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Alternative fashion week celebrates larger lady size
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February 18, 2013, Monday
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IT'S a skinny girl's world, particularly in fashion where the thin, androgynous look always wins out. But last weekend, an alternative to London Fashion Week celebrated the larger lady and all her curves.
"Thank you all for being who you are," declared one of the organizers at the first Official British Plus-Size Fashion Weekend in Shoreditch, a district in the east of the capital.
Here, elegantly-dressed women browse racks of clothes designed for European size 40 (UK size 12, US size 8 or 10) and upwards, snacking intermittently from plates of crisps and cupcakes spread around the venue - food here is not taboo.
The two-day event featured discussions, tutorials by bloggers and a final catwalk show featuring established and first-time models.
Wearing skirts, shorts or bikinis, the women were greeted with enthusiastic applause as they walked out on the runway, with the audience encouraging every display of confidence.
While many of the models could only be described as voluptuous, some of the clothes on offer were not what many people think of as plus-sized.
Hayley, a 24-year-old model who wears European size 42, berated the industry for the way it categorized women. "I think even some agencies these days call girls that are UK size 10 plus size. That's just crazy.
"I think that plus size is the wrong word. I think a curvy model would be a better word to describe me and plus size is not necessarily the nicest expression."
"Thank you all for being who you are," declared one of the organizers at the first Official British Plus-Size Fashion Weekend in Shoreditch, a district in the east of the capital.
Here, elegantly-dressed women browse racks of clothes designed for European size 40 (UK size 12, US size 8 or 10) and upwards, snacking intermittently from plates of crisps and cupcakes spread around the venue - food here is not taboo.
The two-day event featured discussions, tutorials by bloggers and a final catwalk show featuring established and first-time models.
Wearing skirts, shorts or bikinis, the women were greeted with enthusiastic applause as they walked out on the runway, with the audience encouraging every display of confidence.
While many of the models could only be described as voluptuous, some of the clothes on offer were not what many people think of as plus-sized.
Hayley, a 24-year-old model who wears European size 42, berated the industry for the way it categorized women. "I think even some agencies these days call girls that are UK size 10 plus size. That's just crazy.
"I think that plus size is the wrong word. I think a curvy model would be a better word to describe me and plus size is not necessarily the nicest expression."
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