Response to Candice Huffine and the June Vogue ITALIA Cover

Cynthia Cheng Mintz (delectablychic.com and shorty-stories.com) responds to Candice Huffine's video about her Vogue ITALIA cover, discussing her views on size diversity. A similar, written response to this can be found on delectablychic.com.

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Howto & Style

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• Candice Huffine
• Vogue Italia
• size diversity
• plus sizes
• fashion
• magazines

[fancyface2111]

well im all for conditioning to be honest when it comes to the height part of it-im all for conditioning-its an opinion as much as urs is-except mine isnt trying to start a movement someone did that before i was ever born-

[alumnagirl]

@fancyface2111 There's nothing wrong with a petite movement. It's growing - especially when it comes to the blogging community. Just wished that mainstream media paid more attention.

[fancyface2111]

i feel like this is becoming a chat between us-nway designers that do make clothes for women that dont fit the genera mould of 5 foot 11 are talented as much as those that use models that are 5 foot 11 and skinny-i don't think ur right in questioning the talent of designers of this decade-i think that right there is an insult to people like lanvin,alexander mcqueen,paul smith,marc jacobs,valentiono-i mean some of these peope have being doing this before you were born-

[alumnagirl]

@fancyface2111 Did you read my post? I said that those who ARE talented are pretty much pressured to use taller women. If Marc Jacobs chose to use only average-heighted (yet thin - think 5'5" and size 2 or a good portion of Hollywood) girls, he could. He doesn't because the fashion industry says he's not supposed to. Thinking that tall=looks better is totally conditioning. Also, there's more to modelling than runway/editorial. I don't like it when 5'11", size 0-ers are used for beauty either.

[alumnagirl]

@fancyface2111 Oh, and if anyone else wants to respond, feel free...

[fancyface2111]

i wouldn't go to the show because the demographic targeted are short girls-the clothes are for short girls-so how they make their clothes work isn't how i would wear it-i am not short and so why should i sit thru a runway that has short girls.good on the designers targeting short people -I'm not saying don't do your thing but don't expect that the whole fashion worls should use short models simply because you think short models should be up there as well.

[alumnagirl]

@fancyface2111 Hmmmm, I have to sit through show after show filled with models who are some 9 inches taller than me and proportionately thinner than me (despite wearing the same dress size). Honestly, I think designers who don't know how to make people like me (or 5'7", size 12 women or 6'2" size 18 women - basically anyone who can't make people other than 5'11", size 0 women) aren't that talented. Those who DO, but only use such models are only doing so because of pressure.

[alumnagirl]

@fancyface2111 So say someone has a line of clothing designed specifically for women 5'4" and below (I have a few pieces from petite-focused designers in my closet (i.e. not petite sizes of mainstream brands (which i have too)). Are you saying that you wouldn't go to her show? I'm not talking about someone as short as say, Snooki (4'9"). I'm talking 5'3" or 5'4". Your comments are doing NOTHING to help such designers, who really need some press.

[fancyface2111]

i think it will take a long time to have people think the way you do-i mean even though we have plus size modeling-fashion world still epitomizes the tall thin girl who in general tends to be causasian -no one said that fashion worls is perfect-it is clearly far from it-but i dont want to see a size 22 on the runwayt and i dont want to see a short girl either on it-call me harsh-both are extremes and take away from the clothes and more to the person

[alumnagirl]

@fancyface2111 Yeah, but you aren't going to use a 5'11" model for a line targeted specifically for the 5'4" and below woman. You might use someone on the taller side (i.e. average height of 5'4"-5'6", but NOT 5'11"). It's like why they use size 14-16 models for plus sizes rather than someone who is say, 22. Also, I think the tall=hang better is all conditioning since we see short and average heighted celebs all the time.