Fashion on the plus

Curves are making a come back in the style stakes as we see fuller figured clothes being made with serious chic in mind.

The weekend saw the ground-breaking Full-Figured Fashion Week in New York, with its aim to demonstrate that there is a strong and viable market for fashionable plus-size clothes and that big is beautiful.

And it’s not just New York that is taking the fashion industry by storm, it is happening worldwide. Dennis, a 33-year-old British blogger on website fatgirlslikeniceclothestoo thinks curves ‘are making a comeback’.

The average British dress size is a 16, so there must be plenty of young, fashionable women over that size, but the High Street is still struggling to delivery.

Initiatives like Full-Figured Fashion Week and singer Beth Ditto’s Eighties styled, 22-piece collection for Evans should start to change things though.

Ditto, a size 28, is proof that the fuller figure can be fashionable. Curvy pioneers include size 14 model Whitney Thompson who last year beat off whippet-thin competition to win America’s Next Top Model, and 21-year-old British singer Adele (size 16) who came out trumps after being photographed earlier this year for Anna Wintour at American Vogue – the same Anna Wintour who once famously told Oprah to lose weight before she would shoot her for the magazine.

If you want to find out more about FFFW and how it all went, take it from those who were there in the fantastic Young, Fat and Fabulous blog, where you can read about the successful event.