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.
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