What Linda Evangelista's Lawsuit Reveals About Toxic Beauty Standards

Linda Evangelista attends the Fragrance Foundation Awards at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in New York.

This month, supermodel Linda Evangelista announced she was suing the company behind the cosmetic procedure CoolSculpting, alleging that she had been “brutally disfigured.” Rhonda Garelick, dean of the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, joins us to discuss the case, and cosmetic procedures more broadly. She wrote about Evangelista’s lawsuit in a piece for The New York Times titled “The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate.”