A cleavage controversy embroils two major TV networks. The battle is over a banned commercial featuring a model for plus-size clothier Lane Bryant. But with more sexual sizzle on TV than ever before, is this a case of prejudice against plus-sizes, or something else?

A group of proud, full-figured women looked at the new ad campaign for the women’s clothing company and told CBS 2 that whoever nixed it was a “boob.”

“I’m fired up about it because I’m not a small Victoria’s Secret woman. I am fired up about this,” said shopper Marie Thomas.

“It is disgraceful,” said shopper Diane Porcaro. “Just because they’re full-figured women doesn’t mean they can’t dress the way they’d like to dress and have it shown.”

Lane Bryant claimed at least two networks – Fox and ABC – decided the ad is too sexy for TV because it shows too much cleavage.

In the ad, a scantily-clad woman is wearing Lane Bryant lingerie and the narrator is heard saying, “Mom always said beauty is skin deep, a smile is the best makeup, and it’s what underneath that counts. Somehow, I don’t think this is what mom had in mind.”

Shopper Andra Prince said she feels betrayed.

“It is a complete double standard. If it’s OK for the skinny woman, it should be OK for the full-figured woman. We have just as much right as anyone else,” she said.

Lane Bryant customer Colleen Bjornsson wondered what kind of message this sends.

“If you can have a Victoria’s Secret model, what’s wrong with the full-figured woman? Most of America is full-figured, aren’t they?” she asked.

Peggy Howell is an advocated for full-figured people, and spokesperson for the National Association for Advancement of Fat Acceptance.

“There are plenty of models that walk down the catwalk in nothing, but bras and tiny little panties. What is the difference?” she asks.

And many shoppers who spoke to CBS 2 agreed, complaining they are subjected to Victoria’s Secret ads and thin models all over the airwaves, calling this dispute blatant discrimination.

“I do feel good about myself, especially having my son just a few months ago,” said Lane Bryant shopper Lynne Waldman. “But I do think it’s silly they are catering more to the skinny women, there are more heavy women in the world.”

ABC declined to comment, but Fox agreed to air the ad during “American Idol” after re-editing.

One of the world’s most influential female style bloggers has criticised the casting of curvy models in runway shows.

Garance Dore, whose blog Une Fille Comme Moi (A Girl Like Me) attracts 50,000 hits a day, says the use of curvaceous models in recent international fashion shows, such as those by Prada and Louis Vuitton, seems gimmicky.

“I think it’s too much and almost naive of the fashion industry, because it would be nice in a few years that the idea of different body shapes is normal, but right now it’s not quite there yet,” the 35-year-old French illustrator turned photographer and blogger told AAP in an interview from Paris.

“It should not be such a big deal to show women with different bodies, but sometimes it’s treated like a bit of joke, or for shock, like the plus-size models on the runway in the UK fashion week.”

Dore, who is due in Australia next week for an exhibition of her illustrated work, also says she’s not convinced the sudden starring role of plus-size models in glossy magazines is projecting a healthy body image.

The April issue of French Elle features plus-size model Tara Lynn on the cover and includes a twenty-page editorial featuring Lynn in luxury labels.

This follows on from V magazine’s Size issue, published in January, that also starred Lynn alongside plus-size supermodel Crystal Renn.

“It’s not such a good thing to show plus-size because it’s not really physically healthy and not always flattering to fashion,” Dore says.

Dore will be in Sydney for the April 28 launch of her art-meets-fashion exhibition at Westfield Bondi Junction.

Westfield commissioned Dore to create seven illustrations inspired by the winter 2010 collections of Australian designers Zimmerman, Gorman, Thurley, Bettina Liano, Arthur Galan, Leona Edmiston and Country Road.

For at least one of the Australian designers represented in the exhibition curves, however, reign.

Veteran fashion designer Leona Edmiston has built her successful business around dresses cut for a feminine shape.

Speaking to AAP at the launch of her Spring/Summer 2010/11 collection, Edmiston welcomed the return of the curvier silhouette.

“I think naturally a lot of us are curvy, and so why fight it?” Edmiston said.

“We have to embrace it and celebrate it, and curves are beautiful and we can look so beautiful emphasising them, so there’s no reason to hide them.”

Dore’s comments could ignite a catfight as models prepare to take to the catwalk in Sydney next month for Australian Fashion Week.

