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Plus Size Models

The Skinny of Fashion's Body-Image Issue

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 05.22.2013 | Style
Summer Rayne Oakes

Model Kate Dillon and Summer Rayne Oakes talk about body image and fashion.

Why The Fashion Industry Needs Plus-Size Models

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Adams | Posted 05.15.2013 | Style

These days, the term "plus-size" seems to be assigned to models with the slightest of curves (ahem, Robyn Lawley), but it turns out there's a reason f...

PHOTO: Meet Justine LeGault, Elle Quebec's Plus-Size Cover Model

Posted 05.03.2013 | Style

Three cheers for Elle Quebec, who decided to give their readers a gift this month with an awesome new cover model. Justine LeGault, who poses for the ...

Plus Size Model Launches Masterclass For Beginners In The Industry

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Adams | Posted 04.17.2013 | Style

After years of silence on the matter, the fashion industry finally seems poised to embrace fuller, less svelte figures. Plus-size models like Robyn La...

PHOTOS: U.K. Retailer Debuts A Look Book Full of Diversity

The Huffington Post | Renee Jacques | Posted 04.12.2013 | Style

Debenhams just released its Spring 2013 look book, and it's quite different from the usual ones we see. Instead of sticking with the norm of super-ski...

Body Image in the Fashion World

Nadia Aboulhosn | Posted 03.11.2013 | Style
Nadia Aboulhosn

Fashion doesn't mean you have to be skinny. Fashion, to me, is feeling comfortable and confident in clothes that display your personality. Acceptance is the true key to happiness.

PHOTOS: This Plus-Size Lingerie Photo Shoot Is Simply Stunning

The Huffington Post | Jessica Misener | Posted 12.12.2012 | Style

GORGEOUS.

Viewing These Pictures Might Change Body Obsession

The Huffington Post | Nina Bahadur | Posted 11.16.2012 | Women

Why are we obsessed with female bodies that are thin? A new study from England's Durham University offers two theories -- and one possible solution. ...

Plus-Size Models: Why Are They Always Naked?

Chastity Garner Valentine | Posted 01.14.2013 | Style
Chastity Garner Valentine

Magazines don't care about plus-size fashion and they just want to gain attention from the naked fat girls in their magazines. Clothes just get in the way of that agenda.

Plus-Size Magazines Face Unique Challenges

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 08.27.2012 | Style

The concept of plus-size has made inroads in the fashion industry, from the increasing presence of plus-size models in magazines spreads and ads to th...

Will Kardashian Kurves Give a Real Plus-Size Girl a Big Chance?

Erica Watson | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Erica Watson

As a plus-size woman, I'm ecstatic that someone as stylish as the Kardashians have decided to make jeans with girls like me in mind. Yes, "big girls" need love (and jeans) too.

Latinas Emerge in the Plus Size Modeling Industry

Monique Frausto | Posted 08.30.2012 | Latino Voices
Monique Frausto

For me these women are more than plus size models; they're a representation of today's hard working, accomplished, proud Latina. They're proud of the curves they were born with and they want nothing more than to see more women like them in this industry.

PHOTO: Yet Another Plus-Size Model Strips Down

Posted 05.21.2012 | Style

For all the talk about including "real women" in fashion spreads, it seems like plus-size models only pop up on special occasions, like Vogue Italia's...

Is There A Place For Average-Sized Models?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.31.2012 | Style

Plus-size model Marquita Pring made headlines when she revealed she uses padding to please clients. Marquita is a size 12-14. But when companies hire ...

'Unrealistic Beauty Standards Hurt Guys, Too'

| Annabel Weiner | Posted 01.31.2012 | Home

This is a teen-written article from The Communicator, the student-run print and online newspaper of Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...

Plus Size Magazine 'Reveals' Low Weight Among Models

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 03.14.2012 | Women
Margaret Wheeler Johnson

We don't need to see the research to believe the claims. Can anyone look at runway models and think that they weigh anything near what the non-models do?

Naughty But Nice Rob

Model Emme: Skinny Girls Get Paid More

HuffingtonPost.com | Naughty But Nice Rob | Posted 12.01.2011 | Celebrity

The world's highest-earning plus-size model, Emme, doesn't consider herself overweight but insists it's difficult for ladies of her size to make the k...

WATCH: Who's Angry Over Plus Size Fashion Week?

Posted 12.27.2011 | Style

It's Full Figured Fashion Week in New York. At least onscreen. "Fashion Week Internationale," a new fashion series that's airing on VICE.com, chro...

PHOTOS: Plus-Size Model Lands A Sultry Cover

The Huffington Post | Marielle Bingham | Posted 12.03.2011 | Style

You may remember Robyn Lawley, the down-to-earth Aussie model who made waves when she covered Vogue Italia with two other plus-size models. The Vog...

WATCH: 'Once You Go Big, You Never Go Twig!'

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 11.13.2011 | Style

They're not strutting the major New York Fashion Week runways... yet. But plus-size fashionistas are becoming more and more accepted, scoring magazine...

PHOTOS: Plus-Size Fashion Show Sparks Weight Debate

The Huffington Post | Erin Clements | Posted 10.25.2011 | Style

The media has been making a sizable effort to embrace curvy models lately. Its plain to see across the fashion and media worlds. Vogue Italia chos...

Nicola Formichetti: I Do Work With Fat People

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.05.2011 | Style

Nicola Formichetti found himself in a tight spot on Tuesday when a W profile on the designer hit the web. Now he has responded with a Facebook campaig...

Plus-Sized Models: Move Over Gisele, Brazilian Bombshell Fluvia Lacerda Strikes a Pose for Vogue

Erica Watson | Posted 08.31.2011 | Style
Erica Watson

In a fashion industry that is obsessed with size, full-figured Brazilian model Fluvia Lacerda is showing the world that not only is bigger truly better, it's also marketable.

Big Girls Need Love Too: Full Figured Fashion Week Takes the Big Apple by Storm!

Erica Watson | Posted 08.16.2011 | Style
Erica Watson

FFFWeek™ is a much needed breath of fresh air for curvy women like me -- women who know that beauty and fashion is not 1 "sample size" fits all.

Vogue Italia's Plus Size Cover/Issue: Hit or Miss?

Malcolm Harris | Posted 08.02.2011 | Style
Malcolm Harris

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