Body Image and the Septmeber Issue

So I just watched the September Issue, yes a little behind the times I know but whatever...
I found it so interesting the influence Anna Wintour has. Yes I know she's great and yada yada yada but seriously, don't the fashion world know how dangerous giving one person all that power can be? I'd seriously like to see the designer who had the balls to stand up to her coz in all that doco I didn't see it once.
I get why they let her, because they need the press her magazine and her inturn can give them but it just makes me sad to see how the fashion industry works.
FOr those of us, myself included, who love fashion and love the power of the clothes and the ideas they provoke, it makes me sad to think that designers really can't get anywhere if they don't bow to her request.
But as i said i do get it.
What I did like was how she helped Thakoon. Sure i know it's only 1 designer in a sea of designers but it was nice, it also, very powerfully showed her power and influence. "I said you'd get Gap."

Body Image.
The federal government has introduced guidelines about models and retouching in magazines.
Ok well and good, i don't really enjoy seeing walking skeletons paraded in front of me.
However if they are, I'm not stupid enough to see them and think that's what I need to look like. Yes I would like to be skinny but seriously I don't see these models as a danger to my health. I also see those pictures and realise they have been retouched.
I don't know about many people, and maybe because of things I had to go through as a child I was realised early, but no one is perfect. I know they're just words and I actually got to see this in action but i want to know what happened to teaching people common sense? Seriously.
If you're a young girl and see a picture of Miley Cirus or whoever and think that she's like that in real life you're seriously deluded and maybe just a large bit thick.
I don't think these guidelines are going to make 1 bit of difference until parents start stepping up to the plate and teaching their kids common sense, tolerance and self acceptance.