Here is something to ponder. What gives with the current plus-sized mania that is sweeping the world?
I mean, is it just us, or is the whole size-thing kind of spanning into the farthest corners of the fashion realm? As recently as four months ago, Karl Lagerfeld was defending skinny models and claiming that "no one wants to see round women." And then in January he shot the quite curvy Miss Dirty Martini for V Magazine's size issue. Although...it must be pointed out that Martini did not don any Chanel clothing, simply accessories.
And then V features plus-sized model Crystel Renn next to her leaner doppelganger in nearly identical clothing and poses. Only Renn is FAB and hitting every mark and giving major face when her counterpart is tragically bland and forgettable. Coincidence? I think not.
(Renn also walked the runway in a Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring 2006 show.)
Then, LOVE Magazine, for it's third issue ups the ante with eight different covers, each starring an iconic supermodel in not much more than her birthday suit.
LOVE's editor-in-chief Katie Grand told Vogue that "For this issue of LOVE, we took eight women who are generally acknowledged as the most beautiful in the world, got them to show off their bodies -- widely regarded as the most perfect in the world -- and photographed them all in exactly the same position for the cover,"
LOVE also printed their measurements in order to show how much they differed physically from one another. "The point is that 'perfection' is not fixed, timeless or transcendent. It varies, as the measurements of our cover girls show."
Yes, compared to Naomi Campbell, Amber Valletta, Lara Stone, Natalia Vodianova, Daria Werbowy, Jeneil Williams and Kristen McMenamy, that Kate Moss is such a heffer.
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