Marquardt’s Phi Mask: Pitfalls of Relying on Fashion Models and the Golden Ratio to Describe a Beautiful FaceĮlectronic publication, ahead of print Jan 4, 2008 I have never experienced such a moment and would not want to find out what it feels like to have a cherished idea thoroughly refuted.Īnyway, a shortcoming of the following article is that it cites a study about the thinness of fashion models using a mid-1990s sample (average BMI 17.57), but it should have been added that fashion models have gotten thinner since then, the current preference among fashion designers being for models with a BMI in the neighborhood of 16. In a way, I feel sorry for Marquardt since he has worked on his Phi mask for decades, is very strongly devoted to it and seems to have had an epiphany after coming up with it. Strictly speaking, the criticism in the following article should not be considered definitive since time must be given to Marquardt or others to critique it, and others are more than welcome to try. Stephen Marquardt has never published the validity of his mask in a peer-reviewed journal though some papers have favorably reviewed it. It is written for a scientific/medical audience, but its contents have been discussed in a more layperson-friendly manner at this site before. The electronic version was posted online a few days ago. A formal criticism of Stephen Marquardt’s Phi (Golden ratio) mask is about to be published.
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