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Plus Size Model

Gary Dakin, Head Of Ford's Plus-Size Models: 'It's Been A Struggle'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

The Times UK recently caught up with Gary Dakin, who runs the plus-size division of Ford Models. He represents Crystal Renn (he even walked her down t...

Plus-Size WOMEN Featured In June's Glamour (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

June's issue of French Glamour features plus-size women--not plus-side models--talking about XXL fashion. Actually, the ladies are blogueuses, an exqu...

Black Plus-Size Models Are Underrepresented, Says Tasha Fierce

Jezebel.com | Tasha Fierce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Until the straight size world fully accepts their black models, plus size black models are unlikely to achieve any more success than their thin sister...

Big Girls, Real Food: Beauty, Health, and the American Diet

Leona Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Leona Palmer

What do Julia Roberts, Jamie Oliver, Full Figure Fashion Week, and my grandmother have in common? Dinner.

Crystal Renn is Big on Beauty and Brains: Why This Positive Plus-Size Model is Poised to Change Fashion

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Marissa Bronfman

Gorgeous, opinionated and wise beyond her years, plus-size model Crystal Renn is shaking some sense into the fashion industry and showing everyone that bigger is indeed beautiful.

Toronto Fashion Week: Jessica Biffi Dreams Big

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Marissa Bronfman

Effervescent young designer Jessica Biffi is fresh off Project Runway Canada and already designing three different lines for stylish women of all shapes and sizes.

Toronto Fashion Week: A Fragmented Fall

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Marissa Bronfman

Fashion insiders and online voices are fixated on Canadian design stars who have no intention of staying at home -- because they can't survive without wooing the rest of the world.

Plus-Size Models Don't Make A Difference To Consumers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

A recent study by Arizona State University, the University of Cologne in Germany and Erasmus University in the Netherlands shows that using plus-size ...

"Plus"

Leona Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Leona Palmer

The common response when I state my job is, "But you're not plus! What size are you?" Maybe a better question is: what size are we supposed to be? What do we expect a "plus" model to look like?

Brooklyn Decker, Crystal Renn And Alessandra Ambrosio Lounge In The Sun For June's Glamour (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

WWD reports that Glamour has just shot a model trifecta for its June cover: Sports Illustrated cover girl Brooklyn Decker, plus-size bombshell Crystal...

Robin Givhan: How Can We Celebrate All Sizes When Some Are Unhealthy?

Washington Post | Robin Givhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

In her Sunday Washington Post column, fashion editor Robin Givhan addresses the emerges of the plus-size model. She points to V Magazine's recent size...

Australia's Next Top Model Judge Charlotte Dawson Slams Plus-Size Models, Says They'll Only Do Target Catalogues

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Australia's Next Top Model judge Charlotte Dawson said there's no market for plus-size models in her country, Ninemsn reports. "I would like someon...

Cindy Crawford's Skinny Model Solution: Stop Buying Magazines That Feature Them

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

It seems like the modeling industry is on a yo-yo diet, between Glamour printing images ofplus-size women in its pages and Ralph Lauren retouching an ...

Big Is Back! Aussie Harper's Bazaar Features Anorexic-Turned-Plus-Size Model

pipeline.refinery29.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

With all the hoopla over '50s pin-up glamour making a comeback and Beth Ditto gracing the inaugural issue of LOVE, it's about time the curvier gals ma...

The Plus-Sized Life

Leona Palmer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Leona Palmer

The amazing thing about being as a teen girl in this country is how much power you have.