Plus-Size Clothing Designer Holds Show After Being Kicked Off Milan Calendar (PHOTOS, POLL)

Designer Elena Miroglio held her "Elena Miro" fashion show on Wednesday morning after being excluded from Milan Fashion Week's official schedule, both AFP and Libero report. For the last five years, Elena Miro has opened Milan Fashion Week, but things changed this season.

Head of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion Mario Boselli explained the council's reasoning, telling AFP, "Some labels just weren't in line with what ready-to-wear week should be. We wanted to champion the values of creativity to reaffirm Milan's role in the world." One of Miroglio's models, Penelope Benson, remarked to the AFP, "Real women are the ones with the money. We can't relate to it."

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[catriley]

11:11 PM on 10/12/2010

Actually, the clothes look so much better on these "plus-size" models. Of course, we all know they aren't even close to "plus-size" which would be a 16+ in a store. They are more like tall size 8s. But the clothes actually look accessible, and we can see how they'd really look on us. I'm a size 6/8 and I get so grossed out by the fashion models with their ribs and femurs sticking out, that it ruins the clothes for me. Victoria's Secret catalog is one of the worst... horribly boney women with implants. I keep grabbing my checkbook and looking for the address to sponsor one of them....

[Theresa Ruth Howard]

10:05 AM on 10/02/2010

I think this is a perfect example of how the industry tries to erase women. Not only are they requiring women to be size 0's (which is nothing- and a 00 which is twice less then nothing) but if you are something (larger than a 2) then we will ban you from our world. It really is quite hateful and bravo to French Elle for featuring plus sized- or should I say "Regular" sized women on their April issue. On the 0 being nothing front check out Taylor Owen Ramsey's essay about the subject of the double standards between men and women in the Hollywood http://mybodymyimage.com/taylor-owen-ramesy-on-double-standard

[sulalives]

09:15 AM on 09/26/2010

"Penelope Benson, remarked to the AFP, "Real women are the ones with the money. We can't relate to it."
She gets it...Milan had it chance this year and blow it for what...hate the rich week

[jeremylh1]

05:19 AM on 09/26/2010

If these woman are "plus sized" models, then they should be just "models". Since these woman look natural and like most woman do. "Runway models" should be called, well, "runway models" because that's their job to look a certain way.

[nomadsborker]

01:18 AM on 09/26/2010

Love the comments that these are "normal" weight women.

Hey, whatever gets you through the day...

[SuperMoncho]

04:47 PM on 09/25/2010

Why are people so upset about them being called plus size? just let it go, in comparison to whats considered a regular model by the industry, these women are plus sized. The girls look great, who cares what they are called.

[Beth Boyle]

01:44 PM on 09/25/2010

Most of these women are not plus sized they are normal weight women.

[GraniteSkyline]

10:07 AM on 09/25/2010

They all looked lovely--explain to me why they are too "plus-sized" for the runway in Milan.

[JediGoddess]

03:15 AM on 09/25/2010

These woman look like average woman. Plus sized??!! Our ideal of beautiful is so skewed. How about we start calling the skinny/anorexic models Minus-sized.

[Astorac]

03:19 AM on 09/25/2010

Indeed. I'm not sure how they could be considered even remotely "plus sized".

[MaeBayB]

09:29 AM on 09/25/2010

I was about to comment, but you beat me to it....this is so funny...I clicked each picture looking for the "plus sized" woman...sooo funny.

[MKSinSA]

10:13 AM on 09/25/2010

I heard that. My girlfriend is about a size 6 (maybe 8?) and will be horrified to learn she's a "plus" size.

[sillybilly]

10:09 PM on 09/24/2010

WHO is that model in slide #8???? She is stunning.

[santiago sherwood]

01:40 AM on 09/25/2010

Several of the models don't look plus size but normal and very attractive.

[ObamaYouBetcha]

09:30 PM on 09/24/2010

These women look WONDERFUL. What a refreshing change from gaunt, hungry faces and sinewy stringy bodies with caved-in chests and stomachs. Apparently, showing healthy fit women in lovely clothes is not championing the "values" of Milan's fashion week. Sad, very sad.

[Cynthia Jendrejcak]

03:15 PM on 09/24/2010

I don't know if I would classify any of those models as plus-sized per se but they all look amazing. They're very healthy and strong in appearance, not on death's door like many in fashion. I would love for there to be more woman like these represented in the media (and on television/ in movies) showing young girls and women that yes you can be lean and physically fit and sexy without necessarily being a walking skeleton. I'm also personally really impressed by the clothing line itself being shown. They look like real clothing that real people could buy and wear, and I like it.

[Red Star Rogue]

10:29 AM on 09/24/2010

the problem with Plus Size models as i understand it is cash. i was on a airplance next to a designer and this is what she said. It costs more to use plus sized models, it just costs us more. if you have a size 0-2 dress then almost every single model who is a 0-2 can wear it. its the problem of standardization, any given group of ten size 8 women will not be able to wear the same dresses and more importantly from a runway perspective will not look the same in them. there is a huge difference between a 36C-24-32 and a 34DD-26-36. as in all mass marketing industries it comes down to standardization of capital, the models and the dresses, and saving money on that capital. the women are not really important part of the show, unfortunately they are living clothes hangers and need to be built as such.

[catriley]

11:08 PM on 10/12/2010

Coat hangers and little boys = the supermodel ideal figure. They don't want our lady parts disrupting their designs.

[Svana]

02:55 AM on 09/24/2010

I am sooo tired of the model look....a bit of ligament holding up bones..... walking cadavers, flesh, eye cake and bones wearing unwearable fabric.....this was soooo exciting and refreshing..

Bring on the models that have bodies like Sophia Loren and Rachel Welch or Marilyn Monroe etc etc.................

[Laryssa]

11:40 PM on 09/23/2010

5'10 also!! Don't forget that she's tall!!! Plus size?!? Really?!?

This has been Reeeeaally, with Laryssa and Chuy!