New York Fashion Week to Feature Plus Size Models
An article by Sarah
Posted September 14, 2010 
For the first time at New York Fashion Week there will be a runway show featuring plus size models.
Nancy Le Winter, one of the show’s organisers, told the BBC’s Laura Trevelyan that designers are finally recognising that larger women want to be fashionable too.
The BBC reports, to view the video of Lizzie Miller, please visit their website.
This tall, striking, curvy 21-year-old is preparing to take part in what will be the first ever catwalk show during New York fashion week that only features plus-size models – that is US size 12 (UK size 16) and above.
After eight years in the modelling business, Lizzie is celebrating her moment in the limelight.
She will be on the catwalk as what she calls the “superbowl” of fashion is taking place around her, in the Lincoln Centre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Lizzie has been waiting a long time for fashion to embrace the fuller figure. No longer relegated to the catalogues, plus-size models like Lizzie are now in demand.
Lizzie relates with delight how on a shoot in Spain recently, she was encouraged to express herself creatively.
Nancy Le Winter, editorial director of OneStopPlus.com, an online retailer for plus-size women, is one of the plus-size show’s organisers;
“This show is a validation of the 62% of American women who are plus size,” says Nancy.
“It’s about empowerment. There has been a mistaken notion as to what inspires women – a size two woman may be inspired by a size zero model, but a size 12, 14, 18 woman won’t be. We would like to see something we can identify with on the runway.”
