“When we think that Laetitia Castawho was still the best guy in the world, arrived like a… a revolution in the period Kate Moss with brisket. But that’s all she really had, she was super thin.” It is through this example that Emilie Albertini, stylist and television presenter, gives his opinion on beauty standards which have been built since the 90s until today.
Born at the end of the 70s, Émilie Albertini spent her adolescence in the mid-90s. She grew up in Corsica, a region where swimsuits were essential for a large part of the year. She explains that she belonged to a whole generation of girls whose bodies were exposed. “I didn’t suffer from my image in the 1990s because I completely fit the mold of girls who were extremely thin“. However, this does not prevent her from specifying that she was conscious at that time the look “extremely heavy from society, from men, on our bodies”.
“The more images we are bombarded with, the more complicated it is,” regrets Emilie Albertini
Émilie Albertini recalls that the 90s were marked by the arrival of super top models, like Claudia Schiffer or Cindy Crawford, and by that of chic heroines like Kate Moss. The stylist cites in particular with the Calvin Klein campaigns“where you had to be extremely androgynous”. At this time, there were also the so-called “curvy” models, which “were absolutely not”, she adds. “I think they were girls who were a size 36 or a good 38, like Kate Winslet in Titanic, Baby Spice Girl and Geri Halliwell, or even Bridget Jones“.
Looking back, she says that The 90s generated completely biased images of women’s bodies for an entire generation. The weight, normality and beauty slider was completely out of adjustment. “Supposedly, by evolving with precisely this notion of body positivism, we are all supposed to accept each other, all bodies, inclusiveness, fashion shows. We are trying to make more and more women ‘plus size’ and paradoxically, the standard of beauty remains the same. […] I think that the more images we are bombarded with, the more complicated it is.“, she says.
The stylist “advocates placing the cursor of one’s demands on oneself where one wants”
The way we look at our body would last a lifetime, according to the stylist: “There’s the adolescent period where we look for ourselves, where we compare ourselves, there is the twenties which are supposed to be the prime of life, but not necessarily for everyone. And then, when children arrive, the upheavals that this causes on women’s bodies.” There is a permanent questioning of one’s body and its appearance among women. It is greatly linked to the way society sees itself, but above all, the way someone sees themselves. “I think women are quite lost today and I simply advocate placing the cursor of your demands on yourself and your beauty exactly where you want.” she affirms. All women must aspire to a kind of serenity to try to achieve a certain self-esteem. The final word being that each woman can find happiness and appeasement with regard to her image, where she wants and where he is at this precise moment.
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