But with the event’s schedule heavily weighted towards young designers’ shows over veterans like Edmiston, one leading casting agent said there had been no requests for fuller-figured models.

“There has been no demand for that type of girl here in Australia,” the source told AAP.

“The models being cast are still young and lean.”

There are certain inalienable rights when it comes to “working out”.  If you’ve actually decided to become a person who moves – and moves regularly – I believe you’re entitled to look good in your workout clothes.  I believe you’re also entitled to NOT have to advertise every bit of padding you have.  And oh, you’re also entitled to feel good while you’re working out, which means wearing clothes that fit.

Yep, that’s right. Once you’ve made the tiniest step to the gym, or the lakefront path, I think you should be rewarded with clothes that FIT.  That make the ladies look cute and the men look HO-T-T hot.

Yes, there’s the small complication that you’re working out for several reasons, one of which may be because you aren’t feeling so H-O-T-T hot. But set that aside from a minute.  Think of yourself in the gym, lying on the bench, waiting to do a press.  Do you want to be worrying about whether the guy across the way is getting an unintended look at a zone you’d rather keep to yourself?  I think  not.

Plus, I don’t know about you, but I live in deathly fear that some day, NBC5 is going to air footage of me, running down the lakefront path with one of those “OBESITY IS KILLING AMERICA” voiceovers, and I just need to make sure I’m NOT in anything clingy and tight when that happens.

So, if you happen to share my opinion on this crucial public interest matter, a few tips for buying your new workout clothes. Trust me, you’ll thank me later.

1. Own your current size. It’s okay, and if you buy clothes that fit you now, you’ll feel better in them. This can be hard to do sometimes, but if you can, I’d encourage you to buy for your current size.  I know, I know, Sportmart only carries ONE size XL in each batch of Nike (I know, because I’ve asked); and you don’t want to wear that tee shirt you have from 1992.  But here are your options: Walk around the gym, or the path, feeling self-conscious, tugging at your shirt every time it feels tight, or wondering if that slight roll (or rollishness-rolly thingie) around your waist is showing – OR – walk around confidently, with a mini-swagger, knowing that there’s muscle in them there limbs, and that you’re excavating through the extra padding to find them.  I’d opt for swagger, but that’s just me.  And I don’t swagger well when I’m constantly pulling at my clothes.

2. Get what you can afford, and get enough to NOT need to do laundry every time you work out. When I first started running, I had one pair of compression tights (men’s, ick), which I wore under one of two pairs of mesh basketball-ish shorts, and I had two “running shirts”.  That was enough – with two pairs of shorts, and two shirts, I could alternate during the week and do laundry once a week – and still run 5 days.  I tend to be an overpurchaser, but I’d say that buying just a couple of extra shirts (or stealing them from your husband or whatever) make it far more likely you won’t have an excuse come Thursday for why you can’t work out.

3. Don’t be afraid to order online. There are great, great places online now for womens’ and men’s running and workout clothing in bigger sizes.  Mile Marker Sports carries a full line of Sporthill, which includes women’s plus sizes and Men’s XL. Moving Comfort for Women carries a large line of plus-size tech clothes for women; and New Balance has a great selection for both (use the Apparel Search function, where you can search by SIZE!). Most stores offer coupons or reduced shipping costs, and the return policies are liberal.  Don’t be afraid to try something out online.  Or….

4. Take advantage of the local resources. Chicagoans are luckier than most if you’re carrying some extra pounds -there are several local stores that actually stock good, flattering, technical apparel in our size!   Fleet Feet Sports is probably the best for women – they stock both Nike and Moving Comfort for Women’s running and walking apparel in Plus Sizes or XXLs, and they really do look out for styles that are flattering and cute.  They also occasionally stock items from Sugoi and other vendors.  Check out the North Ave. location at Piper’s Alley for the best selection.  Also, New Balance Chicago at Fullerton and Clark stocks some items in an XXL for women and men (you can call ahead to see if they have a particular item in stock).  And don’t forget REI in Lincoln Park (only stocking Men’s XXL in the store, no plus-size women’s apparel there) or Dick’s Sporting Goods in the suburbs for some select apparel.

So that’s it from here – with just one parting word.  The workout isn’t about the clothes – it’s about feeling good while you’re doing it, enough so that you come back.  So give yourself a little credit, and dress for the workout as if you deserve to look your best – because you do.

From Plus Athlete.

