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NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S POLLYANNA – NSFW

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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SUMMER DOWN UNDER

As much of Australia is experiencing a heatwave at the moment – sending many women out to brave the harsh lighting and mirrors of swimwear stores!! – I thought this might be the time to add some shapely swimwear images from Cosmopolitan magazine’s Australian edition to remind us that “bikini ready” comes in larger sizes!

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RIGHT ON, TARGET!

Target released a fun commercial for US audiences in 2005 featuring Isaac Mizrahi and a mix of models of different sizes and ages to portray his “Luxury for Every Woman, Everywhere” design philosophy. Clearly a winning technique, as Mizrahi used the same idea in a 2009 campaign with Liz Claiborne.

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FABULOUS IN THE UK (NSFW)

It may only be a once-a-week newspaper magazine insert, but UK News of the World’s Fabulous magazine issue #25 boldly goes where only a few have been before them…mixed model sizes on a cover, AND naked! Inside the issue was a poll of readers asking which woman’s body they felt was “the ‘perfect’ body”. This [...]

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EN VOGUE: SHAPE ISSUE 2007

Vogue US April 2007 “Shape Issue” featured Crystal Renn and Hilary Rhoda in an editorial mixing high- and low-priced sports and day wear. Normally I would not display Hilary’s photos as she is listed as a US size 4 in the text of her images… HOWEVER… It appears in this editorial that Hilary was styled [...]

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SPRING FORWARD

From perhaps the late 1990s is this Spring booklet from retailer Holt Renfrew, which used to have quite a well-stocked plus-size designer section in all of its stores throughout Canada. Alas, these images now form something of an obituary as the section was ‘deleted’ when the stores underwent a nationwide makeover.

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