CURVY IS UP with the new Marina Rinaldi Spring 2011 Denim Collection. Posing for this new curvy campaign of Marina Rinaldi is Crystal Renn, the fearless and the ultimate catwalk queen.
Ford+ model Marquita Pring speaks her own perspective About Plus Size Modeling to NYMag.Com. Just like Crystal Renn she hates curvier models to be categorized as “plus size models.”
Chenese Lewis and Ford Models Kate Dillon, Amy Lemons and Crystal Renn supports NOW Foundation’s video project “Let’s Talk About It” in celebration of the National Easting Disorders Week that is taking place from February 20-26, 2011. They shared their own stories and voices to help launch the video project.
Ford Plus Model “Crystal Renn” says if she gave into presure to remain plus size she would have been guilty of another eating disorder! See her interview special on video here.
Gary Dakin had struggled a lot in his goal to get plus size girls into the mainstream fashion. In a society that embraces sizeism, many in the fashion industry used to frown at plus size models and some clients would not give them preference. At the advent of size 0 during the nineties nobody wanted to shoot plus size images. However, after a decade of time Dakin had proven himself right. Payback time had started for him and for the rest of the plus size industry. The fashion industry had began to pay attention to him and to understand the cause that he has been fighting for.
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Stunningly beautiful plus size models Candice Huffine, Tara Lynn & Robyn Lawley rocked the internet when they posed for...
I have been designing, manufacturing and retailing women's plus size clothing since 2004. In an effort to better 
understand the women I design for I could not think of a better way to do that than to get involved with the issues effecting today's plus size woman.
I live part time in my hometown of Poteau Oklahoma and the rest of the time in Davao City Philippines where we do most of the design and manufacture of our products. How I became a designer and how I landed in Davao City is a story straight out of a fairytale.
I met my wife Carmen by chance in a chatroom while waiting for a client from my property management business. Carmen said "hello" and our relationship developed from there. I was visiting her in her hometown of Davao City when a little boy, merely 3 days old, was dropped on our doorstep. In the beginning I totally objected but my "soon to be" wife seen him as a gift from God since she could not have children of her own and I later came kicking and screaming into that reality.
At first our plan was just to send support back to him (Daniel) as adopting a child from a forein country takes a lot of 
time and money. After Carmen and I married we lived in the U.S. for about 4 month's and I knew she missed him terribly but one night I woke up and she was crying in her sleep and when I asked her why, she just stared at the ceiling for a moment and said "I really miss Daniel". In my heart I knew that she couldn't live apart from him and the decision to move to the Philippines seemed to be solitified in that one moment of clarity...but how do you support yourself and a family in a 3rd world country.
We started small by selling anything we could online and eventually we seen a need in the plus size clothing market and began designing our own line which led to our own manufacturing company in the Philippines. Thus American Islander Garments Mfg was born.
I never dreamed that I would be involved in women's plus size clothing nor that I would take up the banner for issues facing people of size. When examining where I stand with plus size activism I view myself more of an advocate than an activist hence the name "The Plus Size Advocate". Actually the name "The Plus Size Advocate" does not so much indicate who I am but mostly what this site is about "plus size advocacy".
I do not pretend to know what it's like to be a plus size woman (as obviously I'm not). I have a BMI of 27 so I'm not "YET" considered obese according to federal guidelines so I don't know what it's like to be obese either. I do however have a strong opinion about the way human beings should be treated, which is with dignity respect and acceptance regardless of age, sex, race or size.
My intention on this blog is to provide a platform for learning (for you and me) about plus size clothing, plus size politics, plus size opportunities and a safe haven for building confidence and body acceptance (not complacency).
Bobby G. Keith
Designer of Women's fashion forward trendy plus size clothing
P.S. Daniel is now adopted :)
