I was super shocked to see these gorgeous pics of real, curvy women from the June 2011 Vogue Italia shot by photographer Steven Meisel. . .
Lately (in the U.S. anyway) “curvy” has become synonymous with extremely overweight. While that may make women who are extremely overweight feel good about their figures, it ends up giving many of us who are actually curvy a bit of a complex about being curvy. I can certainly empathize with extremely overweight women –to a degree–but I also feel really, really peeved that we have this either/or thing in our world: either you are skinny and fashionable, or curvy and grossly overweight. This either/or malarkey does nothing for those of us who are somewhere in between no breasted boyish bodies and over-fed overweight bodies. Here’s one of the shots so you can see what I mean:
most men think this woman's sexy. so, why doesn't the fashion industry?
And check out this slide show on the Vogue Italia site to see some of the controversy that’s been stirred up.
(hat tip to Fashion Gone Rogue )
