Ever wonder why Roman Polanski lives in France? Maybe these pictures from Vogue Paris provide the answer.
If these models look kind of young it’s because they are. Everyone of them is either six or seven years old.
I have a daughter who will turn 25 later this month. Her daughter will have her first birthday this spring. My daughter and granddaughter are precious to me. I cannot imagine letting anyone sexualize them like this at such a young age.
This is not little girls playing “dress-up.” It’s a disgusting way to rob them of their childhood. It might skirt the edge of legality, but it’s still wrong.
If these pictures don’t make you want to puke, read this article from Jezebel
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this should be a crime…what in the world is wrong with the parents to allow this.
It’s like looking at the Halloween costumes for little girls … the slut/whore look has been a popular look for a couple of years.
Sickening
It is sickening.
I was appalled at the costumes for little girls–they had nothing to do with their fun or comfort and everything to do with adult (male) sex fantasies.
When we went to the Halloween store, my daughter had two costumes to choose between, and one of those was marginal to me.
It’s gross. Can so many men not handle grown up female partners? The infantilisation of adult women and the pornification of children go hand in hand.
I’ve never seen these pics before. It is appalling that this is in the forefront of French culture–Vogue for crissakes.
Thanks for this post, MyIQ. Keep on hammering away at this cr@p.
My daughter is 23. When she was growing up, we would not allow her in pageants and the like due to sensationalizing her mostly based on her looks and then having to evolve into a woman based on looks alone and compete. It’s hard enough for a woman in this society to be “more than your face”, let alone for a young girl turning into a woman. This magazine is disgusting.
As for the “slut/whore” look, I think we all go through those certain “looks” during youth. For me, in the 60′s, it was black, black eye makeup and ratted hair that looked like a beehive. Thank heavens we come out of it.
The parents of these young girls are no different from those who groomed stars like Britney Spears, Beyonce, and Miley Cyrus into superstars.
The parents allowed this Vogue photo-spread to happen because it could catapult their daughters into supermodel stardom in the fashion capitol of the world, which means millions of dollars before their children reach legal age. For some parents, the possibility of wealth and stardom is took much to resist even if it means pimping their children at whatever cost.
There will always be parents out there willing to use their children for money. It is the magazine’s fault for allowing this photoshoot to happen in the first place.
I don’t understand what they’re selling. What could these children be selling to adults? And where are their parents?
Their parents are right there with them.
It’s child abuse.
My granddaughter just turned 4 on Sunday. Those pics make me ill. She loves to play dress-up, put on my shoes, play with my makeup, etc. But that’s not the same thing – that’s innocent fantasy of being “all grown up”, not a sexual thing.
I see little girl clothes all the time with things like “hottie” on them. What the hell is WRONG with these people? Who buys that stuff?
Exactly–this goes to seriously screwed up parents.
SERIOUSLY screwed up. Grandbaby was a mermaid for Halloween, not a slut. But she was very excited to get some mermaid curls:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5948067&l=54511f9774&id=691929022
What a precious smile. That is making memories.
She just lights up when she smiles doesn’t she?
I keep hoping for a grandchild, my kids are not cooperating.
Precisely. My daughter is 2. The thought of anyone thinking of her in that capacity just fills me with nausea.
My favorite is seeing young girls with “Juicy” written across their butts.
Sheesh.
This makes me sick. I have two grown daughters and this would depress them also. Reminds me of the Ramsey case in Colorado. There was something perverse about seeing pictures of that little girl dressed up for competition.
The poor Ramsey girl came to my mind, too, kc. The pictures above are perverse.
djmm
Very similar to those nuts who have their little girls in glam pageants — have you seen that sh!t? FREAKY.
I have no issue with “pageants” in theory, at least the way they used to be. I would never enter a girl in one, but back in the day it was about “age-appropriate” cuteness and frilly dresses and deportment and tap dancing.
