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It’s all about change in the fashion world right now—designers are livestreaming their runway shows (or trying anyway), shoppers can snap up fall Chloe bags on their iPhones, and magazines like Glamour and Marie Claire are making an effort to include plus-size women in their formerly stick-thin pages. But not everyone is down with the plan, and design legends Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin seem to be the most conscientious objectors, today anyway.
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When asked what he thought about German magazine Brigitte‘s decision to ban thin models from its pages, Old Looselips Lagerfeld quipped, “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying thin models are ugly.” He deems the whole practice “absurd.”
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Dangerously thin models have
been a controversial topic in the past, but at a recent London
fashion show, it was a trio of plus-sized models who caused a
commotion. The Daily Mail reports that when Canadian
designer Mark Fast announced to his staff that three women who wore
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Hold onto your adorable round seats because MTV's reality show factory is about to leave you either delighted or appalled. You know how there's a token plus-sized model (or, ahem, plus-sized in model-speak, but pretty standard for a girl on the street) on every other season of ANTM who... Read More »
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When this week's episode of America's Next Top Model opened with a Whitney confessional, I actually moaned out loud. Esteban, who was fleeing the room in a Pavlovian response to the question "You Wanna Be On Top?" replied, "Oh come on, now, just because she's the... Read More »
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On last night's America's Next Top Model, the pre-models learned how to be fake without being too fake during interviews and parties. Whitney was chastised for being too Pageant Queen, while Lauren was spared the Aufing yet again for the mystifying reason that Paulina and Nigel just... Read More »
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