I suppose it’s nothing new. Our culture is obsessed with youth. It’s easy to point fingers at the fashion industry but recently the fashion pages have been inundated with preteens. We’ve all heard of Tavi, child fashion blogger extraordinaire but now respected publications are joining the fold as evidenced in GQ’s inclusion of Romeo Beckham in their best dressed list and most shockingly, Sharif Hamza’s highly stylized editorial featuring little girls for French Vogue. These girls, some rumored to be as young as six have been made to wear skin tight dresses and stilettos whilst laying provocatively on beds and animal print rugs. Is it art if the subjects are too young to understand what they’re satirizing? I don’t know, I do know that it makes me uncomfortable. Fashion is supposed to inspire, entertain and rightly or wrongly provide us with what is considered to be the aesthetic ideal of the time. Does this mean we’re all supposed to look like 10 year olds now? And I thought jeggings were a bad idea…sigh.
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