Plus-size models are headed to New York Fashion Week
According to what I heard on the TV news tonight, half the women in the United States are size 14 and over. They are not waifs, anorexic or teenagers. ( Not that being a teenager means being non-obese these days).
Nobody can agree on what size is really representative ( I cannot remember what size dresses my mother used to wear , but she was thin/normal it seemed then and she definitely did not wear a zero or whatever it is models usually wear.
People like Jackie Kennedy Onassis got around all this by having clothes especially designed just for THEM
And there are still quite a few seamstresses and people like that around, I have noticed, especially in Manhattan
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Ashley Graham will be among the plus-sized models featured at New York Fashion Week.
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Plus-size models are coming to New York Fashion Week.
IMG Models has announced that it will promote its roster of curvier women in the same show package as their top girls for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which kicks off Thursday.
IMG — which reps supermodels including Gisele Bündchen, Kate Upton, Chanel Iman and Karlie Kloss — announced last week it had signed plus-size stunners Julie Henderson, Ashley Graham, Danielle Redman, Inga Eiriksdottir and Marquita Pring, and we are told that they will be promoted to casting agents and designers for Fashion Week shows.
A fashion insider explained, “IMG is the first to include plus-size models in their show package along with models like Gisele.”
Many are calling for more effort in the fashion industry to diversify across race, age and size to present a wider array of beauty.
IMG Models has announced that it will promote its roster of curvier women in the same show package as their top girls for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which kicks off Thursday.
IMG — which reps supermodels including Gisele Bündchen, Kate Upton, Chanel Iman and Karlie Kloss — announced last week it had signed plus-size stunners Julie Henderson, Ashley Graham, Danielle Redman, Inga Eiriksdottir and Marquita Pring, and we are told that they will be promoted to casting agents and designers for Fashion Week shows.
A fashion insider explained, “IMG is the first to include plus-size models in their show package along with models like Gisele.”
Many are calling for more effort in the fashion industry to diversify across race, age and size to present a wider array of beauty.
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