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The Next Step After Fashion Going Bigger: Smaller?
October 13, 2006 by Designer EllaA comment on The Sydney Morning Herald’s interview with (plus-sized) Velvet (below) reminded me of another issue with fashion …
Veronique,
As for people wanting diversity - tell that to American Vogue and most fashion designers. They want Nazi uniformity: thin, thin, thinner.
A model agency in New York had the hide to whinge that Spain was discriminating against naturally thin models. Well, hello? The fashion world discriminates against anyone who isn’t a swizel stick.
Another discriminated group is the short. There are petite models, but not as far as below 5 feet petite. (And I don’t think there are petite plus-sized models, because those clothes barely exist! But the bodies do!)
Perhaps it’s too soon about which to do anything, as it’s great we are in the midst of broadening fashion models—but I can surely talk about it!
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