Liz, beautiful plus size model (yes really) in our last (June) photoshoot
Yesterday my phone rang. It was V, the very talented makeup artist who makes our models look so good in the pictures you see on the Certain Style web site. She wanted to check out the arrangements for our next shoot, on October 17th. First question, obviously, was ‘have you got a model’. Fair question, I wish I had an answer, but V told me she could solve my problem as she waS working with a modelling agency who had two new plus size models. V knows we like to use plus size models for our shoots. I was delighted – believe it or not plus size models are not easy to find – or sample size is usually a 38-40 bust. I reminded her of that – ‘Oh’, she said,’ No I don’t have anyone that large’. Pardon me. Did I not ask for plus size? I had to ask.
‘So in what way are your models plus size?’
It took some time to get an answer to that one, but in the end it turned out that the models in question were ‘curvy’ whatever that means. One a 34 inch bust, one a 36. I was, and am, lost for words. I can see what’s going to happen next. All the magazines will be claiming that they use these so called ‘plus size’ models, but they still won’t be getting anywhere near the dimensions of an average living breathing american woman. So if the sizes don’t suit we just change their definitions? Where have I heard that before? Oh yes, that’s how we got this ‘size 0′ nonsense in the first place.
