Nobody is perfect, but everyone is to blame

The Plus Size Argument has taken a focus this week.

I completely take objection to the term 'Plus Size.' It's hideous. Why not call the super skinny model, minus size if you're going to go down that road?

Size is tricky business it has become quite a taboo subject in the fashion industry. Are we really expected to believe that these droves of models can all credit their tiny waists to good genes?

There is definitely an unhealthy aspect to this but, then again there always has been that side to the industry.

As I've said before the industry itself will have to change it's outlook and what it presents to its audience before the idea as skinny as beautiful will change.

Crystal Renn, is one of the leaders in the quest to change the nurtured and accepted perception of beauty. My issues with Mark Fast have been declared and I believe Crystal succeeds where he fails. She makes clothes look beautiful on a figure which is more average than a beanpole. She is beautiful and an incredible role model to young girls who are growing up in this rigidly image-obsessed world. Initially she tried to conform to the modelling worlds tiny proportions, she drove herself to an unhealthy state before finding the confidence and self assurance to accept her body as it was.

My fondness of her and the brave way in which she tackled this issue makes me want to believe that a overly excited airbrushing tech was the reason for this...

Many fashion bloggers seem to believe that she has succumbed to the unhealthy pressures of the modelling world. I sincerely hope this is not the case.

Either way there is a lot less of Crystals beautiful figure in these photos, be it airbrushing or her own personal lifestyle choice, I definitely prefer her before.

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London Fashion Week 2010

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Mark Fast

I had wanted to choose more images from Mark Fast's collection given his new-found status as a champion of the 'normal' girl which, in fashion, is translated to the 'plus-size' model. However, as much respect as I have for Fast's efforts to change the face of what is fashionably beautiful, I must say that until he transforms, not only the vision of designers globally but also, his own vision, I for one cannot admire the clothes in the same way. I am not in anyway opposed to the use of models larger than a size zero, quite the opposite in fact. I just feel that, for years now designers have created collections with regard to the shape of the models body and allowed their creations to support the skinny trend by attempting to confine their design to what will suit the waif like body of a model. Where Fast is going wrong in his effort is the way he doesn't change his own vision, his own designs; he still designs for a size zero model he just puts the garment on a size 12 model. It's not flattering to his clothes, it doesn't flatter the shape of the model, and other than 'shocking' the fashion world it serves no greater purpose in the quest to change the view of skinny as beauty.

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