David Bailey against ‘android’ models

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Thanks God someone touched this topic publicly. Modern models do look terrible on runways with all that dead-color makeup and airbrushed hair. And some are too thin to seem real.

David Bailey, a famous photographer, thinks models that pose for Vogue magazine look like “androids”. In David’s opinion, ‘the current state of fashion photography removes all the personality from the women’.

He said:

Any model over the age of 23 has to be touched up these days. 23? It’s f***ing ridiculous but that’s what you have to do for American Vogue and it’s getting the same in Britain.

They want shoots that look like a shop window in Knightsbridge. They always have the same kind of dead-looking girls. It isn’t interesting. Because they aren’t girls. They’re androids. Airbrushed and cleaned up and not real.”

David Bailey also says the problem of modern photography is that photographers no longer show their own style on pictures.

He commented:

You can’t tell any more who took the photographs. You used to be able to tell – there was character to the pictures.

You could tell this was a Newton or that was a Beaton or a Horst or whatever. A Bailey woman has a distinct look. A Bailey woman is a real woman of flesh and blood and sex.”

Hope this statement will do something though I have lots of doubts.