Oh, I have heard that too. I was told that reason why models look how they do is b/c the clothes look better on a hanger than on a body, and basically models are human hangers. This mentality confounds me. For me, clothes and the body are so closely tied together that when I design, one of the first things I consider is how the clothes will look on the body.

tbh I always felt I wasn't as edgy or creative of a designer as many of my classmates, but I was more interested in costume design, so I was OK with it. If I did do fashion design my looks would definitely be more suited to practical ready-to-wear clothes than high fashion.