In the veins of the vain
Q: What was the most audacious accessory to make its debut during New York Fashion Week?
A: It wasn’t anything designed by Marc Jacobs. According to The Daily Mail, the disturbing diet trend du jour consists of injecting oneself with an intravenous drip containing multivitamins. Originally designed to aid alcoholic hospital patients who are nutrient-deficient from drinking more than they eat, the bags (which contain a yellow liquid) are rumored to be this season’s must-have item among a number of print and runway models.
Dieting has existed since long before the advent of high-fashion commercial modeling, and everything from the cabbage soup diet to Atkins to the lemonade cleanse has been championed over the last few decades. But do any of them really work? If they did, would so many American women stop whatever program they’re on and immediately become obsessed with the new way to lose weight? Sure, models are supposed to be physical representations of unattainable beauty, but there’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed—and that line is now littered with track marks.
—Marcos Luevanos