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Why fashion models don’t smile
- xchip 5y agoTl;DR: They [models] must not exude personality, which would be inappropriate because it might distract from the clothes – and indeed the designer’s personality as portrayed through those clothes. They are, after all, a “model”. Nor must they look as if they are seeking approval, because that implies a lack of conviction in what is currently “right”.
- rektide 5y agoi liked the earlier part better: > It comes from the look of aristocratic disdain we see in centuries of royal portraiture which informed the 19th-century cartes de visite – society calling cards complete with what we might now term a “profile picture”.