Los Altos, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2010 — LaGrandeDame.com (www.LaGrandeDame.com), top purveyor of designer plus sized clothing, announces new arrivals from hot designer brands Anna Scholz, De Sentino, Not Your Daughter’s Jeans and more. La Grande Dame also has a sweepstakes underway allowing all new newsletter subscribers the chance to win a $500 shopping spree.

La Grande Dame is offering a $500 shopping spree to a lucky newsletter subscriber. To qualify, simply sign up at http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/28586

“This spring is such an exciting time in Fashion!” exclaimed Catherine Wood Hill, co-founder and CEO of La Grande Dame. “After several seasons of recession we are finally seeing bright colors and fun prints that make women feel beautiful and sexy.”

About Anna Scholz

Born in Germany, Anna Scholz moved to London in 1990 to pursue her design dreams. After the launch of her annascholz label in 1996, Anna gradually built up a solid fan base of celebrities and exclusive shops. She has evolved from showing clients her collections in her living room to being celebrated around the world for fabulous “curvaceous couture” in sizes 12-28.

Anna Scholz creates expertly cut and embellished garments in luxurious and tactile fabrics. She develops and uses striking prints and bold colors to create sophisticated, beautiful collections. It is paradise for any woman who expects luxury and originality from their wardrobe.

About De Sentino

Dominique De Sentino established her Toronto based fashion house and manufacturing facility in 1988. Her personal passion for painting and sculpting along with her innate love for the exotic are the prime ingredients visible in her designs and creates this unique De Sentino vision.

De Sentino has an exclusive line of plus sized items that exemplify great cut, stunning craftsmanship and on trend styling. La Grande Dame is proud to be one of the exclusive marketers of De Sentino’s unique and beautiful line.

About Not Your Daughter’s Jeans

Not Your Daughter’s Jeans (NYDJ) uses special Lift Tuck technology to make you look a full size smaller in jeans. They create the jeans you have always wished for!

About La Grande Dame’s Sweepstakes

La Grande Dame is offering a $500 shopping spree to a lucky newsletter subscriber. To qualify, simply sign up for the La Grande Dame newsletter before April 29, 2010. To register, go to http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/28586 and enter your name and email address. Winners will be notified the week of May 3, 2010.

“La Grande Dame is so excited to introduce beautiful new spring/summer styles and excellent customer service to more customers with this sweepstakes! Our newsletter provides a no risk way for more plus sized women to be introduced to fun, designer clothing, created just for their unique bodies.” said Michelle Wood, co-founder and CCO of La Grande Dame.

About La Grande Dame

Located in beautiful Los Altos, CA, La Grande Dame (www.lagrandedame.com) is an online retail company specializing in high-end fashion for plus sized women. With a passion for fashion and desire to make women feel beautiful, La Grande Dame has spent the last decade scouring stores across the country and even abroad, searching for stunning clothing and accessories to offer their clientele.

La Grande Dame is dedicated to promoting sustainable business practices, giving back to their community and educating their customers on the importance of doing what they can to help keep the planet healthy and are proud to partner with Renewable Choice Energy to provide customers the option to “RoundUp” their purchases to offset the carbon emitted in the shipping process. For more information please go to http://www.lagrandedame.com/la-grande-dame-gives-back.html.

For more information about La Grande Dame’s sweepstakes or to speak with the founders of La Grande Dame, Catherine Wood Hill and Michelle Wood please email Catherine(at)lagrandedame(dot)com or call 866-972-3263.

Building on a combination of celebrity buzz and media glitz, shapewear is seeing a renaissance after four decades of flat sales.

Annual retail sales of shapewear — undergarments that control and smooth figure problems — grew 10.6 percent to $848.3 million from March 2009 to February 2010, and unit sales increased 3.8 percent during that period, according to The NPD Group research consultancy. A leading area of growth was plus sizes of XL to XXXL or larger, with sales gains of 14.8 percent last year.

The reinvention of the category began on the red carpet when celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Oprah Winfrey and Queen Latifah started talking about wearing Spanx shapers — manufactured with advanced fabric technology — under their evening gowns. It picked up steam last year when Lady Gaga, who often wears underpinnings as apparel, along with Rihanna and Beyoncé helped ignite demand when they were seen in provocative corsetry and other lingerie looks at the Grammys and the American Music Awards, as well as in magazines.

The trend also has been propelled by shapewear and corsetry featured in popular TV shows like AMC’s “Mad Men,” HBO’s “Diary of a Call Girl” and “The Tudors,” and ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.”

