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World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Sign up for The New Statesman’s newsletters Tick the boxes of the newsletters you would like to receive. She no longer looked like a 14 or 16 year old and fashion thought this was unacceptable. Articles dubbed her outfit the “not so itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny Chanel bikini”. An anonymous editor called her “big, almost bloated” and style headlines sneered “Chanel Spring ’08 Embraces the Big Girl”. In 2007, Ward walked a Chanel show in a denim bikini and fashion media and industry insiders couldn’t handle it. Then her body changed, and all bitchy hell broke loose. She was hired for top campaigns including Burberry and Valentino, and replaced Kate Moss as the face of CK’s Obsession Night. At 17 she appeared on 20 New York runways for designers including Calvin Klein, Vera Wang and Oscar de la Renta. Her fragile body, large, wide-set eyes and blonde hair seemed to be a winning formula, and Ward’s career took off spectacularly. They forged my mum’s signature, and pushed me in front of the cameras.” She appeared on the cover of American Vogue at 16. “When the scout came up to me, I said, ‘No, thank you’.
In an interview with Teen Vogue, she described her scouting as aggressive and unexpected. Gemma Ward was discovered in Perth, aged 14, at an Australian modelling competition called Search for a Supermodel. They are pressured to keep the same measurements as they grow older, and when this doesn’t happen, they are kicked to the curb. The most famous and highest-earning models are often scouted when they are children, adolescents under the age of 16. Where do these women come from, with their height and thinness and angular features? Do they appear, fully-formed, with the correct measurements at age 18, as if emerging from an industry-standard chrysalis? They don’t.
High fashion consistently chooses a very specific type of person to stride the catwalks and appear in the pages of style publications.