Social media is full of women of all shapes and sizes dressing up, dressing down, dressing expensively – dressing for all occasions, for all situations.
But never mind that, Vogue is finally here to validate your existence by… putting you in the fashion equivalent of a wet T-shirt, just in case you hadn’t had your lifetime’s fill of being reduced down to your body, reduced to a sexual silhouette rather than a sartorial one. Never mind those dreams you had of appearing in Vogue and looking as impeccably dressed or impossibly glamorous as the thousands of editorials produced with standard-sized fashion models – no, this is your moment to get your t*tties on display and call it a triumph because it’s… the only thing fashion magazines will do with you.
CAN WE JUST HAVE LARGER PEOPLE APPEARING IN ACTUAL FASHION FOR ONCE. You know, dressed, and on the same level as you’d see with standard models.
Fashion magazines and their constant lazy treatment of anyone above a certain size offends me because what they tend to do is amp up the sexual side, then sit back and expect applause for featuring them at all.
If Vogue wants to contribute to this conversation, what is missing is the respect of being seen as stylish.
When that starts happening - and maybe it's happening with the other images of Paloma in this issue - then I'll be impressed.