Now? They have become majorly sexualized. I think it’s because one kid’s mom pushed the boundary, and that kid won. So the next mom pushed it even more, and won. I honestly don’t think anyone set out to say “Hey, let’s sex up these pageants until we have 6-year-olds prancing in bikinis and heels and tons of makeup! Great idea!” I think it was the slippery slope one-upping thing in pursuit of winning, and no one, judges or parents, had the guts to put on the brakes and say, “Whoaaaa! This is getting creepy! I think we need some guidelines here….”
Tons of make up isn’t even the worst thing. They actually put false teeth in these girls’ mouths to cover up missing teeth, but they end up looking like 5 year olds with a 30-year old’s mouth. {shiver} Not to mention the Farrah Fawcett wigs! They look like little 30 year old midgets, not little girls. It is truly a freak show. Throw in the sexualized dance moves for the “talent” portion of the show and it is downright sickening.
Ever see “Little Miss Sunshine”?
Yes I did! LOL And the fact is a “natural” girl like Abigal Breslin’s character wouldn’t have a shot in these kinds of pageants.
I’ve noticed that (other than crazy mothers & the pedophiles) a lot of gay men are involved these pageants. It is like they are playing with live dolls.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in marketing said just exactly that. The audience for this unspeakable garbage has probably been satiated with adult women and teenagers in porn poses. The children are all that’s left to give the pervs a buzz.
yes, I think you are on to something. I had a younger male friend who would tell me about all the things he did in terms of sexuality. I said to him one time that if he had seen and done it all at the age of 23, what did he have to look forward to? I can imagine him having to give up on sex at 30 because he’d become completely jaded and bored with the whole enterprise.
Oh, and I don’t know how Terry Richardson still gets work (and more importantly, why he isn’t in jail). He’s the guy that did the sick pictures of those Glee actors in GQ a few months ago (the brunette girl in white panties, spread eagle on bench in the lockeroom — not children, but pretty sleazy & porny stuff).
I saw a brief glimpse of that onTV. I didn’t know who the photographer was though. Women have become slaves here, maybe it was never stopped, but at least limited for awhile.
This is revolting on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. First, as you note, the innocence-robbing sexualization of these young girls. Second, the idea that it’s never too early to be indoctrinated into the rigid demands and neuroses of fashion (and I say this as someone who is way into fashion, when I can afford to be–but these girls are just too young).
How many of these girls envision a life as a model, and are even now planning their anorexia to begin ASAP? There was a news report the other day about a model who died after battling anorexia for years (she weighed 70 pounds when she died).
These girls also have that drugged-out look that some fashion photographers are so enamored of.
I need a drink, or something.
I noticed the facial expressions, too. Since when is a blank, bored, “I’d hate the whole fucking world if only I could be bothered” visage an attractive, sexy thing? I mean, even in adult women or men!
I’ve HAD sex with disengaged people who hate life and sneer at everything. It’s not even good sex.
I think the fashion and beauty industry makes tons of money foisting their own sad, lonely pathologies on the rest of us.
You’re right. That kind of sex is just angry sex. No fun or joy at all.
OK after reading that Jezebel article I now need two drinks and a shower.
The most disgusting thing about this video is the reaction of the parents:
Wow, that is so perverse, I am speechless. That’s absolutely insane.
These little girls shouldn’t even know who Beyonce is, much less dancing to a song that basically equates a woman to a piece of property that a man needs to “buy” if he likes “it.” WTF is wrong with these parents (and it is 100% the parents’ fault — without their consent, these girls wouldn’t be doing this). I was playing with dolls at their age. But then again, my mom dressed me like a little girl (no black, no belly shirts — I remember having to fight with her at around 13 that I was too old for sailor dresses & a wardrobe consisting of nothing but pastels) and didn’t expose me to pop culture at such a young age. Make up? Pfft. I was only allowed pink lip gloss until about 16. In fact, my mom pulled me out of a dance school when I was 6 when she saw the sexy dances being done by the older girl’s group (they were around 12, but my mom figured if they taught that cr@p to them, the place wasn’t something she wanted me associated with). And guess what? She was RIGHT. There is plenty of time for a girl to learn that she is viewed by most as a piece of meat — why teach that lesson so young?
