Timeless Beauty

Subtitled “The Once and Future Aesthetic”, the “Timeless Beauty” page is an interesting review of what we held as ideal beauty in the past in comparison to models that fulfill those ideals today. It really draws into relief how warped our current sense of fashion has become, relative to the more realistic view that we’ve historically held.

“The New Shape in Fashion” was the slogan of MODE, a revolutionary fashion magazine for “plus sizes.” This slogan was quite ironic, however, because the kind of beauty that MODE promoted was not “new” at all. Neither was it in any way dated. In fact, it was timeless—something which becomes abundantly clear when we compare today’s plus-size models with the most revered icons of female beauty in Western history.”