Editing Supermodel (section)

==Perception==
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Perception of the supermodel as an industry has been frequent inside and outside the fashion press, from complaints that women desiring this status become unhealthily thin to charges of racism of dominant racial groups of the home countries in the first decade of the twenty-first century, where the "supermodel" generally has to conform to the native majority's standard of beauty, for example Northern European standards in United States or Indian standards in India. 

According to fashion writer Guy Trebay of ''The New York Times'', in 2007, the "android" look was popular, a vacant stare and thin body serving, according to some fashion industry conventions, to set off the couture. This had not always been the case. In the 1970s in North America, black, heavier and "ethnic" models dominated the runways but social changes in the 1980s to the early 2000s persuaded the power players in the fashion industry to shun suggestions of "otherness".<ref name="gt">"On runways, racial diversity is out". Guy Trebay. ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'', 23 October 2007.</ref> 

However, since the latter part of the first decade of the twenty-first century, an increasing level of racial diversity has been noted among supermodels in the American fashion scene, catering to the growing East Asian markets, including Japanese model [[Tao Okamoto]] and Chinese models [[Fei Fei Sun]] and Liu Wen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fashiongonerogue.com/7-asian-models-face-fashion/|title=7 Asian Models Changing the Face of Fashion|website=fashiongonerogue|access-date=20 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724072802/http://www.fashiongonerogue.com/7-asian-models-face-fashion/|archive-date=24 July 2014}}</ref> Due to the rising importance of social media and social movements such as [[Body positivity|third wave body positivity]], the range of diversity within the industry expanded to diversity in sizes, genders and social media visibility.

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