If you learn nothing else today, you will learn (if you didn't know already) how amazing open-work stockings look on fat girls.
Volup 2 is a new magazine from ex-pat American plus-sized model and photographer, Velvet d'Amour. As far as I can tell she had a hand in photographing and styling almost every shoot in all 300+ pages of Volup 2, which she describes as:
A bilingual English/French online quarterly magazine showcasing diverse beauty, with an emphasis on curvy women, and exploring the generosity of Mind, Body and Spirit.D'Amour became famous when she was a 2006 Gaultier runway model and her continuing interest in fashion shows. That is, Volup 2 is a fashion mag--sort of. Fashion, clothes, bodies, makeup, locales. Femmey femme.
Most of them are classic hourglass and pear shapes, I wish we'd see more apples like me. :) However, amazing, beautiful, stunning work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with piterpanne- i love love seeing plus size models, but I still feel like my body falls short because I don't have a smaller waist and full hips/bust. Still just great to see posts like this though :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree. Feeling like the line for beauty ideals has been moved in your direction but still doesn't include you is a special kind of bummer.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason I was so struck by these images is because they are specifically high-fashion (is that still a word? I think I sound old-fashioned). And in that world there is usually so little wiggle room about size - it's this exhaustingly homogenous ideal - millions of images of one kind of body - that anything outside of the norm feels pretty shocking. Some of these women are quite big--it still surprises me. They're not hidden.
So I guess like many things it's an incremental change. I hope she keeps making them.
The stockings in the top pic are a little too bold and stripey for me, but with the right skirt they might look pretty cool!
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