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Full Figured Fashion Week
June 16-18, 2011
New York City
Presented by
Hosted by Shanda Freeman
Please visit the FFFW website for more info and all the details.
A DEVOE SIGNATURE EVENT PRODUCTION
Queen Latifah is launching her own line of fashions on the Home Shopping Network in August but she doesn’t like the term “plus-size”.
“It’s just a word to bury at this point,” the singer/actress told Women’s Wear Daily. “It’s for all sizes.”
Queen Latifah is another voice joining the chorus of those who don’t particularly care for the term “plus-size”. Tyra prefers the term “fiercely real” and Marquita Pring prefers “curvy” especially when used to describe a fashion model who now is referred to as a “plus size model”.
Do you find the term “plus size” inappropriate ? Please leave a comment below.
Louise O’Reilly is a top Irish plus size fashion model who, despite her age, is making quite a statement in the industry and is poised to become one of the top international models.
At 5’8″ Louise is comfortable as a size 14-16 but once during an illness, she was a size 20-22. Whatever her numbers, it is her fresh, drop dead gorgeous looks that captures people’s attention and it only gets better from there.
Ms. O’Reilly is represented by:
Ireland : Morgan the Agency
Germany: Brigitte Models
For more on Louise O’Reilly
There is still time to enter the “Face of Full Figured Fashion Week™” Cover Model Search, but time is running out. Full Figured Fashion Week™ will run June 16-18, 2011 in New York City. The contest will end on March 31, 2011. The winner will be announced on April 15, 2011. For details on prizes, contest rules and regulations, and everything else you need to know to enter, go their Cover Model Search page and read all about it.
Sage Salzer is a beautiful plus size model originally from Ventura, CA. Having worked as a straight-size and plus-size model, Salzer has first hand knowledge of the challenges of working in the fashion industry when transitioning between size categories. Sage is on the National Advisory Committee of “Hardy Girls, Healthy Women“, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and well being of girls and women.
Sage Salzer has appeared in numerous top magazines and has represented some of the top retailers in the industry. Click for more of this plus model
Tonya Pittman is featured here on a billboard for the Canadian clothing store chain Addition Elle. The actual billboard is represented by the inserted image.
Tonya was among the plus size models who walked in the first plus size runway event during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York last fall.
More on plus model Tonya Pittman.
(August 26, 2010 – Photo by Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images AsiaPac)
Laura Wells is a plus size model who lives and works primarily out of Austrialia. She is with BGM Models, Sydney.
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Justine Legault is a Canadian beauty signed wth Scoop Agency, Montreal and Ford Toronto. Legault has appeared in several Canadian french language magazines and is a former Biotherm make up artist.
Click for more info and photos of Justine Legault.
Toccara Jones is a top plus size model who has been making steady inroads in the modeling industry since her days as a contestant on America’s Next Top Model. Ms. Jones along with Lizzie Miller and Ashley Graham were recently featured in the first ever Plus Size Fashion Show at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week sponsored by OnsStopPlus.com and hosted by Emme Aronson.
More about Toccara, aka, “Lady Hennessy” for her work as spokesmodel for Hennessy, the world’s No. 1 cognac , and more fab pix continue on the Toccara page.
Source: Wilhelmina Agency
Diane Hernandez is a former plus size contestant of America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 5. Hernandez is represented by Wilhelmina TEN/20.
More info on Diane Hernandez