It’s an old-fashioned attitude, wanting to be really thin,” she says. “I think women today want to look healthy, and curvy … the curvier you are, the better my VB Body dresses look.”Curves are chic!
Fantastic news, obviously. But … are they really? I fluctuate between sizes 10 and 14, meaning, like most British women, I fall into the “mid size” range which covers bodies from size 10 to 16 (bigger than a 6-8 “straight” sample size, and smaller than plus-size, which is 18 and over).
Having written about fashion for the past decade and sat front row at Fashion Week in Paris, Milan, New York and London, I have never felt that my body was chic, or fashionable, or even likely to look good in 90 per cent of the clothes that I write about.I have been apologetic when my bottom hasn’t fit into the six inches of allotted front row bench space at Fashion Week, and mortified when a sample that I’ve been sent to wear for a shoot didn’t fit me.
Even on the high street, where trends have been accessibly watered down – ostensibly to suit the everywoman’s wardrobe – they aren’t made to fit the everywoman’s body.
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