor or Heidi Klum. If the woman still looks like she's only had lemon water with cayenne pepper to eat for 6 weeks, then she's still starving herself for fashion, and none of us want to see that any more. We don't care about a model's fashion look, we care about her health.

The day I can go to the fashion week slideshows on Style.com and see even 30% or more of the models with "looks" like the women in How to Look Good Naked, is the day I will believe that there really is a rise of the real people look. The proof is in the print.

[pic from Gawker]