Comments on: Jean Paul Gaultier Doesn't Get It

By: Dave Munger

Dave Munger — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:57:53 +0000

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.

By: oddybobo

oddybobo — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:45:13 +0000

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.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:20:35 +0000

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.)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:58:37 +0000

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.

By: Wickedpinto

Wickedpinto — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:57:39 +0000

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.

By: gino

gino — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:03:43 +0000

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.

By: Agent Bedhead

Agent Bedhead — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:49:57 +0000

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.

By: celebitchy

celebitchy — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:27:12 +0000

oh and that poor girl is so pear-shaped that I thought this was Photoshopped when I first saw it.

By: celebitchy

celebitchy — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:25:58 +0000

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.

By: phin

phin — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:39:59 +0000

Bloody hell, that girls knickers are bigger than the sails on the the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.

By: docweasel

docweasel — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:38:46 +0000

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.

By: beautifulatrocities

beautifulatrocities — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:08:37 +0000

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….