Models strike in Italy's fashion capital
You people have no idea how hard we pretty people have it!
By COLLEEN BARRY
The Associated Press
MILAN, Italy (AP) — Models refused to pose, photographers stilled their flashes and stylists laid down their brushes for three hours Wednesday to protest the lack of rules governing their industry, which they complain is taking the gloss off Italy's fashion capital. [...]
Internationally known photographer Antonio Guccione participated in the action in a show of solidarity.
"In the 1980s, everyone was here, all of the most famous models and photographers. Everybody worked in Milan." said Guccione, whose photographs have appeared in Vanity Fair, among other magazines, and whose subjects have included Umberto Eco, Federico Fellini and Giorgio Armani. "Now the situation is different. Everyone shoots abroad and our economy has fallen."
Dolci told some 100 participants who gathered during the action that the crisis striking the fashion industry — which he estimated has an annual turnover of euro1 billion ($1.2 billion) a year — also hit other areas, such as hotels, restaurants, museums and taxi drivers.
"The damages are huge," he said. [...]
This is a true tragedy. What next, government jobs gets outsourced or moved to other countries?
Even we fashion challenged persons should be concerned.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at May 17, 2006 03:00 PMSo how do Models strike? Striking a pose would be right out and a hunger strike, well now that's just silly. Maybe they should all go out and eat a big bowl of pasta.
Posted by: Sarah G. at May 17, 2006 03:40 PMWell, it does seem like it would be hard to get old, ugly, and fat in only the three hours the strike lasted.
But just think of the stylists! Who laid down their brushes! How can anyone bear to see this horror without flinching!?
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 17, 2006 03:52 PMWould it too be rude to say BFD?
If the very last one of them was sucked back into the mothership and departed this globe, I wouldn't take the time to read the CNN headline.
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 17, 2006 03:57 PMOh, thank goodness!
But just remember, that doesn't give you an open-ended excuse to hate me for any other reason, either. They should be good, well-thought-out reasons.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 17, 2006 04:11 PMGood thought out reasons seem like a lot of work.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at May 17, 2006 04:18 PMHard work!? I CALL A STRIKE!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 17, 2006 04:27 PMHe's in fashion and he's pining for the eighties?
No wonder they're all leaving Milan.
Posted by: kitchen hand at May 17, 2006 10:08 PM::sniff:: Yes, I too pine for the Eighties. Or at least the parts of them I remember.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 18, 2006 08:42 AM