In a recent ad, Zara tells women to love their curves. Hurray for that. Unfortunately, the retailer has put this remark next to a photo of two skinny models, who are very pretty and lovely, but not curvy. There is nothing wrong with the models, but in our opinion, the marketers give the wrong message by labeling them as curvy.
So we recreated the ad not only to show Zara our behinds but also to remind them there are plenty of curvy models out there. A lot of young girls are struggling with their body image and they should be shown different types of bodies. Not just skinny ones.
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Share on FacebookWell said. These girls are great, but NOT curvy. It's dangerous to label them as curvy because if these elegant narrow-ish bodies are considered curvy, that means litterally skinny girls with their feminine curves a bit pointed out will feel fat and might be shamed for it too. While the non-skinny, but still healthy girls and women will "be obese" or "pigs". Let's be real and precise, please. For the sake of our personal and society's overall mental and physical health.
Teenagers around the world with healthy figures are going to see the ad and think "well if they are curvy, then i must be fat" and then hello eating disorders.
Curvy refers to a body type with a markedly narrower waist than bust and hips and a well-toned butt and not someone who is overweight. Or at least that is what it used to mean. You can be very slim and still curvy.
Load More Replies...These models may be thin but they do have curves. A curve is a non-straight line. Their bodies have those. Yes, they are on the skinny-side but that doesn't make them curveless. Their curves are simply on a smaller frame.
Kristel, you're missing the point. The term "curvy" refers to women who are not the classic size 0-2 of models. "Curvy" doesn't work well in the modeling industry. Yes, these are human women with curvature, as human women have curvature. They are using size 0-2 models to represent a typical size 8+ category. That's the issue.
Load More Replies...I like the idea. Good message. On the other hand... thin women can have curves too (I am one). A lot of them do. Only the first add doesn't do a good job at showing that.
The ad says "love your curves". I am not really understanding why skinny people can but love their curves as well. I'm skinny, but I still have curves. I do love my curves. Plus, I think this ad is trying to promote the jeans they sell. No one wants their butt to look flat.
From a geometrical point of view not only curvy women have curves. Smaller curves are still curves. The illustrator in me always gets peeved when skinny women are referred to as "flat". There's nothing flat about the human body, even the skinniest.
I am a normal sized person. Not even "curvy" and most of Zara's clothes are way too small. And extra large ( if you can find one) is way too small on me. Clothes made for children
What? No.. I can fit in M and L zara clothes and I am pretty average curvy type. Aka big boobs, smaller waist and 38/40 a*s on 168 cm. And Zara clothes are okay for me and they also go for XXL sizes. The only problem I have is thet they are expensive for me.
Load More Replies...That's not the Point of it. The add says love your curves and the there are 2, beautiful young lady's, without curves.. so if you're 12 years old, not as skinny as they 2 girls on the poster, what would you think the girl of 12 thinks? She thinks she is to dat and should be as skinny as the girls on the left. And that's not right! You should love your body, no matter what.
Load More Replies...Okay I don't like Zara because they steal designs from small buisnesses...but I can see how this may have been misconstrued. The jeans are called curves. They are referencing the name of the jeans in the ad, not the bodies. True they should have seen the backlash coming though, but I don't think Zara gives a darn.
We all need to be a little less thin skinned. I rolled my eyes at the ad and moved on. I just want a pair of jeans that fits right. It would be good if ads were more inclusive, but in the end confidence has to come from within. However, those upset that someone said the models don't have curves, they don't and that's fine. Slim ladies make up the majority of models... so rock those skinny jeans and move on.
Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexes. Love who you are.
As a woman who has been both thin, and ..well..fat, people need to chill. Just be happy you're alive and stop getting offended so easily.
"Curvy" does NOT mean bigger. It comes from the hourglass shape of a classic woman's figure. That is bone structure. Super thin and larger girls can be "curvy". But just being a bigger girl does NOT make you curvy. It makes you bigger. You could have the straightest, most shapeless body ever, be bigger, and somehow you get to say you're curvy. You're either curvy or not, and slender girls who have extreme curves to their body are everywhere and large girls who don't have any curves and are simply just big, are also everywhere. Big people need to stop hijacking the damn word. Annoys the c**p out of me.
So many harsh comments :P Fat shaming, thin shaming. We are all beautiful, inside or out, or maybe we are not and that's okay too. Weeeeeee!!!!
I think the ad means that, either you have big or small curves, you should love just the way you are. Why they used "skinny" girls? Cause if they used big sized girls everyone would say "Ok, it's an ad for fats, not me." Why not use a small sized girl next to a big one? Same reason, I think.
The style of the jeans is Curves, so they are telling them to love their jeans.
The problem is that everything must be labelled. Thin, skinny, curvy, overweight etc, it's all A BODY. Nothing, absolutely nothing will be perfect in the eyes of everyone (my cat is perfect to me but I'm sure someone will find a fault - and I'll hunt you down :D ), if we go by the "oh but they're skinny" kinda thing we might as well go down the route, oh they're women, they are white, they have all limbs, they are young etc etc etc. It should just say "love your body" tbh
Don't find any of them attractive really. Under fed vs well fed? Beauty they say is in the eye of the beholder. The advert is not a very good one, other than provoking a response.
