Mark Fast also used plus-size models in Fall 2010, Fall 2011, and Spring 2012. Mark Fast and William Tempest each used plus-size models during their own London Fashion Week showings for Spring 2009, and again as part of All Walks Beyond the Catwalk event held on 19 September 2009 in association with the British Fashion Council. Italian plus-size fashion house Elena Mirò now regularly stages biannual prêt-à-porter shows during Milan Fashion Week. Gaultier also used plus-size models Marquita Pring and Crystal Renn in his Spring 2011 Ready-to-Wear show.

Jean-Paul Gaultier and John Galliano both used plus-size models in their Spring 2006 showings in Paris. Plus-size industry įashion designers are starting to look more closely at the earning potential from plus-size clothing, and have used plus-size models for their advertising campaigns and catwalks. Previously, the term 'large size model' was also frequently used. Synonymous and interchangeable with plus-size model is 'full-figured model', 'extended-sizes model', 'over-weight model', and 'outsize model'. This is especially true when participating in fashion editorials for mainstream fashion magazines. Therefore, plus-size models do not exclusively wear garments marketed as plus-size clothing. Plus-size models also engage in work that is not strictly related to selling clothing, e.g., stock photography and advertising photography for cosmetics, household and pharmaceutical products and sunglasses, footwear and watches. Plus-size clothing worn by plus-size models is typically catering for and marketed to either Big & Tall or Tall or Overweight men and women. Velvet D'Amour, model for John Galliano, then muse of Jean-Paul Gaultier, at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.Ī plus-size model is an individual size 12 and above who is engaged primarily in modeling plus-size clothing.

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