The interesting thing is that the parents and the ‘dance’ teachers (hemmm what were they thinking) never went on camera to explain themselves.
I don’t know how to prepare a young child for adulthood. I tell my nieces over and over that it’s a man’s world. I want them to stay away from frilly outfits and study math and science. They like to dress up though.They don’t understand what I mean because they are young. I don’t know how to explain it well enough for them to understand. I wish that there was less media messaging like the Vogue display. Repulsive as the photos may be to some adults, to a child it looks glamorous.
Keep telling them. They might not listen now, but your words will stay with them as they grow & they’ll remember.
It isn’t the frilly outfits – it is being held to a standard that bases our acceptance in the world on making other people happy before ourselves.
Do what you love and decide your own worth.
Even when they’re not pushing right-wing crap specificially, the corporate media outlets are toxic.
Anyone know who the advertisers are? We have to know which ones to boycott.
djmm
I trid to google “cadeau”, “cadeaun” and “cadeaux” and still don’t have a clue who the advertiser is.
Who advertises in Paris Vogue?
Cadeaux translates as “gift-wrapped presents”
Excuse me while I puke
Oh, Jeez. Maybe you’re right and the little girls are the “gifts.”
‘Scuze me while I puke.
A high end gift boutique? Or is there a brand called Cadeaux?
So glad to see this post and the responses. I grew up in a conservative country and was never allowed to wear anything even slightly risque. Emigrated here to the USA and thought that my shock at some of the clothes that young girls wear could be attributed to “culture shock”. So glad that its not just me and my baggage
For two years or more now The Confluence has been fighting all this type of stuff. The trashing of women by both the left and the right.
Very bad images, and it is very cruel to cast them in sexual mannerism, and profit from it. Parents who think they are their trophies need to have their heads jerked.
Sickening and sad. The advertisers, agencies, designers should be called out and made an example of. This isn’t about American puritanism. It’s child exploitation and abuse wherever it takes place in the world.
On related subject, fashion designers are so obsessed with skinny female models, they’re just using thin men now to pose for women’s wear.
I’m not surprised. It has been my theory for a long time that because the fashion industry has a lot of gay men in it, they like the super-thin girls because they are built like boys (no hips, no bust, etc). I’m not knocking gays, but I think they’d think a “boyish figure” is more attractive than a voluptuous one. Having guys were the clothes is merely the next step.
Riiiiight. That’s why gay guys love Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna and other “thin” women.
And while we’re on the subject, gay and transvestite or transgender are not the same thing. You’re also confusing gay and pedophile, because the only “boys” the superthin models or litle girls look like is the pre-pubescent variety.
Corection. Should have nested with post above.
Gay guys don’t necessarily like Madonna more than straight guys. And not sure they like Elizabeth Taylor for her curves. We’re generalizing of course. Also talking about male fashion designers who don’t like boobs or hips.
No one said that gay guys like Elizabeth Taylor “for her curves. or that straights don’t like Madonna euqally. I was just pointing out that having curves is no barrier to becoming an iconic figure for gay men.
I’ve been a straight guy all my life and I’ve never understood the fascination so many guys have with huge breasts.
They’re never huge. They’re just different sizes.
I guess you’ve never been to California
I was just there last week. But then you probably knew that. I assume zero privacy on the internet.
The Clown sees all
I quit nursing a long, long time ago.
We were on a beach in Greece (which are topless, btw) & a woman with obviously fake breasts was laying there & of course I was staring at her because they were SO big & SO fake — they looked like rockets getting ready to watch. My brother glanced at her & then turned back around & kept talking. I said: “How can you not stare at that?” and he replied: “Fake breasts are like if I was starving & someone gave me waxed fruit.”
Word
I didn’t say gay & transvestite were the SAME THING. I said gay men don’t like hips & boobs. AND THEY DON’T.
You said: “Having guys were the clothes is merely the next step.” That does in fact llink the two things.
This is mega creepy.
Compared to this, Norman Bates is normal.