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Given all the comments on my Rachel Zoe post, I am curious to know what all of you think about this latest twist in the thin-versus-fat debate. Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier put a large-sized model on his runway as part of his 30th anniversary show in Paris during fashion week. The large model, whose name is Velvet D'Amour, was dressed in a black corset outfit and was part of a show that included the traditional skinny models who were dressed in Gaultier's new workout-inspired line. Like some of the commenters on the Daily Mail article, I'd like to see more of a happy medium between the size 0 and the size 20 on the catwalk. How about a nice size 10?
bonho 10-05-2006 @ 3:17AM
...so where do I put the password this blog server gave me to circumvent the email approval process?!
I would love to see size 10s on the catwalk. Gaultier has always had to go to extremes, though, so this isn't surprising. Viv Westwood did the pregnant model thing and I used to love Sophie Dahl, but then Soph had to lose all that weight and look like everybody else on the catwalk. Sigh.
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Cindy 10-06-2006 @ 8:09PM
I think it is disgusting, and that woman must have no self respect whatsoever. (Likewise for the stick figures posing as human beings who fall off their silly stilt shoes on the runways....)
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jeff byers 10-06-2006 @ 8:11PM
very few women look like a size 0. this showes the world "see i'm big and i'm lovlie and i like my self" & good for them to show young girls that differant is ok from the norm.
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margarett 10-06-2006 @ 8:13PM
Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14, how soon we forget?
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not feelin it 10-06-2006 @ 8:16PM
I think a size 6 is more appropriate - not too thin not too fat. A size 10 - unless youre 6'3 - is not healthy. With the obesity problem already escalating in this country I do not think its any better of an idea to promote being fat than anorexic. I would like to see FIT women on the runway, but please...no "plus size", thats just a sugar-coated way of saying "fat", and fat is not beautiful no matter who you are. Plus, the whole point of a fashion show is to promote a new line and sell clothes, I would not buy anything from a designer with a size 10 on his runway because, being a size 4, I would have no idea how that outfit would look on my bodytype.
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davisdream 10-06-2006 @ 8:18PM
I think it is about time that they put real size women up on the catwalk. Any size woman can be pretty and this will show these teen girls that they do not have to starve to be beautiful! Way to go!!!
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stacy 10-06-2006 @ 8:19PM
I think it is great that a plus size model is in this how. There should be women of ALL sizes in runway shows. America is one of- if not the fattest nation in the world and plus size women would love to wear designer names. If more designers thought about this, and made these clothes... they would have a lot more money and exposure!!
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stacey 10-06-2006 @ 8:19PM
i think that it is great that someone has had the courage to actually put up a plus sized woman ! she has alot of self confidence, more power to her. we need to appreciate all women and their beauty! :)
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Dee 10-06-2006 @ 8:19PM
I think it's great!
On the Marilyn post, if you really looked it up.. Her size was technically a 6 in current sizing. They said the sizing was extremely different from today. I really believed she was a 14, until I did research.
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Niki 10-06-2006 @ 8:20PM
Marilyn Monroe may well have been a size 14, and I don't think anyone would complain about seeing a size 14 model on the stage. This model is not "full figured", she's obese. There's a huge, no pun intended, difference between the two!!
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Dominic 10-06-2006 @ 8:21PM
I don't see the problem this girl is still a human being and deserves respect like anyone else. It doesn't hurt that I like bigger women lol.
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Linda 10-06-2006 @ 8:22PM
I believe if we saw more of these plus size models, perhaps there would be fewer young children trying to starve themselves, or battle weight with drugs or bulemia. During the Rennaissance DaVinci and others painted only larger women. Size 14 is the average size of women in America - let's see more of them. As for Velvet's self-esteem, hers seems to be just fine. Shame on anyone else for thinking she shouldn't be allowed to model or has no esteem - she is just as beautiful as any other model, and she knows it. That is why she is out there showing it!
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Robin 10-06-2006 @ 8:22PM
Wow, I can't believe how ignorant some people can be! How dare you say "fat" people aren't beautiful? who really cares what size a person really wears? And for you to say that a size 10 is unhealthy, really, it just blows my mind. As time goes on, this debate will always linger, but the "winner" will be the people who can be comfortable with themselves as a human being, not as skinny or fat!
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Vallory Lewis 10-06-2006 @ 8:23PM
That woman is not plus size, she is oversized. My daughter is a plus sized model, and in no way does she look like that. The plus size they usually refer to, is the size that most of the average woman, between a 12- 16, thank you.
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Adrienne 10-06-2006 @ 8:24PM
I remember when models were sized 7 and 8 (Yes, that's the Cindy Crawford days), Marilyn Monroe (who was a 14) and Anna Nicole Smith in her beginning days at GUESS! (she was a 16) and all were gorgeous, real. Self-Respecting? Those that need self-respect have it: it's called SELF Respect and this model had it. Jean chose her, she loved walking the Catwalk, she was confident, self assured and wore a corset. Fabulous!! Women - stop hating each other and love yourself for what you are and not what fashion dictates you to be. You're not a hanger for clothes, you're a human being whether you're a sized 00 or size 40. Love YOU...and be healthy loving YOU. Being a size 0 doesn't make you automatically healthy, and being a size 20 doesn't make you automatically non-healthy. Daily Eating right, daily exercise and AGE doesn't make us all a size 0 to 7. But it makes us....healthy.
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Lizzie 10-06-2006 @ 8:24PM
High 5 for putting a real plus sized model on the runway. Its about time we see what is more the norm for todays society. I give her ( the model) a lot of credit for having the hutzpah to get out there and strut her stuff...Wish more would take the initiative and show real plus sized women.....Its terrible to look in a plus size clothing catalogue and see women who are thin...never see anyone over a size16....and yes I know 16 is plus sized..but I am talking PLUS SIZED...and before anyone gets ignorant and makes a comment about me being plus sized....yes I am....I am what I am and thats it....Thanks for your time.....
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s. christian 10-06-2006 @ 8:24PM
Who says that unless you're 6'3" size 10 is not healthy???????
Puuuuuuleeeeeeease!.......get your facts straight! I happen to be 5'7 and wear a size 10 and I am very healthy......and look great to boot!......It's wonderful that you are a size 4, hopefully your body image is in-line with your actual size. The most important thing is to stay healthy....size 10 or size 4. It would be nice to see "realistic" sized women on the runway, women who are confident and have a healthy lifesyle no matter what the "number" on the tag says!
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cw 10-06-2006 @ 8:25PM
A size 10 is unhealthy????????
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kevin 10-06-2006 @ 8:25PM
i totally agree that many of todays models and stars are too thin(some WAY too thin)
but parading a BLOB like that as sexy is totally sickening!
pssssst!.......hey.........people.........WHEN YOU APPROACH 50% BODY FAT............................................?
it actually turns my stomach to see something like that on a beach or dressed in that fashion,sorry but it's the truth!
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Suzy 10-06-2006 @ 8:25PM
If I ever get that fat, I would rather die than be seen in public!! How dare that huge pig wear a garter belt and strut her lard ass down the runway! Ok, I used to be a size 20, three years ago, but I did not wear garter belts in public..Actually, come to think of it, I didn't wear any garter belts at all, because it is NOT becoming on a woman of that size. So, I stopped eating like a pig and got with the program. I lost a ton of weight and got down to a normal size 8 again. I now wear sexy clothes and lingerie from Victoria Secret. My husband says he loved me at size 20 and at size 8, but I know that I turn him on a hell of a lot more now than I did then!! Please, if you are that fat, stay home, put yourself on a diet, lock your fridge and jump on a stairmaster!!
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