In the star’s new programme, curvy girls parade on the catwalk to win a contract with Whilelmina’s W Curve agency
Tyra Banks is to present a new programme which, for the first time in the history of TV, will see curvy girls between 13 and 19 years old compete on the catwalk. After the controversy surrounding the excessive thinness of Ann Ward, who won the next to last America’s Next Top Model, our curvy black icon will attempt to launch a new ideal of curvy beauty – one that we’re big fans of too – on American screens.
The TV schedules have recently given us different sitcoms that address – often with too much irony – the idea of freeing ourselves from the size 0 conception of beauty. However, we’re particularly pleased to note this revolutionary, innovative move of Tyra’s, which will bring beautiful, curvy girls onto the catwalk.
Jon Ilani is to present the programme alongside the black star. He’s the head of W Curve, the plus size model department of the Wilhelmina agency, which will present the winner with an attractive contract. “Ladies, grab a camera, keep it Fiercely Real, and don’t forget to smise”.
(Vogue.it)
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Marquita Pring explains why she prefers to be defined as ‘curvy’ rather than ‘plus-size’.
isn’t the only inhabitant of the curvy fashion universe. There’s a new model the sector’s talking about: Marquita Pring. We had the pleasure of meeting and doing an interview with her for our Curvy section, and we’ve seen her modelling for the new Evans plus-size fashion line as well as doing the Jean-Paul Gaultier spring-summer 2011 show. Now she’s done an interview with the Fashionista website, in which she says that she prefers to be defined as a curvy, not plus-size, model.
Marquita says that plus-size has negative connotations – it is a sort of label that she does not want applied to her. She feels she is simply a model and should not have to give additional explanations about her size. Her ambition is to be an example for all women, whatever their size.
The American model recognises herself better when she hears herself talked about as a curvy woman because, as she says, “I am a curvy, voluptuous, sexy woman and I think the word curvy relays a much more positive image. You can be a size 4 or 14 and be considered curvy.”
Picture above, Marquita Pring. Photo by Sølve Sundsbø for V Magazine
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