- Target:
- Producers of Project Runway: Heidi Klum, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Frances Berwick
- Region:
- United States of America
We feel that the mainstream media, who's respsonible for our contemporary public sphere, lacks a diverse representation of women of different sizes as well as ethnicties. As a result, our "ideal beauty" is becoming more and more narrow, women are developing a skew sense of self, leading to depression, self-loathing, poor self esteem and eating disorders.
We have seen your epsisode on "Everyday Women" and found it to be an insuffiecent way to address real women and their body image. Many designers notes that it was difficult to design for plus size women and make it beautiful - we feel these comments were not addressed in a responsible manner. We ask you, in your next season to dedicate one episode to responsibly address body image in the media and its affect on real women.
We, the undersigned, call on the producers of Project Runway to feature a challenege focusing soley on designing fashions for pluis sized models. Two viables options we suggest are: design for a celebrity guest star, such as Queen Latifah, or incorporating women from subaltern modeling firms.
Also, we request that a portion of an episode be devoted to discussing body image, health, esteem and the media.
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The Project Runway petition to Producers of Project Runway: Heidi Klum, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Frances Berwick was written by D Choy and is in the category Arts & Entertainment at GoPetition.