Maria Michaela wrote:
Robyn Lawley for Australian Cosmopolitan, shot by Steven Chee

I LOVE these!!!

Maria Michaela wrote:
not a test or spread, but of a high enough level to share

some of the pictures of the Elena Miro runway show (italian fashion week, plus size label)

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Maria Michaela wrote:

I love shots like this, even as a thinner girl, because my tummy looks like that sometimes too.

Maria Michaela wrote:
Robyn Lawley for Australian Cosmopolitan, shot by Steven Chee

OP:  thanks for posting these.

I love all these images.  But there is something wrong with this image.  The girl is "too tall" compared to the countertop.  Unless this girl has 46" legs, she is standing on a box.

Digitoxin wrote:

OP:  thanks for posting these.

I love all these images.  But there is something wrong with this image.  The girl is "too tall" compared to the countertop.  Unless this girl has 46" legs, she is standing on a box.

not sure what you mean... When I stand straight, the countertop goes up to the same place as well (the model is robyn lawley, she's approximately the same height as me), and she could be standing on her toes a little. I don't think she needs to be a giant for the proportions to work in this picture, but maybe I'm missing something

Emma - O wrote:
I think you should start a tumblr posting these images, all I ever see on there is pictures of slim girls, which is fine because they too are pretty, but then so many people reblog 'wish I was this thin' - it would be awesome to see a blog celebrating beautiful plus girls without being against any other sizes. Tumblr really seems to lack bigger beautiful girls! :[

there are tons of tumblrs and blogs with pictures like this, I get the pictures for these threads of some of them, and others from agency boards. But most people don't know they're out there!

the thing with plus size (both the community as the industry) is that it has been growing consistently, but it pretty much lives seperately from the rest of fashion. But I see no reason why we can't mix things up a bit. Inspiration has no size

Krista W wrote:
WOW. Beautiful pictures. Gotta be honest though, most of these "plus size" models I would still consider a thin woman out in the real world so it's kind of shocking for me to see them considered plus size. Especially Myla and Stephanie. I'm kind of at an in-between size right now and I'm not sure if I want to lose a few lbs to be straight size or gain some to be plus size. I've checked with my doctor and I'd be good either way as long I keep healthy and within my BMI range.

at a size 12, I woldn't consider them skinny women in real life, but it's definitely true that for a lot of plus size models, being a plus size model does not mean they're a plus size woman .

Maria Michaela wrote:

at a size 12, I woldn't consider them skinny women in real life, but it's definitely true that for a lot of plus size models, being a plus size model does not mean they're a plus size woman .

They're really size 12? I read somewhere Robyn was a size 10 and Myla and Stephanie both look tinier than her too. Huh, crazy how distorted my views on body and sizes are then.

Krista W wrote:

They're really size 12? I read somewhere Robyn was a size 10 and Myla and Stephanie both look tinier than her too. Huh, crazy how distorted my views on body and sizes are then.

for information that is most likely correct (not always, but has  greater chance), always best to check their agency
Robyn's are: 36D(I don't understand why agencies do that, this is not the actual measurement of her bust, but her cupsize)-32-42
With 42 hips, she's a 12. But she's really tall of course, so it "looks" smaller.
not to mention that they're models like the rest, so the right pose, light and styling can really shape a body. And a little bit of photoshop here and there does the rest

Stephanie Shui has 41 on her hips, she's a 10-12. Myla is indeed a 10, and probably one on the small side of 10 if it weren't for her boobs...
But you know, that's definitely agreat thing about the plus size industry: size diversity

Maria Michaela wrote:

for information that is most likely correct (not always, but has  greater chance), always best to check their agency
Robyn's are: 36D(I don't understand why agencies do that, this is not the actual measurement of her bust, but her cupsize)-32-42
With 42 hips, she's a 12. But she's really tall of course, so it "looks" smaller.
not to mention that they're models like the rest, so the right pose, light and styling can really shape a body. And a little bit of photoshop here and there does the rest

Stephanie Shui has 41 on her hips, she's a 10-12. Myla is indeed a 10, and probably one on the small side of 10 if it weren't for her boobs...
But you know, that's definitely agreat thing about the plus size industry: size diversity

Definitely...now if only we could find more of that in the straight size industry. I'd love to see some size 4's and 6's. Lara Stone is the only size 4 I know of in the straight size industry.

And just wow...these girls are crazy gorgeous. I seriously feel like my eyes have opened up, the only plus size models I knew were Crystal Renn and Kate Dillon.

Krista W wrote:

Definitely...now if only we could find more of that in the straight size industry. I'd love to see some size 4's and 6's. Lara Stone is the only size 4 I know of in the straight size industry.

And just wow...these girls are crazy gorgeous. I seriously feel like my eyes have opened up, the only plus size models I knew were Crystal Renn and Kate Dillon.

oh, definitely check out the other thread then as well, got tons of models in there!

Abi Hill wrote:
Laura Catterall is on the front cover of French Cosmopolitan - don't have a picture of it to upload but sure someone will.

thanks for the heads up!



and more inside:

Maria Michaela wrote:
Model Candice Huffine in “The Girly Show” for W Magazine, March 2012. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by Edward Enninful. The cool thing about this (for me) is that it's a spread using a plus size model and straightsize models. diversity

OBSESSED

Maria Michaela wrote:

at a size 12, I woldn't consider them skinny women in real life, but it's definitely true that for a lot of plus size models, being a plus size model does not mean they're a plus size woman .

I also think it's worth noting that plus size models are also generally 5'9"+ and as such are distributed really well. There's a huge difference in body types for a plus sized 5'10" model and a plus sized 5'2" model.

T A Y L O R  wrote:

I also think it's worth noting that plus size models are also generally 5'9"+ and as such are distributed really well. There's a huge difference in body types for a plus sized 5'10" model and a plus sized 5'2" model.

yes, definitely. It irks me when people say "plus size models represent the average woman". they don't. They may be closer to the average size then straightsize women, but there's nothing average about them. Unless average women are 5'10 and model-gorgeous, they're not average .

Average women don't look like this