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How fashion veered back into idealising skinniness
GLP-1s and a backlash against woke attitudes have dented the body positivity movement. Who stands to gain from it?
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Skinny is back in fashion as seen in the figures of models during Fashion Week in Milan.
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Emma Jacobs
One night, browsing on Instagram, I clicked on an image of a woman unveiling a newly slender body in figure-hugging clothes. The algorithm soon served me reel upon reel of people celebrating weight loss achieved with GLP-1 drugs, including already slim women praising microdosing, and becoming even thinner.
Soon I found myself following a link to an online chemist, plugging in my weight and height, then tweaking it to qualify for diet drugs. Because, shouldn’t I be smaller too?
