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Plus Size Model Poses With Straight Size Model In Controversial Spread
As evidenced by last year’s Vogue Italia spread, naked plus size models tend to get people talking. Katya Zharkova is the latest girl to shed her clothes, and she’s making quite a statement.
American Apparel Launches Awkward Plus-Sized Model Hunt
If you had to find one good thing about the way American Apparel casts its models, it’s that the brand always seems to have a diverse group of young women wearing its clothes. But all of those women are really, really skinny, and now that American Apparel is selling up to a size extra large it’s awkwardly trying to find bigger models to “fill out” those sizes.
Marquita Pring Teaches Us All About Plus-Size Model ‘Padding’
Marquita Pring looked stunning in the pages of Vogue Italia‘s plus-size issue, and Women’s Wear Daily was able to sit down with the 21-year-old model to discuss the industry.
Full Figured Fashion Week Is Back And Almost Sold Out!
On the heels of last year’s success, the third annual Full Figured Fashion Week is returning to New York. Beginning on June 16, international designers specializing in sizes 12+ will debut their designs in a whirlwind of presentations spanning three days.
ANTM‘s Whitney Thompson: There’s No Soul In Modeling
Two years ago, Whitney Thompson won America’s Next Top Model. While this would be a very cool accomplishment for anyone, it was especially awesome that Thompson won while being branded “plus size,” making her the first plus size model to take the ANTM crown. We love Thompson’s real talk, so we excerpted some of her interview with Sunny Gold over at the Huffington Post.
Marie Claire’s EIC Brags About New Plus Size Columnist
On Thursday night, Marie Claire’s editor in chief Joanna Coles taught a class for the Learning Annex. She dished the dirt with designer Narciso Rodriguez, confirmed that the magazine was indeed partaking in another reality television show, and gushed about a new edition to Marie Claire’s masthead.
French Glamour Features Plus-Size Women, Not Models
Well, this is interesting. After all the hullaballoo yesterday (and this morning!) over Glamour’s June swimsuit issue featuring plus-size model Crystal Renn, Victoria’s Secret angel Alessandra Ambrosio, S.I. Swimsuit Issue covergirl Brooklyn Decker on the front, it turns out that Glamour’s francophone counterpart has gone and done something relatively novel: they’ve featured regular, plus-size people wearing fashionable, plus-size clothing in a four-page spread in the magazine.
The Downside To Plus-Size
Ever since Glamour put curvy model Lizzie Miller in their September issue, designers seem to be making gestures towards the non-emaciated consumer. But what is the effect of all of this plus-sized plus-size buzz?





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