supermodel height

[mews64]

How tall do you have to be to be a supermodel?

[SASHAGREEN]

i beleive height does not matter!

[dmsjps]

Not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but to be a supermodel - i.e. a proper model, not some page 3 bint - then I believe it's 5'6", but it could have all changed by now. To be a glamour model - i.e. page 3 bint, Penthouse poser, etc - height doesn't matter.

I don't see why there is a ruling that only girls over a certain height can be a supermodel (if the rule still applies) because I know very few people of that height myself and I'm sure I'm not unusual. If the excuse is that 'clothes look better on people who are over 5'6" and a size 10', then I think it's time they started making clothes for the masses instead of trying to encourage all teenage girls to be pukers!

[nicola_red]

Most fashion modelling agencies (ie not 'glamour') won't look at girls under 5'9" and men under 6'.  Kate Moss is the exception that proves the rule.

[camille79]

I thought it was 5'8" for women and 6' for men.  I remember when Kate Moss emerged on the scene, a huge fuss being made of the fact that she was "only" 5' 7.5"! 

[Scarlett]

It's silly- it surely has to be more to do with proportion? I remember seeing a Kylie Minogue video years back, where she was standing up in an open-topped car, singing her song. I thought she was probably about 5'8 or so. I was REALLY surprised to find out she is so tiny, because she is in PROPORTION! She looks like she could be 5'10 if you don't stand her next to anything! Your average 5'6'' person is going to be slightly more squat, with bigger ankles etc. If they dieted themselves down to nothing they would look ill. Whereas tall people are naturally more "stretched out" so their limbs are thinner and longer, without their faces looking gaunt.

[Scarlett]

http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2004/calendari/kilye/01.jpg

Here is an example!

[lizzierose]

most of the SUPERmodelas are about 6' aren't they

[cre]

Kate Moss is a 'supermodel' and she's only 5'7" but most of them are giraffes. Most of them make a name for themselves on the catwalk where height matters more.