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Plus-sized models appear on the catwalk for the Myer Big is Beautiful show during the Mercedes Benz Sydney Fashion Festival.<\/div>\n As the use of plus-size models on magazine covers and runways becomes more popular, it is refreshing to see the fashion industry embrace a variety of shapes and sizes.
\nBut in trying to strike a balance, are some designers going too far?
\nAustralian department store Myer hosted a Big is Beautiful show during Sydney\u2019s Fashion Festival yesterday, hiring plus-size girls to model outfits by various labels.
\nRobyn Lawley – the first ever plus-size model to feature in Vogue Australia – opened the show in a stunning black assymetric dress.<\/p>\n
But while some girls looked healthy modelling sizes 16 to 24, others appeared somewhat overweight.
\nAdopting the slogan \u2018Big is Beautiful\u2019, and thus encouraging women to remain unhealthy, could be classed as almost as harmful as promoting the controversial \u2018size zero.\u2019
\nThe show has sparked an online debate as The Australian journalist Damian Woolbough branded the choice of models \u2018irresponsible.\u2019
\nDamian wrote: \u2018There is a place for women of all sizes in the fashion media, as seen by the positive response to a plus-size shoot with Lawley in this month\u2019s Vogue Australia, but obese models send just as irresponsible a message about the need for healthy eating and exercise as models with protruding clavicles and ribcages.\u2019<\/p>\n
But the post received a series of comments from readers defending Myer\u2019s move.
\nAnd Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum warned the dangers of seeing skinny models on the runway far outweigh the message that plus-sized girls send.
\nHe said: \u2018Is it ok to be overweight? No\u2019.
\n\u2018But if you are big and big boned, people come in all shapes and sizes,it would be monstrously wrong to say the models are just overweight\u2019.
\n\u2018If they are running a show which has big girls modelling for big girls, then that would be totally appropriate\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018Sending skinny girls down the runway does more damage than you might expect this show to be doing\u2019.
\n\u2018If the show Big is Beautiful is for ladies that are size 18 because that is their natural size then I see no problem.\u2019
\nEither way, it seems not everyone is sold on the idea that big is beautiful.
\nJust 64 tickets were snapped up for the show – of the 500 available.
\nHarper\u2019s Bazaar editor Edwina McCann told the Sydney Morning Herald: \u2018I don\u2019t think the consumer is as obsessed with plus-size as the media is.<\/p>\n
\u2018I think the consumer is quite happy to accept the fact that a model, like an Olympic swimmer, is usually an exceptional beauty and doesn\u2019t look like the rest of us.\u2019 <\/p>\n
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