Wow. That photo=a reminder that event though plus-sized models aren't the normal beauty standard, they are still SO genetically blessed (and thus, models, duh).
@midwestdesigner: I'm not really sure that that high fashion models = the beauty standard. This woman is still a fairly thin, large-chested blond -- pretty close to the standard, I would think. But yes, she's gorgeous.
Look designer peeps and hangers-on, you have to let us fatties be a part of this thing called "fash-un" or we will WALK AROUND NAKED! And that's a promise not a threat.
YEESH! That outfit is awful on that poor girl. "Let's get a 'plus-size' girl and put her in the least flattering thing we can find! That will show them!" Le sigh.
@rodmanstreet: The outfit is fine. It's just a couple of sizes too small for her. That's what happens when you shove a size 8-10 model into a size 2 dress. They should have gotten an appropriately sized dress for her.
@sweetbeans: The worst part is that a pair of skin toned control top panty house would have stood out far, far less than the underwear them put her in, and smoothed the lines
@Evie Havok: Good call. The problem isn't the model's figure -- the problem is the dress.
Yes, I'm a fashion heretic.
(I feel disloyal, too, since the man is at least trying to show on different sizes of women. Elena MirĂ³ has been doing it for years -- someone on his team couldn't get a clue from her?)
When they say "supportive underwear" do they mean something like spanx, or do they mean a bra? I don't really see what's wrong with latter. I'm generally uncomfortable when I'm bra less, so maybe that issue was taken into consideration for the curvier models? But then again, this is the fashion industry. I'm probably just being naive.
EDIT: Oh wait, I think I read that incorrectly, are they saying somebody threw a fit because someone thought it'd be more comfortable for the models to have "supportive underwear?" (Sorry, I'm obviously a little confused)
@Jeenzy: It appears that the stylist who stepped in shoved all the tiny girls underwears on the 'plus' girls which made them look a bit lumpy and may or may not have cut them! Yikes.
So, the presence of some average-sized women who needed to wear actual underwear with the dresses caused a complete meltdown? Further proof that high fashion is more of an abstract concept than an industry dedicated to actually making clothes for people to wear.
Gisele--you are a lovely, vibrant, pregnant celebrity married to a football star. This ALONE ups your chances of a tragic end, but you’re going to throw HELICOPTER PILOT in there? You’d think you’ve never seen an episode of E! True Hollywood Story!
@Highsmith: Piloting plus UN automatically makes me think of Angelina Jolie, actually. Though if you wanted to claim that Angelina is a superhero, I probably wouldn't argue.
@cate3710: I feel even wimpier now that I put a band-aid on my papercut - that I got ... uh ... climbing a dangerous mountain ... no, wait .... saving Bolvian orphans ... actually ... it was wrestling an African lion. Yeah, that's it.
@Penny: Even though the size itself isn't "plus", a model who is size eight to ten is considered plus sized. Size two girls model the stuff for the size eights, size eights for the fourteens!
The Slumdog thing is so shitty. The kids, who, imo were the best thing in the movie, have been promised a free education for a whole years work. That's worth a tiny fraction of what a child actor would be paid, even in India. They are still living in the slums, and the little boy's shack has been demolished so his family is sleeping under a tarp on the ground, without even a roof. So he's worse off than he was before. The parents don't know anything about the so-called trust funds that Danny Boyle's begun to talk about since this scandal came to light. This is total exploitation of poor people who had no legal counsel.
It's amusing how after dating Marilyn Manson, people assume that Evan Rachel Wood is capable of dating pretty much anyone. And really, can you blame them?
George Clooney is getting more tawdry by the second.
Katy Perry strikes me as just an over-eager high school freshman who wants to make everyone like her by being "wild" and "outspoken." I get the feeling that 4 years from now she'll look back and think "I was a huge tool."
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Yes, I'm a fashion heretic.
(I feel disloyal, too, since the man is at least trying to show on different sizes of women. Elena MirĂ³ has been doing it for years -- someone on his team couldn't get a clue from her?)
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"Her body is different! Her thighs touch! She needs a bra! THIS SHALL NOT STAND!"
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EDIT: Oh wait, I think I read that incorrectly, are they saying somebody threw a fit because someone thought it'd be more comfortable for the models to have "supportive underwear?" (Sorry, I'm obviously a little confused)
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Pwned so good.
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George Clooney is getting more tawdry by the second.
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kthxbai!