French Fashion with a warning label?

When you think of someone whom you know well, there is something else which that person will remind you off. Like for instance lets take George Bush. One will almost certainly be reminded of a monkey. Paris Hilton reminds me of a dumb blond. A Corolla reminds me of a trash can and so on. If you ask my friends what they are reminded when they think of me. It would certainly be a camera. Not that I am a great photographer, just that I tend to carry one around all the time hoping to become one.

Any person with the slightest interest in photography will try to get his hands on an SLR camera. Hoping to capture masterpieces using it. I sadly am one among them. And I did realise after using it for a while that, its just a big and heavy camera. Not a magic wand. My picture quality actually deteriorated from the point and shoot camera I had before. Its just that I didn't know how to use it. One in about 1000 shots did come out good. For which people said, it was because of the camera and not me. Well what about the rest of the 999 failed shots? They said, that was just me.

When I posted that one picture on Face Book and Orkut, a few of my friends asked me add some extra effects using photoshop. Basically make it look better. I never agreed to that. In terms of art yes, but not when my aim is to take good pictures. The maximum I do is convert it to black and white. Only lately did I find out that none of the pictures in magazines etc are original. All of them are touched in some way or the other.

The French government now plans to impose a rule where all air brushed published pictures need to have a "Photo retouched" label on them. Just so people know that the person in the pictures is not as gifted as they think and, don't starve themselves to death trying to look like them. Though this could have a good impact on adolescents, as not many know of this.

A few years back the fashion industry faced with a lot of criticism since all the models were anorexic. They in fact had weights tied to them, just in case they fly away. Even the film industry suffers. All the actresses say they eat anything and everything and do not follow any diet. Reality is, they can't remember when they had a proper meal. One person I know used to skip meals to maintain her weight, to avoid looking like her heavier sister. This turned beneficial to her sister. She ended up eating her sister's food too.

I try hard to get a six pack ab like Aamir Khan, but even after four years of gymming all I see is one extra large single pack. I still feel its a sensible goal, unlike trying to loose weight and become invisible. I feel underweight models shouldn't be allowed to take the ramp, unless their goal is to scare people away. The Indian mentality works very well in this case. Indians think you are weak if you are thin and very healthy if you weigh more than a bus.

If that rule is implemented in the US, it could spell disaster. The already fat population would get back to their old ways of ordering super sized double cheese burgers. They would be convinced that sensible eating won't get them to look like Beyonce. Unless, they ignore the warning labels like the one's on cigarette packets. Which off late is so big that, the labels themselves are used to pack the cigarettes.

A warning label of a female model in the US could read something like this.'Warning: Photo retouched, Female Model refurbished (boob job, nose job, chin job, Botox, Tummy tuck and liposuction)'

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