You should all listen up to what this website has to say about “Why You should not Focus on Weight Loss!”
It’s one of the most inspiring things I’ve read in a long time — and as you all know this is something close to my heart. Go go gadget real women on the catwalk!
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Beautiful! The Calvin Klein collection is beautiful and so feminine. The nuance of color and the fluidity of the silks used in many of the pieces is absolutely stunning. There also seemed to be a seamless feature to this collection, which I simply adore. Overall, the collection seems to be a great hit, the designs [...]
This month’s Bust Magazine (a very bodacious mag with a feminist twist) features a great interview with Velvet, the plus-sized model who caused a media frenzy when Jean Paul Gaultier sent her down the runway in October.
Though the article isn’t available online (sniffle), here’s a snippet;
Bust: If you could dictate the future of the fashion [...]
This month’s Vogue magazine features a fantastic excerpt from Alek Wek’s upcoming book - Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel.
Wek grew up in the war-torn Sudan, amidst strife and ongoing conflict, but since the day she was scouted by a modelling agency while shopping in London, Alek has been an international force on the [...]
The debate over a model’s age and weight is resurfacing with a vengeance. This week, 15 models were kicked off a Raffaella Curiel fashion show in Rome for being too thin, the Model Health Inquiry in Britain recommended a ban on girls under the age of 16 and the Australian Fashion Council is heading in [...]
Madrid is not Paris. Madrid is not Milan. Madrid is not New York. Madrid isn’t even London. But still, the organisers of the Madrid Fashion week took a stance on “skinny” earlier this month. I was lucky to be able to be there on the 18th of september when the Fashion Week opened, and I [...]