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Tracy Kinnaman, one of our contributers, is running in the "Best in lifestyle" section of a contest to determine the most popular San Diego blogs. The competition is put on by Influence SD, and is a first for this year. 

Currently we are in 6th place, which is fabulous considering how many blogs are competing, but we would love to edge our way into 5th(We are only 35 votes away)! You see, the top 5 blogs voted on by you are taken into consideration by a panel and one is determined the best San Diego blog. 

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Thank you SD fashion mavens we truly appreciate ALL your votes and if the contest continues you can bet we'll run again next year! 

Digital Feed - Need to Know 03.22.10

A. Let's grab tea with some famous fashion designers / Daily Front Row

B. Beyonce's fragrance Heat is a huge success / Stuff

C. Protect the firmness of your butt with a butt bra (not the best way to be sexy!) / Coco Perez

D. Wear a Valentino tee and help children affected by the Haiti eartquake: winning combination ! / Daily Front Row

E. Wear a "kind of McQueen's dress" for less at Topshop / Fashionista

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: In Its Entirety

I got several requests from designers and friends to post my term paper on plus-size models in one large post so they could catch up on anythig they missed, so here it is, 12 pages single-spaced! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: Mark Fast

The American fashion industry has a lot to learn from its international counterparts. Case in point, Canadian born designer Mark Fast who made headlines worldwide when he integrated three plus-size models into his show at September’s London Fall Fashion Week and had them walk alongside straight-sized models (Blanchard). The most jawing aspect of the story is that the designer says he didn’t think twice about his decision and had no idea he would receive such incredible praise (Blanchard). 

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Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: Karl Lagerfeld

This is one of the very last installments of the extensize research I conducted on the plus-size modeling indusrty and its place in American high fashion, scroll down to read all the previous entries on this topic.

Although the past seven months have shown growth in the integration of plus size models into the arena of high fashion, there are certainly a few set backs as well, the most prominent and worthy of discussion are the remarks Chanel legend Karl Lagerfeld made about the visual nature of plus-size models. Lagerfeld was questioned by German Focus Magazine regarding his opinion of another German magazine Brigitte’s commitment to use ordinary women in their fashion spreads as opposed to professional models. He exclaimed that the idea was, “absurd” and the women who dislike the thin models he is famous for booking are "Fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly,” (Hintz-Zambrano). He furthered the statement by explaining why plus-size models have yet to break into the fashion industry saying that fashion is about, "dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women," (Hintz-Zambrano).

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: V Magazine Size Issue

The second layout from the V Size Issue this essay will discuss is an eight page photo feature that pitched plus-size model Crystal Renn against straight-size model Jacquelyn Jablonski in a side-by-side comparison of the models wearing the same outfit. The piece is titled, “One Size Fits All,” and plays on the idea that bright, fun, spring trends look great on just about any figure (V, 98). In each of the four shots both models are wearing the exact same outfit, styled identically with the same hair and makeup. They both pose similarly with the same basic stance and then each model varies it slightly. For example, in the first set of photos each model stands with her hands on her hips facing the camera straight on with knees bent and legs bowed outwards and leans forward on the tip toes of her platform Versace heels.

Sometimes Styling, Means Ironing!

When I walked into the Se hotel downtown I was overtaken by the feeling of warmth in the lobby, I felt incredibly welcome and at ease because of the Latinos who filled the space. Each one with their Latino Film Festival badges hanging with pride from their necks, as if in their minds no piece of couture could make them better outfitted to celebrate, tonight, their culture.

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: V Magazine Size Issue

More than anything else Renn speaks to the importance of diversity within the American high fashion industry. It’s not that she believes that all models should be plus size models, but rather that other shapes of women should be represented on the runways and in the editorial pages of magazines. She believes that we, “Want to see ourselves reflected in the culture, whatever that may look like,” (Renn, 184). She points out the biggest difference between American magazines and European editions saying,

When I model in Europe, I’m less likely to be labeled “plus” in the magazine. I’m just a girl, just Crystal. Those magazines don’t extend type justifying my presence in their pages the way American magazines often do. Americans are more likely to scrabble desperately to point out the plus girl, soliciting applause for using her, differentiating her from all the normal girls. Ooh, let’s title this story ‘Dangerous Curves’ or ‘Larger Than Life!” (Renn, 184).

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: Crystal Renn

Here is the second part of the installment of our essay on plus-size models in the high fashion industry that focuses on the gorgeous Crystal Renn, LOVE HER! Scroll down the home page of our site to read all the previous installments. 

Ford provided an arena for Crystal to grow, no pun intended. From the moment she walked through the door she was greeted by now VP, Gary Dakin. Dakin assured Renn that she would be a successful plus size model (he was correct), but told her she needed time to recover, to gain weight and to adjust to her new figure(Renn, 135). She was sick for months after moving into the Ford model apartment and was unable to work, but gradually her body began to trust her once more, and she it.

Lady Gaga's "Telephone"

Lady Gaga and Beyonce, what could be better? I have been blaring “Telephone” in my car, at the gym, or before going out for weeks now; it’s the ultimate girl’s night anthem. All about having too much fun out with your girls to worry about picking up a certain someone's call! 

So when I found out the video dropped today I was so excited…check it out here, it is definitely worth seeing since EVERYONE in the fashion and pop-culture world will be talking about it come tomorrow morning. The fashion choices Gaga makes are always avante garde, but big players in the fashion industry and fashionistas alike look to her for what's new and hot. Let us know your opinion, the video is pretty crazy!

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry: Crystal Renn

Here is the fourth installment of our report of plus size models in the American high fashion industry, and it's all out our girl Crystal Renn, LOVE her! Scroll down the blog to find earlier installments. 

