Before Kate Moss and Gia’s so-called Heroin Chic there was Consumptive Chic. These links are for any of you who have wondered how and when our cultural views of beauty shifted from idealizing the mother image to the waif. Yes, we can blame the Victorians for whom pale skin, slenderness and languor epitomized the artistic and sensitive modern woman.
Links:
Heroin Chic | Heroin Chic Models and Look (therecoveryvillage.com)
(18) Heroin Chic 1997 – YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJc6qpjm-go
(18) 1995 News Report on Super Skinny Models, Heroin Chic, Kate Moss, Jodie Kidd – YouTube
How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion https://youtu.be/7Nz4_f6d93o
The Death of Mimi in La Boheme from The Lancet
Views of Tuberculosis and Physicians in Opera
Tuberculosis Became the Victorian Standard of Beauty (historycollection.com)
How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Goth Fashion – InsideHook
Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Diseasehttps://www.amazon.com/Consumptive-Chic-History-Fashion-Disease/dp/1350009377
Crimson Peak costumes and Tuberculosis Chic
Listening to the dancers body (bewegenmetaandacht.nl)
Inga Duncan Thornell 