Friday, September 23, 2011

Why We Love the Sartorialist

The Five Reasons We Love the Sartorialist 
#1. He Appreciates Natural Beauty
From pale skin to small breasts and freckled faces, the Sartorialist captures an entirely different type of woman than we're used to in North American media.USWeekly, People, and especially MTV give us many females to choose from, but from the celebrities in Street Style snapshots in People to the reality darlings from MTV - think Desperate Housewives, The Hills and the obvious example of Jersey Shore - many of these women are the total opposite of Sart's choices. Big-breasted and bronzed, long-haired and painted with luxury labels, these women often reek of consumerism and  unoriginality.

The turn towards voluptuousness and fuller-figured women is great. However, why must it always be one or the other? The editor of a prominent fashion magazine recently wrote something like, "The age of the all-american blonde, blue eyed, pale skinned woman are over." Curvier, darker-skinned and exotic looking is wonderful, but we have to be careful not to downplay its opposite. Pale girls now think pale skin is unattractive and give themselves skin cancer in tanning beds. Naturally slender girls are made to feel less a woman than those with bigger curves. Balance is key, and the Sartorialist does a wonderful job of capturing the female in all her many types of beauty.




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