Herve Leger on Models: They Don't Make Them Like They Used To

Designer Herve Leger, currently known as Herve L. Leroux has revealed that he will no longer show his collections at Fashion Week because of the models walking the runway.

He says that the models these days are very uninspiring because they’re all too skinny. So a size negative 0 isn’t hot?

"If I had to go back to catwalk presentations I would be in a panic...Already the models I find are too skinny, too sad. And I knew the age of the super top models, Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford, who were always lively and smiling," Léger said.

The Herve Leger label has been under the Max Azria brand since 1999, but Herve created his own label called Herve L. Leroux in 2000. He says the name was actually suggested by his good friend Karl Lagerfeld.

It’s actually funny that he is so inspired by Karl Lagerfeld, who has on many occasions revealed his dislike for fat people.

"No one wants to see curvy women," Lagerfeld has said. "You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly," he added.

I do have to agree with Herve on the fact that there are not real supermodels these days. The days of Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson, and Linda Evangelista are definitely long gone.