The Agent is laid up for the second time in as many weeks with a migraine, so today is officially dubbed “blockquote madness.” From the Daily Mail:
Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier found his own way to comment on the ’size zero’ debate – by putting a larger model down the catwalk to show off his clothes.
Dressed in a daring black corsetry, the plus-sized model dwarfed her fellow waif-like catwalk queens.
Clearly more of a size 20 than the controversial model Size 0, this voluptuous woman proved big is beautiful as she strutted down the runway at Gaultier’s 30th anniversary show yesterday during fashion week in Paris.
C’mon Gaultier – don’t you have a better tactic in your arsenal than the a lame ass attempt to beg the question? Yeah, we get it – she’s not much of a clotheshanger, but she’s just as bad as the size 0 model in that she represents the unhealthy body image. Let’s try a size 6 next time, shall we?
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In a related note, a scene in Ugly Betty tomorrow nite has our hapless heroine carrying a plate of microwaved empanadas through the editorial offices of a high-fashionista mag, with the employees diving out of the way to avoid even touching carbohydrates….
ok, I don’t mind a healthy girl with padding and curves, but that’s ridiculous. That woman is obese. It unhealthy. They shouldn’t be celebrating people who are shortening their lives with grossly foolish behaviour. That would be like celebrating junkies and anorexics.
oh wait.
I agree, this is too far in the other direction. Can I vote for a more realistic size 8? (Just cause I’m an 8 working on being a 6 again.) Hope you are feeling better again soon.
oh and that poor girl is so pear-shaped that I thought this was Photoshopped when I first saw it.
Thank you for the well wishes, and I thank the powers that be for my laptop so I can lie in bed and type this.
Size 8 is great. I’m also a size 8 who used to be a size 6.
Anywhere from 6-10 would be much more realistic, rather than alienate 95% of the women who buy clothes.
i thought it was all about trying to sell realistic size clothes to realistic sized women.
something is wrong in the deigner world, and the models’ size, or lack of same, is but a symptom.
I think she is attractive in a way.
Give me this fat, obese bitch LONG before I would tolerate Brittany Spears.
This woman, is flawed, but she is still attractive in certain ways.
Ugly Betty is further proof that people of this ilk (that’s right ILK, IIIILLLLK I SAY!!!) are too stupid to even grasp concepts like uglyness and prettyness.
Ok, I’m going to say something unpopular but, well, that’s what I do.
Look, that woman MAY be very large but there are MORE women in the U.S. who look like her than those who look like runway models. The problem, however, is that designers tend to design only for very slim women, which means the majority of women are wearing less-than-flattering clothes.
I think Gaultier showed his true talent by putting a larger-sized woman on the runway and making her look good.
(And kudos to the model because you just KNOW she took a lot of crap and backstabbing in the dressing rooms from her skinny counterparts.)
I agree with kate. Probably mostly because I have thunder thighs and probably would fit into what she was wearing, quite nicely . . . I certainly don’t think she is obese though. bouncy yes, obese? No.
I think that what people find idiotic about this is that frogs and wimmin are to simple to grasp notions like “normal sized, attractive, and healthy looking”. It’s just fat or skinny. No one said Nicole Ritchie looks any better than Miss Instrument For Implying That All Non-Skinny Women Are Gross Blobs.
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