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Oh Amazon, How I love thee Real by MYHABIT

December 14, 2011
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When Amazon’s MYHABIT, a membership-only shopping site offering up to 60% off on fashion items, first appeared on the net I admit I blogged about it but I was less than impressed. There was nothing for me to purchase. Except [...]

Plus Size Salons in UK.. WHOA?!

October 24, 2011
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Recently a salon in UK, called Hair by Bashar, opened featuring extra-large salon seats, bigger gowns, and a wider neck insert on their wash bowls. A plus size salon really!? The 31 year old stylist, Trim Bashar Brown, opened his salon [...]

Plus size fashion: More than just a trend or fad

September 6, 2010
Confident Plus Size woman

A recognition of the mainstream retailers, designers, bloggers, and experts playing to the plus size community 2010 has marked unprecedented strides for plus size fashion: Full Figured Fashion Week, One Stop Plus debuting at New York Fashion Week, the Lane [...]

Full Figured Fashion Week Presents The State of the Curvy Community Panel Discussion

May 13, 2010
Full Figured Fashion Week's Curvy Collective

Listening to the news, articles circulating through the internet, the media would have you believe that the plus size woman is a burden to society, with no fashionable options, a second-class citizen, and one who should be ashamed to exist.  [...]

A New Kind of Vintage Chic- Stefanie Bezaire

May 5, 2010
Canadian Plus Size Designer- Stefanie Bezaire

A little while ago, I stumbled across this new fashion line for the chic plus size woman. With a little bit of vintage flair, a whole lot of attitude, and a line that is GREEN, I had to peer into [...]

The Plus Academy Bay Area Open House

March 23, 2010
Crystal Renn on the catwalk for Mark Fast

Attention Bay Area aspiring plus size models!!! Have you wanted to be a plus size model, yet you never really knew where to begin? Have you ever dreamt of seeing yourself and your curves rock the runway, but knew you [...]

Talking fashion with Musings of a Fatshionista

March 17, 2010
Musings of a Fatshionista

Yesterday, my eyes fell upon such an innovative and jaw dropping post, that had me cheesing, gasping, smiling from ear to ear with plus sized glee! You see, Christina, from Musings of a Fatshionista dropped the most magnificent lookbook of [...]

Revisiting my Open Letter to the Retail Industry

March 12, 2010

So, I have been thinking… perusing the internet, wondering, as I seem to see this constant theme popping up everywhere, as if the world is trying to steer the plus size woman onto a certain fashion path…..  it leaves me [...]

Plus Model Magazine and Whitney Thompson from ANTM join forces

December 4, 2009

I got the most amazing jewel in my mailbox last night! Whitney Thompson, the first plus model to win America’s Next Top Model will grace January’s Edition of Plus Model Magazine! Editor of PLUS Model Magazine Madeline (Maddy) Figueroa-Jones, shares [...]

No one wants to see curvy women

October 12, 2009

You Heard ME! Well, at least Karl Lagerfeld thinks so. Quoted for saying this very ugly comment was none other than the German famed designer, Karl Lagerfeld. In response to Germany’s fashion magazine Brigette banning professional models, due to an [...]