Designer Rosemary Masic says plus size models are a health threat

Rosemary Masic is an Australian designer who runs the fashion label Nevenka. Read More  Read More →

Casual Male to launch Destination XL super store

With the global recession retailers are really suffering with many closing stores and making cut backs of one kind or another. Plus size fashion retailer Casual Male XL has been no different as  sales dropped by 11% during the 2009 financial year. However, with a well managed inventory and controlled profit and loss, their sales rose towards the last quarter. Read More  Read More →

New Plus Size Boutique: FashionToFigure.com

FashionToFigure.com is an online boutique “bringing fashion to the figure”. Read More  Read More →

ELLE Spécial Rondes, the French ELLE goes Plus Size

This week French Elle has been celebrating curvier plus size women. On the front cover of this ELLE Spécial Rondes issue is plus size model Tara Lynn. Tara Lyn is a plus size model who is no stranger to glossy magazines as she has appeared in many famous spreads such as V magazine. Read More  Read More →

Size 16 Chloe Marshall competes in Miss England Final

WOW, things really have changed! A plus size girl made history a couple of years ago when this teenager was crowned Miss Surrey and competed for Miss England in the final at size 16. Read More  Read More →

Interview with Chichi from My Lovely Big Feet + Miss and Mrs Tall Clothes

Very seldom can we find fashion blogs that cater to either tall women or to women with big feet. Well, our interviewee Chichi has precisely created 2 blogs catering to fashion conscious women: My Lovely Big Feet, as wells as Miss and Mrs Tall Clothes. Here, she tells us about her what makes her tick when it comes to outsize fashion and shoes. Read More  Read More →

Daily Venus Diva, a plus size e-magazine

Daily Venus Diva (site: dailyvenusdiva.com) is a great plus size e-magazine that contains all you need for you quick plus size fix. Read More  Read More →

Full Figured Fashion Week 2010

Gwendolyn DeVoe, a former plus-size model, is also the creator of a well established plus size special events Management Company and organizer of Full Figured Fashion Week in America which is now in its second year.   De Voe has been involved in plus size fashion since she was at college where she began free lance modeling and then began to plan and organize plus size events. Read More  Read More →

Study says Plus-Size Models depress women’s self-esteem

At the School of Business at Arizona State University, associate professor Naomi Mandel believes that consumers exposed to plus-size models will actually lower their self-esteem, rather than improve it. Read More  Read More →

Plus Size Model: Kate Dillon

Beginning a successful career as a slender fashion model at the age of 16, Kate Dillon was widely hailed as “the next Cindy Crawford.” Read More  Read More →

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