A curious thought

Like a lot of other people, I've been following the coverage of Fashion Week (or is it Fashion Weak - I am not the first to say that) in New York City. And at the end of it all, I had this thought - I'm sure I'm not the first person to have had this thought, but it was one of those"lightbulb" moments for me.
Do male fashion designers (that is, men who are designing clothing for women - men designing clothing for men is an entirely different issue) actually LIKE women? Or, is it that design programs teach an attitude about the female form (the way that medical schools used to teach that women all suffered from "hysteria" and all complaints of pain and illness are in our heads) that sort of skews the whole process into feeling that trying to design attractive clothing for a creature that actually has curves is just too much of a challenge. Let's get to the "meat" of things here, folks; the creation of "curves" requires something other than muscle, sinew, and bones - the dreaded FAT - there, I said it. FAT. Adipose tissue. Padding. "Junk in the trunk" - who came up with that one...
My feeling is that either you believe that male designers don't like women (versus actively disliking women or feeling hostility toward women) and don't appreciate what makes women women (and that is curves...anyone looking at the current crop of models really is going to have a tough time saying that they actually look like women. I'm starting to think that the poor things are actually starting to look like aliens, so from my point of view, I almost wonder if the designers view them as non-human, too). And, if that is so, then why do we end up with stuff coming from some female designers that is pretty much unwearable, too?
So, then, perhaps part of the villainy of the situation comes down from the design schools - which are of course part of the whole "fashion industry conspiracy" made up of designers, magazines, agencies, and so on and so forth. Which means, to me, then, that part of the problem is sheer unadulterated laziness on the parts of the schools. They don't want to have to teach how to design clothing for females that have bits that "stick out" - it is far easier to design clothing that just hangs from the neck and the shoulders and then just drops from there. No dips, no indentations, so clever seaming, nuthin'.
The first designer that I ever heard of was Frederick Worth in Paris. Now, he certainly was a man of his time and was designing out of that period where they used corsets for teeny waists and big skirts and bustles to emphasize the rearend and so on and so forth. And certainly there were women even in those days who would do things to themselves - even having bottom ribs removed - so that they'd get the "proper look". But there was never any doubt that Worth's interest was in emphasizing the natural female form - all curves, all the time. And there have been plenty of male designers who have worked with the challenge of the female form with tremendous success. It's only been over the past 10-15 years that we've seen this real effort to suppress the female form and demonize it. I'm not sure if this is gender politics or just some sort of "fat-hatred" but it certainly seems that way.
But one of the things IS -- what if these folks had to design for people with curves - from a skills standpoint -- would they know what to do? How to do it?
I think it's very possible that the answer to that is -- no.