Shapewear started declining when the miniskirt became popular in 1965, and the introduction of seamless pantyhose made obsolete the need for multiple layers of intimate apparel such as control briefs with garters. Women are now building shapewear wardrobes of basic and specialty pieces like control camis, waist cinchers and all-in-one body shapers, much in the same manner as they’ve made bras, tank tops and undies wardrobe staples.

Key brands include Spanx, Jockey, Wacoal, Olga, Flexees, Rago, Va Bien, QT, Body Wrap, Sassybax, Annette, Leonisa, Sculptz, Slimpressions, Go Slim by Cynthia Rowley and ShaToBu, a brand that claims to tone muscles as it supports problem areas such as the thighs and tummy.

The profile of vintage girdles and the tiny waists they create should ramp up in 2011. For example, retro girdles will be a costuming focus of the HBO miniseries ‘Mildred Pierce,” starring Kate Winslet and based on the 1945 movie for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar, said Ann Roth, who is designing the costumes.

Roth, herself an Academy Award winner for “The English Patient” in 1996, said, “I have every single woman in a girdle, a straight-across girdle. I always do that so they sit properly.”

Robert Thompson, professor of television and pop culture at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said, “Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Beyoncé are huge in this [lingerie-shapewear] equation.”

“There has to be something of a fashion authority, something that shows people looking good in what they’re wearing, whether it’s prime time TV, a fashion show in Paris or an ad in Vogue,” Thompson said. “If it goes to the extreme item such as Lady Gaga or Rihanna wearing foundations, you will see a huge interest all of a sudden in something like a corset. That’s when it gets to be a smoking gun.…As brilliant as ‘Mad Men’ is about Americans in the early Sixties — the show makes old Fifties girdles look so fabulous under clothing — it’s more brilliant as an ad for undergarments.”

Guido Campello, vice president of marketing and innovation for Cosabella, an Italian-made intimates brand sold worldwide, said the company began receiving a stream of e-mails from retailers requesting shapewear immediately after the Grammys and the American Music Awards.

“We didn’t expect we had a market for shapewear, especially in Italy,” he said. “But it’s because of the entertainment artists, such as Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and even Eva Longoria in ‘Desperate Housewives,’ which has taken over ‘Sex and the City’ worldwide.”

“Italians love to wear everything American, and after the Grammys and AMA aired, we received tons of e-mails from retailers,” Campello recalled. “A lot of e-mails said, ‘I remember you do shapewear. I would like to see it after seeing all of those [lingerie-shapewear] looks at the Grammys and the AMA.”

Cosabella, which holds the lingerie license for “Sex and the City,” introduced a line of Smooth by Cosabella shapers in spring 2009.

Maureen Stabnau, senior vice president of merchandising at barenecessities.com, an e-commerce site specializing in intimates, said shapewear is becoming an everyday item because of the celebrity factor.

“We started seeing this happening about two years ago with red carpet-ready celebrities saying, ‘I’ve got my Spanx on.’ It also became a secret weapon for celebrity stylists, and shapewear came out of the closet,” she said. “Our shapewear business is doing very well, and our plus-size shapewear business is ahead by 25 to 30 percent over the past year. It’s not necessarily about being smaller; it’s about making you look smooth.”

At Wacoal America, shapewear sales are running 40 percent higher than last year, said Bob Vitale, executive vice president of marketing and sales.

“We are having a lot of requests from department stores and smaller specialty stores for shapewear that goes up to XXL. The category in larger sizes has really gained momentum because shapewear has become such a hot button,” he said, adding shapewear “is our biggest area of growth for the next three years in our plans.”

Innovation and technology have also affected the resurgence. Heat-sealed applications and laser-cut treatments as well as lightweight microfiber blends with Lycra spandex, Modal, Meryl and organic blends such as bamboo with cotton have modernized the shapewear business.

“Lycra spandex, microfibers, and antibacterial and moisture-repellent applications have been very important,” said Juan Duque, president of the North American division of Leonisa, which is based in Colombia. ‘We have seen 50 percent growth over the past year in the U.S. market, and we believe the potential for shapewear is still not tapped.”

In junior high, she was known as Overweight Kate. Today, Kate Dillon is known as one of the most influential women in high-fashion modeling.

Currently represented by New York City’s Wilhelmina Models, Dillon was the first plus-size model to appear in Vogue, was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in 2001, and has been photographed by industry icons Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton.