Thin women can be curvy. I see curves on those models. It's all about proportions that determine a curvy woman not whatever size they are.
As far as their proportions they are about the same. Both have kind of curvy butts and boobs. The first picture is just thinner.
Everyone has curves - just because some people's curves are more noticeable than others doesn't mean they don't exist-
Everyone's chemical makeup is different & everyone gains weight different- most people I know have a curvier beer belly than anything else!
Load More Replies...Zara is a disgrace, first steals ideas from small businesses and now this?!
I think Sondre's mental state is a bit on edge... "energy disappears. Screw the laws of physics, I'm falling up!" ???
Left photo - underweight, right photo overweight - both as bad. Couldn't you show people with a healthy BMI?
Can't you just let people be happy the way they are instead of assuming they're over or underweight?
Load More Replies...Maybe they are addressing issues like bulimia? Some girls have serious health issues because they can't love their curves. Look before you leap!
Of course not curves ☺ In Polish it means the women loose morals s**t
I think the the chicks on the right suffer from prediabetes. Not being mean, I'm being technical and logical. Put down the processed foods and feed your body nutrition.
I think the only thing that is wrong in the original ad is the word "curves". If I had done it, it would read "love your body" and that's it.
The name of those jeans is "curves". I can't stop laughing
Load More Replies...I find this hilarious - who gets to decide what's curvy? I thought the goal is to break with the stereotypes, in every way.
Oh look, fatties are trying to hijack the word "curvy" again. Quelle surprise.
So by showing you should love your curves when you're like the women on the right, you should show that you can't love your small curves when you're skinny? What's the point of that? Can't you just put one skinny and one curvy and that's all? Both the ad and the fake ad are terrible because they devaluate the other...
Nothing wrong with them? They look bloody anorexic! The modeling industry should be persecuted for promoting this extra-skinny image!!
I think it's a little extreme. The girls on the right look fat. It's not attractive. You can big bigger, but you still need to be healthy and somewhat fit.
Ooops... Photoshop disaster? The left girl has so big head to her body...?
I am sorry to the ladies on the right, but not only the overweight bodies are considered "curvy". And no - overweight is not beautiful and it's certainly not healthy. It is understandable that some people would like that all bodies are beautiful, but no not all of them are and this is the truth. In this case I prefer the ones on the left.
The media constantly shows "curvy" women in their ads, television shows, entertainer's speeches, etc. Those "skinny" women do have curves just not curves of fat. Why can't the skinny girls have body positive images just like the fat ones?
You're also one of those who think depression is laziness, right? There are so many health issues that have nothing to do with the calories you are capable to controll and make you gain weight...
Load More Replies...Well said. These girls are great, but NOT curvy. It's dangerous to label them as curvy because if these elegant narrow-ish bodies are considered curvy, that means litterally skinny girls with their feminine curves a bit pointed out will feel fat and might be shamed for it too. While the non-skinny, but still healthy girls and women will "be obese" or "pigs". Let's be real and precise, please. For the sake of our personal and society's overall mental and physical health.
Teenagers around the world with healthy figures are going to see the ad and think "well if they are curvy, then i must be fat" and then hello eating disorders.
Curvy refers to a body type with a markedly narrower waist than bust and hips and a well-toned butt and not someone who is overweight. Or at least that is what it used to mean. You can be very slim and still curvy.
Load More Replies...These models may be thin but they do have curves. A curve is a non-straight line. Their bodies have those. Yes, they are on the skinny-side but that doesn't make them curveless. Their curves are simply on a smaller frame.
Kristel, you're missing the point. The term "curvy" refers to women who are not the classic size 0-2 of models. "Curvy" doesn't work well in the modeling industry. Yes, these are human women with curvature, as human women have curvature. They are using size 0-2 models to represent a typical size 8+ category. That's the issue.
Load More Replies...I like the idea. Good message. On the other hand... thin women can have curves too (I am one). A lot of them do. Only the first add doesn't do a good job at showing that.
The ad says "love your curves". I am not really understanding why skinny people can but love their curves as well. I'm skinny, but I still have curves. I do love my curves. Plus, I think this ad is trying to promote the jeans they sell. No one wants their butt to look flat.
From a geometrical point of view not only curvy women have curves. Smaller curves are still curves. The illustrator in me always gets peeved when skinny women are referred to as "flat". There's nothing flat about the human body, even the skinniest.
I am a normal sized person. Not even "curvy" and most of Zara's clothes are way too small. And extra large ( if you can find one) is way too small on me. Clothes made for children
What? No.. I can fit in M and L zara clothes and I am pretty average curvy type. Aka big boobs, smaller waist and 38/40 a*s on 168 cm. And Zara clothes are okay for me and they also go for XXL sizes. The only problem I have is thet they are expensive for me.
