Mothers Day arrived early this year in Italy, where Milan Fashion Week is currently taking place. Sundays Dolce and Gabbana show, named Viva la mamma!, was entirely dedicated to celebrating motherhood. A handful of models walked the runway with their children and babies, while Mama by the Spice Girls played. Model Bianca Balti, heavily pregnant with her second child, even walked in the show. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have said the show was an homage to their own mothers.
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Of course, it was nice to see a shape on the runway that falls outside the runway norm and isnt pin-thin. One of the most justified and enduring criticisms of the fashion world is its reliance on ultra thin and, in some cases, unhealthy bodies. So props to Dolce and Gabbana, who asked Balti, clad in a form-fitting pink dress, to walk the runway. Alas, Balti was the only one on the runway who offered anything different, size-wise. (And, as others have pointed out, the models were mostly caucasian.) The rest of the models even the louis vuitton mens purses authentic new mothers shared the typical model dimensions weve come to expect from fashion week.
But theres a destructive side to flashily incorporating mothers-to-be and new mothers in a fashion show. In many ways our culture fetishizes mothers and pregnancy and the fashion and beauty industries are no different. Many womens handbags louis vuitton books magazines and fashion websites have dedicated plenty of space to cataloging pregnant celebrities and their growing bumps. The very same publications devote even more attention to those womens bodies after they give birth, either celebrating the return of a "pre-baby body" or tracking the struggle to bounce back to a so-called ideal.
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