HAMILTON, ON,
The Judgment of
The site's name refers to history's first beauty contest, a classical myth about a shepherd named
The name also indicates the site's mission to critique the fashion industry (
Many of the site's pages compare images of plus-size models with depictions of ideal femininity in sculpture and painting throughout history. "The vogue for thinness is a relatively recent phenomenon, an aberration," asserts site creator Heinrich Saint-Germain. "Historically, artists favoured a curvier look. Today's plus-size models bring that timeless ideal to life."
On the site's lively forum, visitors discuss a host of topics, such as why the beauty ideal changed from full-figured to skeletal early in the twentieth century.
One of judgmentofparis.com's boldest claims is that this shift from the traditional preference for curves to the androgynous, contemporary standard was part of the suppression of beauty in all of the arts.
"Throughout history, beauty was the artistic ideal, but in the twentieth century, the arts broke from this tradition," Saint-Germain states. "The rise of the modern fashion model with her unnatural look-angles instead of curves, hardness instead of softness, flat planes instead of rounded contours-was part of this upheaval."
The Judgment of
After a century of minimalism and what the Judgment of
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