Isabelle Comedienne has died.

[Christine Murray]

Google Translate:< The Isabelle Comedienne pics are are on here.

"No Anorexia"? "Body Fascism"? or Shock Style mocks Art again? - Indymedia Ireland

I remember seeing the pics on IMC a couple of years ago and being quite ill, thus am publishing (very unusually)
the links here. The following is a link to the Search page re the Fashion Industry and the Size Zero debacle.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/fe....vanessathorpe

Interestingly the death of Ms Comedienne has not hit the broadsheets but her poster did in 2007, sure her
emaciated body was like a huge fashion campaign.
Ana Site :Google Translate

[McDave]

it's a pretty cynical business, i.e. the one that brought us heroin chic and the whole concept of the size zero. Neither have I ever been a fan of Benetton shock tactics. Sits too uncomfortably with selling units to not be exploitative.

[Christine Murray]

someone built a multi million euro campaign off that young woman's body, l remember the shock of those images clearly, the skin on her back was detiorating giving a lace effect -

[Christine Murray]

Eating Disorder Resource Centre of Ireland

[JCSkinner]

Bodywhys: Eating disorders

[Christine Murray]

thx JC, am watching a severely progressed girl awaiting residence support at the moment. V hard on her family.

[JCSkinner]

That's rough. There's only something like 3 adolescent eating disorder beds in the entire country, I understand. The wait could be lengthy.

[Christine Murray]

nowt wrong with androgony, indeed many a designer has minted it using females that look like boys to get really rich and afford for themselves all the pleasures of restorative surgery and botox but you'd think a designer would be able to discern healthy thin from radical size 0 sick unwell thin : Karl Lagerfeld: curvy women should stay off the catwalk - Telegraph

[cactusflower]

I think its often a thing about control: people feeling angry and disempowered and their own body is the only thing they feel they have control over. There is research that shows quite a high percentage of people (not all) affected had experienced abuse.