Load More Replies...That's not the Point of it. The add says love your curves and the there are 2, beautiful young lady's, without curves.. so if you're 12 years old, not as skinny as they 2 girls on the poster, what would you think the girl of 12 thinks? She thinks she is to dat and should be as skinny as the girls on the left. And that's not right! You should love your body, no matter what.
Load More Replies...Okay I don't like Zara because they steal designs from small buisnesses...but I can see how this may have been misconstrued. The jeans are called curves. They are referencing the name of the jeans in the ad, not the bodies. True they should have seen the backlash coming though, but I don't think Zara gives a darn.
We all need to be a little less thin skinned. I rolled my eyes at the ad and moved on. I just want a pair of jeans that fits right. It would be good if ads were more inclusive, but in the end confidence has to come from within. However, those upset that someone said the models don't have curves, they don't and that's fine. Slim ladies make up the majority of models... so rock those skinny jeans and move on.
Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexes. Love who you are.
As a woman who has been both thin, and ..well..fat, people need to chill. Just be happy you're alive and stop getting offended so easily.
"Curvy" does NOT mean bigger. It comes from the hourglass shape of a classic woman's figure. That is bone structure. Super thin and larger girls can be "curvy". But just being a bigger girl does NOT make you curvy. It makes you bigger. You could have the straightest, most shapeless body ever, be bigger, and somehow you get to say you're curvy. You're either curvy or not, and slender girls who have extreme curves to their body are everywhere and large girls who don't have any curves and are simply just big, are also everywhere. Big people need to stop hijacking the damn word. Annoys the c**p out of me.
So many harsh comments :P Fat shaming, thin shaming. We are all beautiful, inside or out, or maybe we are not and that's okay too. Weeeeeee!!!!
I think the ad means that, either you have big or small curves, you should love just the way you are. Why they used "skinny" girls? Cause if they used big sized girls everyone would say "Ok, it's an ad for fats, not me." Why not use a small sized girl next to a big one? Same reason, I think.
The style of the jeans is Curves, so they are telling them to love their jeans.
The problem is that everything must be labelled. Thin, skinny, curvy, overweight etc, it's all A BODY. Nothing, absolutely nothing will be perfect in the eyes of everyone (my cat is perfect to me but I'm sure someone will find a fault - and I'll hunt you down :D ), if we go by the "oh but they're skinny" kinda thing we might as well go down the route, oh they're women, they are white, they have all limbs, they are young etc etc etc. It should just say "love your body" tbh
Don't find any of them attractive really. Under fed vs well fed? Beauty they say is in the eye of the beholder. The advert is not a very good one, other than provoking a response.
Thin women can be curvy. I see curves on those models. It's all about proportions that determine a curvy woman not whatever size they are.
As far as their proportions they are about the same. Both have kind of curvy butts and boobs. The first picture is just thinner.
Everyone has curves - just because some people's curves are more noticeable than others doesn't mean they don't exist-
Everyone's chemical makeup is different & everyone gains weight different- most people I know have a curvier beer belly than anything else!
Load More Replies...Zara is a disgrace, first steals ideas from small businesses and now this?!
I think Sondre's mental state is a bit on edge... "energy disappears. Screw the laws of physics, I'm falling up!" ???
Left photo - underweight, right photo overweight - both as bad. Couldn't you show people with a healthy BMI?
Can't you just let people be happy the way they are instead of assuming they're over or underweight?
Load More Replies...Maybe they are addressing issues like bulimia? Some girls have serious health issues because they can't love their curves. Look before you leap!
Of course not curves ☺ In Polish it means the women loose morals s**t
I think the the chicks on the right suffer from prediabetes. Not being mean, I'm being technical and logical. Put down the processed foods and feed your body nutrition.
I think the only thing that is wrong in the original ad is the word "curves". If I had done it, it would read "love your body" and that's it.
The name of those jeans is "curves". I can't stop laughing
Load More Replies...I find this hilarious - who gets to decide what's curvy? I thought the goal is to break with the stereotypes, in every way.
Oh look, fatties are trying to hijack the word "curvy" again. Quelle surprise.
So by showing you should love your curves when you're like the women on the right, you should show that you can't love your small curves when you're skinny? What's the point of that? Can't you just put one skinny and one curvy and that's all? Both the ad and the fake ad are terrible because they devaluate the other...
Nothing wrong with them? They look bloody anorexic! The modeling industry should be persecuted for promoting this extra-skinny image!!
I think it's a little extreme. The girls on the right look fat. It's not attractive. You can big bigger, but you still need to be healthy and somewhat fit.
Ooops... Photoshop disaster? The left girl has so big head to her body...?
I am sorry to the ladies on the right, but not only the overweight bodies are considered "curvy". And no - overweight is not beautiful and it's certainly not healthy. It is understandable that some people would like that all bodies are beautiful, but no not all of them are and this is the truth. In this case I prefer the ones on the left.
The media constantly shows "curvy" women in their ads, television shows, entertainer's speeches, etc. Those "skinny" women do have curves just not curves of fat. Why can't the skinny girls have body positive images just like the fat ones?
You're also one of those who think depression is laziness, right? There are so many health issues that have nothing to do with the calories you are capable to controll and make you gain weight...
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