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Sharon Quinn: The Original Runway Diva: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
Jill Scott’s new show on HBO. I didn’t get a chance to watch tonight since I was working, but I’ll check it out on demand. I actually met Jill a week before she left for Kenya to begin taping this series. She was very sweet, and I was trying to get her to take on a new skin care regimen for a client that I was working on before she left. She has radiant skin in person!
If you saw the show, let me know your thoughts… or at least let me know you’re reading the blog 
Robin Givhan waxes poetic about how the fashion industry just isn’t dialed in…
“The challenge is to give non-famous women that same respect. For designers to get as excited about the average readers of Essence as they get about Michelle Obama. To hone their skills so that they can cut a dress in a size 14 as expertly — and frequently — as they cut one in a size 6.”
I might cop the leather jacket… i wish it had just a tad bit more adornment, but I can rock it…
Exerpt from the article:
It is an open secret that most women are not size two and they are not six feet tall. And yet, the tiny percentage of the population who conforms to those dimensions seems to be the target of the fashion industry. Rarely do you see fashion that is targeted at the full size woman.
For years the full size woman has been treated as a minority while in fact they have been the majority. Full size women are not only mothers and housewives they are also business women. Trends are shifting and one even sees full size woman models here and there.
It is as if the fashion industry is slowly starting to wake up to the fact that there is a lucrative market for the taking. Not only are they also fashion conscious and sometimes dedicated fashion divas, but the full size woman can look absolutely spectacular in clothing designed for her posture.
sound familiar? *cough* black vogue *cough*
if you build it (in the right way), we will come.
but they don’t hear me though.
I came in here to blog about this… Forever 21 goes plus!
but this poster beat me to it Kate Harding
and i so totally enjoyed her post, so i’m linking you there instead…
also, Rachel Pally is introducing a plus line.
… i can’t figure out if this is a fad – or if people really give a shit now.
time will tell.
