Julien Macdonald: Plus-Size Models Are A Joke

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Sometimes fashion designers are better seen and not heard.

Case in point: Welsh designer Julien Macdonald, who joins the ranks of Karl Lagerfeld in the foot-in-mouth department, after calling plus-size models a "joke," The Sun reports.

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[sulalives]

08:42 PM on 06/24/2010

million dollar painting realist style sit in museums...skinny images straight and edges are just not that eye catching...looking at curves and surfaces and textures just plain beautiful...images of women looking like men do not sale women products -just do not get it for me a man wearing a female images and saying purchase this outfit...place a curve on the runway that outfit is purchase...he she looks just to do sale...and those buying are Big Beautiful Women who have the money...

[Bruckley]

09:05 AM on 06/17/2010

Fat just ain't artistic.

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

11:27 AM on 06/16/2010

The man on her right, in the photo. He's kneeling, right?

[cnobody]

02:01 AM on 06/16/2010

the author of that article has a comprehension problem. he didn't call plus sized models "a joke." he said that the show, if it were to have a plus size model win, would be a joke.

[Feanor]

07:26 PM on 06/15/2010

He's right.

[JJovana]

05:10 PM on 06/15/2010

I forgot to add onto my 1st post, I dont get the obsession with adolecent teen girls without drivers license as a tool to sell clothes to adult, wealthy women? How doest that work?

Miuccia Prada is THE biggest example of this. That woman is OBSESSED with teen boyish looking highschool girls. Her current muse Lindsay Wixon is 15 years old!!!

[Feanor]

04:56 PM on 06/16/2010

They are in business to make money by selling clothes, not to appeal to your sensibilities.

Clothes look better on thin bodies. It's just a fact. That's why you won't see many 'plus-sized' mannequins. (Look up the French word for 'fashion model'. btw.)

When they use thin models, the clothes look better, so they sell more - even to 'plus-sized' women.

It doesn't really matter what they look like on the customers, because everyone knows that the correct answer to "Do I look fat in this?" is "NO".

[JJovana]

09:47 AM on 06/17/2010

I completely agree with you, dont get me wrong. Beautiful haute couture is made for thin tall women, and it looks amazing. Fashion after all is fantasy. I find it kinda silly that women who buy expensive stuff advertised by teen girls expect to look like that.

[ECB]

04:18 PM on 06/15/2010

Nothing wrong with a "little meat" on the bone !

[logic123]

03:15 PM on 06/15/2010

Don't get me wrong, curves are more attractive than waifs but when I see someone over weight modeling my first thought is their promoting being sick. There's no question people who are over weight are at a higher rate of risk for heart problems and many other health problems so why call it acceptable...and beautiful?

[anneenna]

04:41 PM on 06/15/2010

Thing is, though, most 'plus size' models are between a size 8 to 12, which is usually within the bounds of healthy weight range.

Also, there's no question that people who are well underweight - as most models are - are a higher rate of risk of health problems, so why is that considered acceptable and beautiful?

[logic123]

04:50 PM on 06/15/2010

I'm sorry but size 8-12 is not in a healthy weight range. Your information is flat wrong. Depending on a persons height and bone structure I would argue that size 4-6 should keep weight proportionate with height.

[seachild]

02:44 PM on 06/15/2010

He/she wanted Amy Winehouse as a model. 'nough said.

[Aesthete]

02:11 PM on 06/15/2010

Many of the ultra-thin models are actually underdeveloped teenaged girls. Unfortunately, they are used to market clothing to full-grown women who, if they are healthy, have curvier, more developed figures than someone in their mid-teens. What I find really disgusting is a boyishly thin and flat figure to which breast implants have been added. Such a body does not exist in nature.

[kcinpa]

01:16 AM on 06/17/2010

Runway models generally do not sport breast implants.

[AfroGoddess]

01:33 PM on 06/15/2010

Preface: I'm a big girl and I love my body.

That being said, I agree with this Julien Macdonald. I've been sick of seeing fuller figured women on ANTM primarily because ANTM sets these women up to fail. If they last until the stage where they have to do go-sees, that's where they really break them. It's emotionally abusive.

Couture models are thin. It's the way things are. If there was an ANTM for Lane Bryant, Ashley Stewart, and The Avenue, then waifs would need to step aside. It's like auditioning men to play Tyler Perry's Madea and throwing an Asian and White man on the list. Aint. Gonna. Happen!

We can wax poetic about how awful it is that fat acceptance doesn't extend towards the couture clothing industry. Ack-ack, put-put, spit on them. I'm not going to look towards the drones to demystify fat folks and show how beautiful we are.

Instead of watching cheap, tacky ol' ANTM, we need to push for shows that celebrate all sizes REALISTICALLY.

[mercury613]

01:07 PM on 06/15/2010

America's Next Top Model was already a joke.

[Jced]

12:39 PM on 06/15/2010

Ef him!

[santiago sherwood]

01:19 PM on 06/15/2010

Plus Size is a joke, so these pre-puberty models are child exploitation?

[Chandidevi]

12:26 PM on 06/15/2010

I am sure that Julien would have ridiculed Marilyn Monroe. A woman is not meant to be built like a man...straight as a stick and boney. But, that is what gay men have done to the fashion industry...they want women to look like a man. It's ridiculous. A woman is naturally voluptuous. It's the way nature made us. The ideal as portrayed by gay men in the fashion industry is less than feminine.

[imayes]

12:29 PM on 06/15/2010

Yup. Here's another one of those "ugly" women (see second photo - Guys, be sure and bring a napkin for the drool before clicking the link):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/charlie-crists-oil-spill_n_612709.html

[Feanor]

04:51 PM on 06/16/2010

Marilyn Monroe was an actress, not a fashion model.

Fashionmodels have always been and always will be, as a rule, thin.

[ECB]

11:24 AM on 06/15/2010

What does this person know about real women ?

[imayes]

12:29 PM on 06/15/2010

He prefers the models. I like the real thing myself :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/charlie-crists-oil-spill_n_612709.html

[ECB]

04:14 PM on 06/15/2010

Nice !

[Exene]

01:16 PM on 06/15/2010

Because there are no tall thin "real" women?

[ECB]

04:15 PM on 06/15/2010

Define thin.

[Feanor]

07:27 PM on 06/15/2010

Fanned.