Look, I know we’re really not supposed to comment on women’s bodies in the media any more. It’s deeply un-feminist, according to the course correction celebrity journalism has attempted to make after the 2000s, where young stars were hounded for even a slightly unflattering paparazzi shot.
But when Lily Collins, star of Netflix’s Emily in Paris, attended the Calvin Klein show at New York Fashion Week, I felt an unnerving moment of deja vu. Just like during the Wicked press tour last year, we are once again being asked to watch a woman in the spotlight flaunt a perilously thin body and either applaud her on her magnificence or shut up and keep our commentary to ourselves.
