The stick-skinny, celery-and-cigarettes crowd of female models will likely never go out of fashion — but now their more substantial sisterhood is giving them a run for their money.
Glamour magazine fired the first shot last year when it featured a photo of plus-size model Lizzie Miller flashing a broad smile while letting her belly show. Now V magazine has upped the ante with the release of its "Size" issue this week — featuring models whose dress sizes hit double digits sporting skimpy bathing suits, hip-hugging jeans and, in some cases, nothing at all.
"I loved the opportunity to show that you can be beautiful and sexy outside the narrow interpretations that normally define us," said photographer Solve Sundsbo, who snapped the models for V.
Big and small
V magazine is known for pushing the envelope on fashion journalism; it famously pictured pop star Lady Gaga topless in a photo spread last year. And now it has moved the debate of size-equals-beauty even more to the forefront with two competing covers of its new issue. One cover features 250-pound "Precious" film star Gabourey Sidibe, while the other cover features 100-pound, size-0 actress Dakota Fanning.
In addition, the current issue features a pictorial of traditionally svelte model Jacquelyn Jablonski posing in exactly the same fashions as plus-size model Crystal Renn.
Renn, of course, has become an icon to bigger women everywhere. The curvy size-12 model recounted her tale of trying to fit in with the size-0 modeling crowd in her memoir "Hungry," released last year.
And while V seemingly sets up big-versus-small as some kind of competition, Renn has said she's not out to topple the thin models from their traditional throne of dominance in the fashion industry.
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