Is Olivier Theyskens Coming Stateside to Helm Halston? — The Cut: New York Magazine’s Fashion Blog.
but i really love theyskens… i especially liked when he worked for rochas. he inspired me, so i shared.
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.
indiDenim announces the addition of a women’s plus size jean silhouette to its style lineup for women. indiDenim’s addition of plus sizes makes designer jeans a reality for the plus size consumer who is often overlooked by other premium denim brands.
Putting a (dare i say it) fat girl, on the cover of your mag does not constitute inclusiveness and variety. Nor does it speak to the volumes of different sizes, shapes and colors of people that are respresented in this vast world.
I am not going to waste more words on why this is not enough… NY Mag did a good job of that already.
So back in August of ‘07, Avenue announced that they would be carrying the Seven7 jeans line (formerly carried by LB). This was in my pre-blog days when I would just send random emails to my friends with my fashion annoyances or praises. This one was an annoyance, as they were only going to carry them online.
They have since smartened up, and have now decided to carry the brand in the stores. Definitely the right move, because as I’d mentioned in the email to my friends Seven7 brand jeans are NOT the kind of jean you just buy, you HAVE to try them on first. Especially if you’re over 5′4″ – you would more than likely end up going up about 3 sizes to get your length right.
There is actually a brand of jean that dliteful found at Macy’s during one of the weekend trips I took to visit her a while back. I have to ask the name of them again. They had a fit similar to S7, and the lengths were just right.
