[blockquote]Perhaps it's indicative of our general need to probe behind the perfect images of fashion - witness the lust for behind-the-scenes documentaries and revealing romans à clef - but our focus has shifted from the perfected, idealised bodies on the catwalk to the bodies beside it.[/blockquote]
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As we gird our loins in preparation for the latest round of catwalk shows across the four fashion capitals, SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alexander Fury outlines the twenty-first century fashion phenomenon of editor-as-editorial in his contribution to our Fashion Body essay series. Evident on street-style blogs across the Internet, Fury argues that the shift of our attention from models' bodies onto snapshot images of these new fashion celebrities is indicative of fashion's new taste for realism, a respect for the power these women wield, and the transformative nature of fashion as a whole.