Some of them were even making fun of her fashion show compared to Victoria's Secret. A lot of fonts had a problem with Rihanna having women of various different sizes and body shapes in her fashion show. Just look at how they responded to what Rihanna did with her fashion show. Talking about it's all apart of the fantasy and that these women should be models cause those are the women they want to look like. Though, yes, a lot of it is to appeal to the beauty standards of white men, a lot of fonts have admitted themselves that they prefer female models to be skinny and pretty and fit into that same standard. I don't think it's an issue with the gender of the designer but just the fashion industry as a whole. Out Magazine covers the latest and best in fashion, news, entertainment, and gay lifestyle issues of trending interest in the growing LGBT community.
And not every male fashion designer is gay and even most female fashion designers be picking the same kind of models. Women can design male clothes, men can design female clothes. You don't have to be a woman to be an artist and design clothes.