A makeover for Minnie Mouse?
Yes, and her new look — as a bone-thin supermodel for a Barneys New York holiday window display — is not sitting too well with some body-image experts, models and actresses like Virginia Madsen and True Blood‘s Kristin Bauer.
“The issue of body image is always prevalent and should be considered,” Ragen Chastain, a positive body image blogger and Los Angeles dance teacher, tells New York’s Daily News. Chastain launched a petition movement on change.org calling for the Madison Avenue department store to remove the image of Minnie in ruffled Lavin mini dress, opera gloves and stilettos (far left) from its holiday display, due to premiere Nov. 14 — four days before the famous mouse’s 84th birthday.
“The message is if your body doesn’t fit into a designer dress, drastically change your body. Not, let’s insist on a designer that’s talented enough to make a dress that fits you,” insists Chastain. “That’s a dangerous message to send girls, ‘Minnie Mouse doesn’t fit into a high-fashion dress so we changed Minnie Mouse, not the high-fashion dress.’”
source: People.com
