While fashion is experiencing a unprecedented media hype, top-models have emerged as essential media figures. Raised to the rank of archetypes in the media, top-models’ bodies fulfill a symbolic function with social power. These models actually update the myth of the perfect body, and its give meaning and shape. In order to meet any desire ― or to pursue any fear ― does the myth meet with such an echo in contemporary societies? This is one of the questions that this article aims to shed some light.
