Lingerie Store Removes Rib-Protruding Mannequin After Twitter Outrage
May 15, 2014 by admin
Filed under Latest Lingerie News
By Gillian Mohney
The upscale lingerie store La Perla came under fire this week after a photo of a store mannequin with protruding ribs went viral on the Internet.
The picture snapped at the New York store by a Twitter user named Michael Rudoy showed a mannequin in the store window in red lingerie with protruding ribs.
How does #LaPerla think ribs on a mannequin is ok?! @SethMatlins pic.twitter.com/NPYMLQxhNc
— Michael Rudoy (@mrudoy) May 12, 2014
Quickly the picture started to make the rounds across the Internet with many users calling the mannequin too thin and a bad message for people with eating disorders. The Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness tweeted that the mannequin was “terrible!”
Even some people in the fashion industry used to seeing wafer-thin figures wrote that the mannequin went too far. Louise O’Reilly, a plus-sized model from England wrote that she was “shocked” after seeing the picture.
Shocked by La Perla’s mannequins this is a terrible step back for body image.
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