Fashion's version of Where's Wally: Where's the plus size model

Just a quick post, as it is nearly midnight and my head is saying "Go to bed, NOW".

But I just had to make a comment about Vogue Italia's June 2011 cover.

Editor, Franca Sozzani has cast three plus-size models for the magazine's latest cover. Models Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine, and Robyn Lawley were photographed by Steven Meisel. This is the first time plus-size models have been chosen to model on the cover since the early noughties.
Now, am I the only one that had to do a double take on the cover, and check there were no plus-sized models hiding in the corners? These women are stunning and it is undeniably an incredibly beautiful cover, but really, to brand them as plus-sized seems wrong. Sure, they are curvier than runway models such as the super skinny Abby Kershaw, however they are still quite slender.

Oh well, at least small steps (or should I say, "plus-sized" ones) are being trodden by the fashion industry to represent healthier bodies.

Well, hello again...

Helloooo blogosphere!

It has been a while- and by while, I mean over a year! Oh, how time flies. I didn't even comprehend how long it had been since I last blogged. But I guess, as usual, life got in the way.

I'm not sure what brought me back here now. I guess, boredom, and that I was looking through some really old images I had nabbed from various sites and saved in the "My Pictures" folder. Which is far exceeding its capacity with hundreds of pictures (which are all a couple years old)!

It's kind of surreal to look at them, because each image is a visual representation of my taste back then. Most of the images have aged gracefully- remaining timeless. Whilst others seem so out of date- a marker of what was good in the past, but now is not.

Here are some of my faves. All of which I believe are still beautiful, years on. So look for a glimpse back at the fashion memories that were....