Britain’s Missing Top Model : the visible side of elegance

I’m usually not a great fan – well, not a fan at all – of TV contests where a fistfull of young bimbos struggling to cathodic death in order to win fifteen minutes of rubbish celebrity.

But I actually changed my mind when I watched at the teaser of BBC 3’s Britain’s Missing Top Model. The season is a six-part series that may change your vision of fashion and modeling for a long time. This is the most intelligent, sensible and classy TV show I have ever seen !

Why ? Because this model competition introduce eight gorgeous girls, facing members of a jury every week. You all know how it works : one girl will be eliminated every week until the last one wins. The winner gets a photo shoot with famous photographer Rankin. The pictures will be published in top-selling magazine Marie-Claire. These height young women have the beauty, look and personality to become a model – all, and they are all disabled in one way or another (deaf, partially blind, amputated..)

In a world where the myth of the “perfect body” reigns on medias and even on social and professional relationships, these ladies are beautiful.

Not because they are in a wheeling chair or one-armed, but because they are as attractive as Jackie Kennedy or Grace Kelly. And, most of all, because the only thing you think of when you see them is : “Wow ! I would kill to wear the same dress the way she wears it !” or “I wish I could have dinner with her, she looks SO great !”

Beauty over all. Over Time. Over stupidity. Over handicap.

This, in my opinion, is the visible side of elegance.