But there is more to Dillon than just a pretty face. The 5-foot-11 36-year-old also holds a master’s degree in public administration in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School and has been involved in numerous philanthropic projects.

Discovered by a photographer while hanging out at Del Mar’s Pannikin, Dillon is on a mission to redefine beauty, proving to the world that true beauty really does come from the inside.

What was it like growing up in North County?

My family moved from Washington, D.C., to San Diego when I was 10. My father worked for Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in La Jolla and my mother was a kindergarten teacher at La Jolla Country Day, which I attended from eighth to 12th grade. We lived first in Carlsbad, then we moved to Carmel Del Mar. I loved going to the beach at sunset and seeing the dolphins swimming by, hiking at Torrey Pines Reserve and Sunset Cliffs, and the tacos at Roberto’s.

How did you get started in modeling?

It is ironic that I ended up modeling; in grade school, I was ridiculed mercilessly for being fat. But when I was 12, I saw a movie about eating disorders on TV, and I learned that if I starved myself, I could get skinny. It made less of an impression on me that the anorexic girl in the movie died than the fact that I had a solution to my problem at school. So I got very skinny and ultimately became a model.

One night when I was 17, I was hanging out at the Pannikin in Del Mar, and a photographer told me I should be a model. I gave it a try and soon signed with an agency in Los Angeles, working part time while finishing up high school.

You are now billed as a plus-size model, but that isn’t how you started out, is it?

When I was a “skinny” model, I got very ill with a stomach virus. I had hardly eaten in 10 days when a fashion editor came up to and told me how fabulous I looked. I remember thinking, “Wow, that is what it takes to look fabulous in fashion.”

I did very well, working with all the best photographers, the best designers and the best magazines. Yet something nagged inside of me: Why was I starving myself to perpetuate this ideal illusion for other women to torture themselves? I asked myself if this was the impact I wanted to have on the world, and had to answer no.

After two years of modeling full time, I left the industry in search of health and a more meaningful direction for my life. I moved back to San Diego and worked at Barnes & Noble and Cafe Lulu downtown. I spent two years doing a lot of soul-searching and then decided finally to go to college.

Almost as soon as I arrived back in NYC, someone suggested I become a “plus-size” model. I had worked with plus-size model Emme before and thought she was heroic. Suddenly, it seemed so obvious that I should re-enter the fashion industry as a plus-size model, at a very normal size 10, by the way, and draw attention to body image and eating disorder issues, as well as body diversity in the media and fashion.

Given that the average American woman is 5-foot-4, weighs 140 pounds and wears a size 14, do you feel any resentment being tagged as a plus-size model

I think the term “plus-size model” is misleading because so few plus-size models wear plus-size clothing, but I love representing this demographic. I love representing curvy women, although some women – justifiably – do not feel a size 10 is really curvy enough.

You have broken a lot of modeling barriers for “plus-size” women. Do you think this is because the industry is becoming more realistic?

I don’t think it’s about realism at all. I love the fantasy of fashion, and fashion should remain a fantasy. I just don’t believe diversity must sacrifice fantasy, and I think the fashion industry is beginning to get that. Nowadays there are so many amazing plus-size models that it is hard to argue with so many images of beautiful, healthy, curvy women.

How did you come to terms with your version of “beautiful”?

I discovered self-acceptance somewhere on the beach in La Jolla, actually. I was walking on the beach and was feeling so self-conscious – cellulite, arms too fat, stomach not flat enough, thighs jiggling – and I suddenly realized everyone else on the beach was probably worried about the same stuff. Then and there I decided no longer to waste my life worrying about all that nonsense. I decided I would focus on being kind, funny and smart. That really gave me the “take me as I am” attitude I still have, and that is probably my most attractive quality.

In 2009, you completed your master’s in public administration in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School. Why was that important to you?

I have been successful as a model, and I love being an advocate for women, but I knew something in me needed more. Now finished with school, I have returned to fashion full time to use my career to advocate for the development issues I care about: global poverty/education and environmental sustainability. In January 2010, I spoke on a panel on fashion and environmental sustainability at the United Nations in Geneva; I have written green shopping tips for Glamour; and co-founded a nonprofit organization to fund scholarships for girls’ secondary education in Rwanda called the Komera Project.

That is an interesting nexus: fashion, global poverty and environmental sustainability. How do they overlap?

