Links
Morning links
- Sarah Silverman’s new PSA taking aim at voter fraud measures is galvanizing, hilarious, and thoroughly NSFW. (Hollywood Reporter)
- Props to Ralph Lauren for being the first American designer to feature a plus-size model—size 12 Robyn Lawley—in a major ad campaign. I know there are going to be people who complain that Lawley’s body isn’t really all that plus, but I have been inside the belly of the beast and am here to assure you that this is progress.
- On a similar note, and rather wonderfully: The Cast of West Wing reunited for this PSA in support of nonpartisan candidate for Michigan’s Supreme Court Bridget Mary McCormack, sister of longtime West Wing cast member Mary McCormack.
- Just because I have successfully broken myself of my Real Housewives habit doesn’t mean I didn’t really, really enjoy this slideshow of Beverly Hills housewife Adrienne Maloof’s home, which she has just put on the market for $26 million. Because: wow. Money does not care where it goes, people.
- And here’s just a whole ton of street style from Milan, if you’re feeling inclined to gaze upon the glamour, the glory, and the all-out lunacy this Friday morning: Italian Vogue, Style.com, French Vogue, Marie Claire, Italian Grazia, Fashionologie, The Cut, Elle.
Posted on September 21st, 2012
Re: the “plus sized” model issue: certainly glad the pendulum is swinging toward a more healthy image than the skin and bones model norm. I’m a little sad that they call a size 12 “plus,” with the connotations that anything over a 10 is fat. But as you said, progress is progress.
I just can’t keep my mouth shut. The “plus-size” model is six feet two inches! A size twelve is very proportionally slim on a woman who is 6′ 2″. I will never understand the mentality that thinks anyone over a size 00 is fat. It’s sick.
She is gorgeous and tall. But calling her “plus-size” implies she is not height/weight proportionate in some way, and she really actually is perfectly proportionate. I highly doubt her doctors would say “lose weight”. I bet her BMI is perfectly in the normal range.
I love fashion, really I do, but sometimes it invokes in me an unholy rage.
I have seen these “proportionate” comments on other web sites and frankly they baffle me. Look at her! She has hips and breasts! She is not emaciated. I don’t care if she is plus size or proportionate or whatever, I just want to see more images of women’s clothing being worn by women with womanly bodies.
I wanted to get worked up about calling a gorgeous woman who’s 6’2″ and a size 12 plus size, then I started laughing instead because it’s just so effing ludicrous.
Ralph Lauren has a nasty history of photoshopping their models to freakish proportions. Let’s see how long she lasts on paper before someone at the company decides to make her waist look smaller than her head.
First, I loved this bit: “Because: wow. Money does not care where it goes, people.” Kim, you are funny.
Second, ditto above. I didn’t know she was “plus” ’til I read below. This *is* ridiculous. Further, one of the reasons I don’t buy RL — not that I really could, anyway — is that it took that company sooooo long to use models who were people of color. It seemed to me, back in the day, that this was very noticeable. And I didn’t like it. Which is too bad b/c the clothing *is* colorful. Unusually so.
I don’t know. Maybe I hold grudges too long.
Maybe it’s a big deal for the fashion industry, but she is not a plus size. Most Plus size lines don’t even start until size 14. Lots of Misses sizes go all the way to 18. She is proportioned for her height. Her BMI is probably a healthy one. I like RL because he does make plus size clothes, but that girl can wear his Misses line. I don’t expect designers to use fat girls any more than I expect Gillette to use ugly faces in their ads. You want to show your product in a good light. Still doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to find my size on the rack when I get to the store.
Good point.
I bet that money SOBBED at every decorating expenditure of the Maloof abode — I hesitate to use the word home. Some people have taste and no money, and other people…
I will now use “Maloof” as a verb whenever I encounter mind-bogglingly horrendous decor.
“They Maloof-ed the hell out of the place with that swan-shaped bathtub.”
That’s perfect.
Onde again, thanks for the links to the street Style snaps! Love to see it!
Keep it real Kim and I will keep following. The piece on Robyn was great. Real Housewives?