Crystal Renn is another supermodel who knows the pressures of the high fashion modeling industry all to well. The now plus-sized and incredibly successful model penned her first tell-all autobiography, Hungry this winter. The book details her journey from age sixteen when she was spotted by a New York model scout and told she could be the next Giselle. Renn dropped seventy pounds in an effort to conform to the photos of models in high the fashion magazines she dreamed of one day posing for. After months of starving herself and exercising nonstop Renn found herself the envy of other girls at school, the object of male attention, and most importantly finally ready to leave her small town of Clinton and move to New York (Renn).

Digital Feed - Need to Know 03.12.10

A. Dior makes burned wood fragrance bottle / Fashion Week Daily

B. The blogger Bryan Boy tweets about Oprah and Anna / Fashionista

C. Interesting fashion for Dsquared: Bone Heels / The Frisky

D. Mickey and Minnie Mouse become fashionable with Dooney & Burke / Coco Perez

E. The battle to save animals' fur leaves celebs naked / Just Jared

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry

Here is the third installment of my research paper on plus-size models in the American high fashion industry. Scroll down to read the first and second post. 

Supermodel Lara Stone stands out among the crowd of “straight-size” (as opposed to plus-size), waifs walking the runways today. At five-foot-ten her physique calls for a size four, not the industry size zero. January 2010’s American Vogue spotlighted Stone’s rise to stardom and the struggles she faced along her way, the most perpetual of which being that she was deemed “fat” (Johnson). Albeit Stone is two sizes larger than the average model, she has walked the runway for almost every major industry designer including Marc Jacobs and has been featured in campaigns for Givenchy, Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss. She even has the likes of famed thin model proponent Karl Lagerfeld saying, “Lara Stone has a gorgeous women’s body” (Johnson).

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry

This is the second installment of my 20 page research paper I have chosen to share with you(scroll down to read the first), it focuses on the uproar surrounding the appearance of Lizzi Miller, read on!

    The American public and magazine editors alike have had enough, and the always body glorifying Glamour magazine fought back in their September 2009 issue with a feature on loving one’s body. Within the text of the story was one three by three inch photo of 20-year-old model Lizzi Miller sitting with crossed arms that cover her breasts and rest on her crossed legs. She wears nothing but a g-string thong, but her buttocks is not exposed, she smiles contentedly and looks as though she herself embodies the message of the feature story, “loving one’s body”. This one particular photo dominated not only the main stream media, but the “blogosphere” everyone from MSN to Perez Hilton and Jezebel.com discussed their opinion of Glamour’s “girl on page 194”. Newsweek.com even dedicated a webpage to the renewed debate over women’s body image (Inbar). The reason the photo cause such an uproar is because Lizzi weighs 180 lbs and is a plus size model; in the photo she does nothing to hide the unabashed lower stomach fat that cynics would term a “belly fat roll”.

Plus Size Models in the American High Fashion Industry

 

Hello Readers! I have taken a week of leave from contributing to the blog as I compose what is to be my last collegic research paper! I have so missed posting though, that I wanted to share with all of you what I have been doing this week. Here is the first of 7 installments of my essay on the plus size model in today's high fashion industry. 

It’s hard to say which came first-the superskinny model or the size 0 sample. Either way, the trend has been tough on both the models, who find it nearly impossible to maintain that body type past the age of seventeen, and the magazines that want to show clothes on models who aren’t painfully thin. In the old days, stylists came to a shoot armed with pins to make the clothes fit the model. Now the relevant tool is a pair of scissors.

                                           American Vogue, January 2010

La Jolla Fashion Film Festival: Update 1

With bloggers in the front row of fashion weeks, live streaming runway shows, and the explosion of fashion ecommerce sites; fashion has made a digital shift. Out of this digital paradigm has emerged a new art form and marketing channel - the fashion film. The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival (LJFFF) sets out to embrace the proliferation of this new digital media genre with the debut of first annual fashion film festival in America.

These evolutionary events in the world of fashion will begin on Friday, April 23, 2010 and will conclude with a cinematic finale on Saturday, April 24, 2010. The events will take place in and around La Jolla's pristine coastline, parks, bays and famous Prospect Avenue, offering attendees a world-class seaside resort experience.

Digital Feed - Need to Know 03.05.10

A. The Lady Dior video premiere on March 5th, just before the Dior fashion show in Paris / Fashionista

B. Paul Smith has created a really cute storage box for our precious jewelry / Fashion Week Daily

C. French Connection UK teamed up with the Internet phenomenon ChatRoulette to offer clothing voucher / Coco Perez

D. Chic and limited edition security device for our closet by Karl Lagerfeld / Fashion Week Daily

E. Alexa Chung made Ebay buyers crazy / Vogue

FashionStreetSD.com is Looking for Interns

 
Want to break into the fashion industry? Love graphic design, party planning, and attending the best insider events? Want to work in PR or advertising? 

Did you know that FashionstreetSD.com currently has interns from all over the world? We offer an unparalleled opportunity to work in the booming San Diego fashion scene as a fashion reporter attending industry events, trunk and fashion shows, and interviewing local designers.

This Week's Fashion Events in San Diego 3-01-10

 

The best fashion related events in San Diego can be found right HERE!  Want a preview of this week's official fashion calendar of SD fabulous parties?  Check it out...

There's a fashion show and dance party tribute to Alexander McQueen, a Green Carpet Oscar Party, the fashion rules party at Neiman Marcus, and oh so much more.  Just click here to see the calendar.  If you love it, you know you can have it sent to your inbox each week!  We like to make things easy for you...

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