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This television commercial for Elena Miro launching their charitable Dona L’Usato program was filmed over February 13-14, 2010 in Barcelona.  Customers can bring in their used clothing and receive a discount towards their new purchase of items from the Elena Miro 25th Anniversary collection.

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Dear Very Patient Readers,
I am SO SORRY it has taken me so long to post the winners of the giveaway.  I was waiting and waiting for my newsagent to tell me that I had more than 2 copies to give…but poor ol’ Australia just hasn’t been lucky with getting any of the second print run [...]

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Ahhhh, fashion.  While the fashion catwalks are currently filled with winter furs and heavy coats, editorials published in the last weeks have seen larger models photographed in underwear as outerwear, and outwear displaying underwear!
The following series of images comes from Yo Dona magazine issue #248, the fashion supplement to Spain’s Elmundo newspaper.  While the photographer [...]

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Terry Tsiolis and Inga Eiriksdottir worked together for V Magazine’s Size Issue and have again collaborated to create a beautiful editorial for Vogue Russia’s March 2010 issue.  This series of images has all the elements of the swinging sixties – cat’s eye liner, retro lingerie, see-through trenchcoats(!) and bouffant hair – yet still feels surprisingly [...]

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Elena Miro launched its Fall/Winter 2010 line (as usual) during the first show scheduled of the Milano Moda Donna fashion week on February 24, 2010.  Rich jewel tones in silk and taffeta, metallic wool and laser-cut suiting, buttery-soft leather boots, devore velvets and recurring motifs in accessories evoke an Orientalist/1940s feeling.

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Australian agency Bella Models recently staged a Vanity Fair-style shoot featuring 11 of its models in a Sydney studio, and invited media to watch as the shoot advanced through the day.  Although the text accompanying the video states that the images will be used for a 2011 calendar, the information is unconfirmed by the agency.
Videographer: [...]

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STEADFAST

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Readers may recall the uproar around knitwear designer Mark Fast’s use of larger models when showing his S/S 2010 collection during London Fashion Week. As a continuation of his belief that his fashion can be worn by fuller-bodied women, his advertising campaign/lookbook for the Faster extension line presented two different-sized models in the same clothes. The full set of images by Fiona Garden are after the jump…

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V LOVE U, AND I DO TOO – SIZE ISSUE GIVEAWAY!!

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It was released on January 14 – but did you find your copy at the newsstand?  Even though it’s gone into a second printing, we all know how hard it has been to find copies of this magazine in the U.S. – imagine how much harder it is to find in Europe, Australia and South [...]

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‘CURVES AHEAD’ – AN INTERVIEW

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INTERVIEW: V MAGAZINE’S “CURVES AHEAD” MODELS!
There are models who are in the right place at the right time; then there are models who are the right face at the right time. Michelle Olson and Kasia Pilewicz are two such women; both were already working with big name fashion clients when they were booked for V Magazine’s issue 63, entitled “The Size Issue – Every Body Is Beautiful”…

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LIVE IN THE MOMENT

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Who says that women sized 12 can’t be sexy in the New Year’s Eve? Here’s fashion that recommends you live in the moment and stop waiting before you diet. In 2010 – love yourselves – so says Walla of Israel, featuring model Ray Segev

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MOMENTS: CACIQUE INTIMATES LAUNCH, 2000

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Ah, those halcyon days of larger models on catwalks wearing skimpy little numbers….truly the beginning of the runway revolution!  Following is the video of the first ever big-production show conducted by Lane Bryant, on the occasion of the launch of Cacique Intimates in New York on February 1, 2000.  Celebrities appearing in the show included [...]

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LITTLE MISS SECRETARY

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Christina Schmidt looks cute and funky in Canadian designer Stefanie Bezaire’s premiere collection, available via Etsy.com.  Pretty bow accessories, gloves and bright stockings lift the garments from work-wear to chic lady-geek and beyond

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LOOKBOOK: ELENA MIRO SS/09

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The following images are from the Elena Miro Spring/Summer 2009 lookbook, shot on location on the island of Cape Verde.  My gratitude goes to the wonderful people at Miroglio Group for supplying them to this archive.
Photographer: Fiorenzo Borghi
Models: Anja Geyer, Milina Huckova, Inga Eiriksdottir (in order of appearance)

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BEST LAYERED PLANS…

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12+ model Gwyneth Harrison models winter fashion in December 2009’s UK Guardian

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SPRING IS SPRUNG

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Marina Rinaldi’s MR Giorno collection for Spring 2010 has been launched, arriving in northern hemisphere stores very soon if not already there…a bit hard to imagine wearing floaty dresses while the snow keeps falling!
Model: Kate Dillon
Photographer: Max Cardelli

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EVEN BETTER THAN NUDE

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U.S. Glamour has released a preview of the February 2010 issue featuring Crystal Renn – no doubt to make sure we pick it up when we collect our V Magazine from the newsstand…

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SLEEK (NSFW)

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Berlin-based art and fashion magazine SLEEK features Crystal Renn by Cameron Krone in their Winter 2009/10 issue…

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V MAGAZINE: CURVES AHEAD VIDEO

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Watch “Curves Ahead” – the preview video for V Magazine’s issue #63 SIZE ISSUE by Bell Soto…

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V MAGAZINE: PREVIEW #1

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V Magazine’s Issue #63 features Crystal Renn and Jacquelyn Jablonski facing off in the same looks, but who looks hottest? Cast your vote…

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NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S POLLYANNA – NSFW

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Pollyanna McIntosh gives silk a hot new landscape in this 12-page editorial for Vogue UK Dec 2003, shot by Nick Knight…

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