Body Beautiful

Did you know that, in the fashion industry, if you are bigger than a US size 6 (so an Aussie size 10) you are considered to be "plus-size"? Even being a US size 6 can see you left out of designer gear. 

Since I blogged about British Vogue's Alexandra Shulman way back in June, the UK has been awash with real-woman hype.

Glamour magazine published this picture of 20-year-old model Lizzie Miller in its September 09 issue and were flooded with encouraging responses from excited readers.

  (Image from The Age)

Since this, Glamour have committed to showing more diversity across their pages. Four plus-size models, and the magazine's editor in chief Cindy Leive spoke to Ellen a few days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2I8dSHURSk

It's not all been roses though. Obviously many fashion alumni don't appreciate their domain being overrun by women who are built bigger than an Olsen. But as the screen grab above from Ellen shows, these models aren't exactly flying the flag for obesity with their Aussie size 12-14 frames. The fashion industry has always supported rail-thin models, and this has provided a great opportunity for the love of fashion and beauty to be shared across all healthy women.

Designer Mark Fast followed suit at London Fashion Week during September by throwing a few size 12-14 girls in his model mix, which certainly ruffled a few feathers. After watching The September Issue though, I'm pretty sure we won't see Anna the Great doing such a ghastly thing in US Vogue. The horror!

It's not about being skinny, it's not about being huge. It's about healthy bodies - not just healthy body image, but healthy, strong, fit bodies. It's about sharing the opportunity to love fashion and clothes and beauty with more than just a tiny tiny percentage of people.

 

Rule #268

Just because you've got a rockin' bod...

...doesn't mean you should wear transparent clothing. I do however dig what's going on above the shoulders: Lily, the electric-blue eyes and the hairdo are smokin'.

And now I think I'm addicted...

Black & Gold by en206 featuring Givenchy jewelry

Mid-June Madness

After two crazy weeks of too much work, too much booze and too much sickness (strangely the last too were found to be unrelated) my time spent whining about the ways of the world has been limited. Thus, here is a round-up of the best of the rest:


Utes vs. Prostitutes - While Australian politicians from both sides of the table have been embrolied in the called "Utegate" affair, Italy's old seedy Silvio has been at it at again. And I totally agree with Leo Shanahan's article Our scandals suck, just ask Silvio Berlusconi. Somehow seedy Silvio's ability to run the country is not questioned, even though his moral standards are decidedly lapse.

Stars and Strife - I don't have a tattoo (I think I'd get bored of it too quickly) but from what the cool kids tell me, they sting a tiny bit too much to ever fall asleep during their application. Was anyone really surprised when she admitted she was lying?



Make and Model - British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman sent a letter to some of the world's biggest fashion designers, blasting their creation of teeny tiny doll clothes that are somehow supposed to be purchased and worn by fully-grown adults. She argues that the women required to model the clothes are now so incredibly skinny, Vogue regularly retouch images to make their models seem less creepy-thin. Good on her I say. There's skinny models and then there's just gross and unwell.

Baby in da House - Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young decided to take her toddler to work for the day. To Parliment House. During a vote, two-year-old Kora had to be removed from the house, obviously distressing both mother and child. Of course it sounds a bit mean by the powers that be to do such a thing but, when you think about it, could you take your kids to work? Check-out chick? No. Lawyer? Probably not. As Tory Maguire wrote, the senator had a multitude of other options available to her, apparently including a child care centre complete with marble sand pit.

"Ugly" thumbs Fox

With more hottest-chick gongs than there are Victorians with swine flu, (ha! sorry, had to get a flu gag in there somewhere!) it turns out Megan Fox isn't quite all that.

Even though she steams up the big screen as the mega-babe in Transformers, according to the UK's Daily Mail, she has ugly thumbs.




































The article reports that it's a genetic "condition" and that "Megan's thumbs almost look more like toes - although they haven't held her back in her career"

What the hell?

Of course it hasn't held back her career! How often will the dudes that watch her movies be looking at her thumbs???

Bloody ridiculous!

N-n-n-natural face, natural face

The make is gone, as is the glittering spandex, and here we can finally see, GaGa au naturale.






































I've wondered this before but now I think we can all see why photos of the dressed-down Ms GaGa are few and far between.

You know how there's some people that look completely different without make-up? That's definitely GaGa's situation...

And alas, even in her down-time, she still doesn't wear pants.

We've had a little work done

And hopefully it's worked out a little more successfully than this...

31 and still growing...

In her early 20s, Hajnal Ban was 154 centimetres tall, the same height as mini-mogul Ashley Olsen.

Now at age 31, the Queensland politician measures in at Scarlett Johansson's height: 162 centimetres.

How?

She went to Russia.

How?

Pay a Siberian surgeon $40,000 to break your leg in four places and then pad the gaps with metal rings.

Why?

"...because there is so much pressure, particularly on young girls, to be a certain way."

Ahhhh. No. Bad answer.

There is no pressure on young girls to have their legs broken by Russians, let alone anyone, whether they purport to be a surgeon or not!

When Hajnal put herself through this, she was the same age as I am now.

And seriously, I have plenty more things I'd prefer to spend $40,000.

Like maybe all these.

And totally pay off my HECS debt.

It's just bloody ridiculous.

Gagalicious?

Although bloggers have been criticising Gaga's boots, I think they're the least of her worries in this shemozzle of an outfit.

Does she just go out for dinner in this stuff? What on earth does she sleep in?

You might hate tall people sitting in front of you at the movies, but imagine if that hat was blocking your view of brawny Hugh's latest effort.

And yes, black lipstick is creeping into winter beauty, but this is giving it a terrible reputation.

Wouldn't it be nice to see her in some kind of normal stuff for a change? Just once?