Curvy Chicks

After reading about the move towards curvy models (love how they avoid usage of the word fat) at Italian runway shows I wondered, is being shapely ok now? And what is shapely?

Sure there is still a healthy dose of the anorexic in modeling, but it looks like the real woman is back. No more eating salads fresh from the earth with a dab of salt water that chefs call dressing. No more avoiding that sinful cheesecake, from Magnolia’s or Junior’s (if you’re not from Brooklyn, you won’t understand -though I am starting to think Junior’s is a bit overrated-).

Armani and Prada proudly let the curvy models walk down the runways for these fashion shows. But are these ladies really curvy? There’s a real difference between the women I see in the Dove ads and the so-called “curvy models” walking the runway.

My gripe is, for a long time women were held to impossible standards of beauty (I learned this on my first photo shoot) and we go through it day in and day out. Now that the move is towards more shapely models, I am little disturbed by what the industry is calling curvy. What happens when a girl sees these models who are referred to as shapely and they themselves are bigger than the “new and improved” curvy models?

These are not the Dove models walking down the runway in Milan. These chicks still look rail thin.

You be the judge.

3 Comments to Curvy Chicks

Lauren
October 5, 2005

I think for them “curvy” means rail thin with big boobs.

shoelover
October 5, 2005

Typical Runway model = size 0-2 - built like a 12 year old boy
Curvy runway model = size 4 - built like a 15 to 16 year old girl - all boobs, no hips…….yet!

Shoelover

solie
October 20, 2005

Actually, normal models aren’t 0-2. I think there more 2-6. Maybe?
I agree with Lauren, all the curves are implants.

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