About 30 million people in developing countries work in the apparel industry. They endure excruciatingly long and monotonous work weeks and work in conditions we would not deem acceptable. Yet overwhelmingly these proud workers value their jobs for they are far superior to their alternative: forced labor, prostitution or subsistence agriculture, for example.

In this sense, fashion, or the garment industry, is an agent of economic development in Asia and Latin America. That being said, improvements can be made to improve working conditions in garment factories to further advance poverty reduction. As for the environmental impact of the garment industry, that has been receiving a lot of attention lately, and I am trying to raise awareness about how to be a “green fashionista.”

What motivates your philanthropic drive?

I want – more than anything – to be useful. I have been extremely fortunate and do feel a sense of duty to give back in some way. Ultimately, I want to have a positive impact on the Earth and the people living on it, and I try to achieve that in what I do.

Dillon is married to Gabe Levin and lives in New York City.

More on the Web
- Kate Dillon supports the Komera Project, an organization created to provide Rwandan girls with the opportunity to attend secondary school. For more information, go to www.facebook.com/pages/The-Komera-Project.
- An advocate for socially conscious style, Dillon is co-founder of www.stylecommune.com.

Five days per week from your flat screen TV and once per month on neighborhood newsstands, Oprah Winfrey appears perfectly styled from head to toe. Occasionally for Red Carpet appearances, and no matter what her size, Oprah herself is decked out from in perfect glamorous and form-flattering style. Want to transform Oprah’s glamorous look into a style you can wear for Ladies Night, Date Night, or Special Occasions?

Enter resident Oprah Show fashion expert Adam Glassman to your style rescue! Glassman is personally responsible for the executive decision to use real women within O magazine’s fashion spreads and maintains involvement in all aspects of O’s monthly cover shoots. Most recently, he has worked with fashion maven Sarah Jessica Parker on the debut of her new clothing line “Bitten.”

Here are 9 tips on how to work with (not against) plus sized curves:

* Dress for the size you are-not what you want to be or once were! Work with what you have! Own it.* Dress from the inside out. A well-fitting bra and shapewear will camouflage all lumps and bumps.* Clothes should skim your body, not cling to it! Think high-waist, wide trousers, and A-line or flared skirts.* Don’t cover your curves! Big clothes on big bodies only make you look bigger.* Skirts should end just before or under the kneecap. Your legs will look longer.* Shorter, fitted jackets will also flatter your legs-and waist.* Avoid elasticized waistbands. They might be comfortable, but they add bulk to your midsection.* Keep necklines open. A deep V- or scoop neck lengthens your neck.* A dress with a belt will cinch you in, focusing attention on your smaller waist.* Wide feet need to be counterbalanced with wide heels. A thinner heel only draws attention to your wider foot.

These plus size style tips are great guidelines to follow. Here’s a few more suggestions add to the list: DO try skirts that are designed to hit right at knee length, like the plus size pencil skirts. Also try secretary dresses made especially for plus size women. The built-in belt does wonders for creating the hourglass shape by accentuating the waistline!

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Plus size models and clothing have become a huge trend over the past few seasons. Curvy models have graced the catwalk (thanks Marc Jacobs), had an issue of V Magazine dedicated to them and stores have also created more plus size collections.

Macy Gray is the latest lady to jump on this season’s plus size bandwagon. According to WWD, the singer is set to relaunch her plus size line, which goes by the name of Humps, next year.

The range, which she launched in 2008, didn’t really take off when it hit the shelves but apparently Ms Gray has been “re-inspired”.

Singer Macy Gray is the latest lady to jump on this season’s plus size bandwagon, WWD reports. Gray is set to relaunch her plus size line, called Humps, next year. Her first designs hit shelves in 2008 but Gray has been re-inspired. She recently performed at the new Esprit store in NYC and remarked, “I was surprised [by the clothes],” she said. “I hadn’t been to Esprit in forever.” Perhaps we’ll be surprised by her designs?

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We are instituting a new weekly feature here at Plus Size Clothing Guide: a blog fav of the week!

We LOVE the plus size fashion blog community. And our favorite this week is Fatshionable.

This blogger is super cute and fashionable, as seen by her little black dress choice this week:

She’s a fashionista that wear a size 16 on top and 18 on bottom, according to her about page.  Her wardrobe is a great mix of styles and prices and will inspire any plus size girl.  If you’ve never seen her blog, then check it out! Everything is just as good as this post.