14 DAY TRIAL // Model Daisy Lowe, the daughter of rocker Gavin Rossdale, is featured in the March 2011 issue of ASOS magazine, where she also talks a bit about her childhood, what modeling means to her and what’s the one thing the fashion industry needs right now.
That would be more curvy models, figures that regular women can more easily identify with, the 22-year-old stunner reveals for the mag.
It’s unrealistic to feature only size 0 girls on catwalks, Lowe says. Regardless of what fashion designers think, this is not what the average-sized woman wants to see
“My dream is to see a lot more female shapes in ad campaigns when I look through magazines… my friend was working with Crystal Renn and said she thinks she’s only got a 38-inch hip,” Daisy says.
“Karl Lagerfeld said he was going to embrace her womanly shape and then he just put her face on the ad campaign,” she notes. Lagerfeld being the same man who said only size 0 girls can be REAL models, as a side note.
The first signs that a change is taking place are already there, and Renn is leading the way for a new trend in fashion: the inclusion of curves.
“Girls are starting to have [breasts] in pictures, but I think it still needs to be about the curve. Real women have hips and a [derrière], yet loads of models in shows seem to have neither,” Lowe says.
Useless to point out, she has both.
As for modeling, Daisy says it’s more than just this shallow profession that pretty girls are limited to. For her, it means a way of learning more about people and places and, understandably, she doesn’t want to let this chance go by.
“I’ve learned a lot from modeling. I’m a lot more tolerant. It’s taught me to be bold and be true to myself in a massive way,” Daisy says.
“It’s made me bloody resilient, too, a Trojan, strong as hell, and all the traveling has made me more of an adventurer,” the model states.