Forward thinking Vogue Italia recently launched Vogue Curvy, a website dedicated to voluptuous stylistas:
The website features glam and curvy girls like Crystal Renn, Lizzie Miller, and Johanna Day, and lives by Tyra Banks’ mantra, “Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.”
First Italian Vogue made waves with the all black issue, now this. When you think of Italy, you don’t think of it as being particularly diverse, but they are showing and proving.
What do you think?
See more at www.vogue.it/en/vogue-curvy
February 24, 2010 6:09 pm
I don’t understand the worlds definition of curvy or voluptuous. These women are nothing far from the much smaller girls on the runway, they represent nothing that has to do with being curvy. They are just as regular as they want to be.
February 24, 2010 6:18 pm
Wow … big move. I think fashion is more open to being diverse in terms of color than it is in terms of size, so this is definitely a big step.
February 24, 2010 7:27 pm
crystal renn is most definitely curvy and she is absolutely gorgeous. i love that they are going in this direction because i find these models to be much more beautiful than the sickly ones they usually have. curvy girls just look healthier.. their face glows more; they just look lovely!
February 24, 2010 8:25 pm
I’m over it already! I have curves and am not model thin, but I’m not in the full-on Lane Bryant shopping size at the moment… but I have been in the past. I’ve always considered myself a fashionable person and I know how to camouflage my “problem” areas. When Vogue singles out “curvy” women and relegates us to a “special” website, it’s like saying there’s no way your could be fashionable enough to be in the pages of Vogue… so we’ll just throw you over here on this affiliate site. Newsflash! Women are getting curvier by the day and designers need to recognize that and learn how to design for us all, not relegate us to some offshoot website. I get what Italian Vogue is TRYING to do. But wouldn’t it be better to just merge it all and include REAL women of ALL shapes and sizes in their “normal” pages and online?
February 24, 2010 9:03 pm
“Women are getting curvier by the day…”
What is that supposed to mean? Do you mean fatter? Because that’s more accurate. No one needs to accept that.
I’m not against curvy, voluptuous (sp?) women at all. I wish I had curves in the right place. This skinny girl is jealous!
I am against the misuse of these words to make obesity the new healthy.
February 24, 2010 9:43 pm
I agree with most of the comments. To make a special “curvy” edition is ridiculous. How many model type women do you see on any given day? One? Out of a hundred?
February 24, 2010 11:15 pm
Vogue Italia also launched Vogue Black.
February 25, 2010 10:23 am
There are many beautiful plus BLACK plus size models, none are represented here.
February 25, 2010 2:06 pm
It’s more of an “inbetweenie” site, and I don’t mind seeing that. I give Franca Sozzani (Italian Vogue editor) some credit for doing this. Anna Wintour would never make this type of effort, and as an aside, I wonder who will be AW’s “curvy” profile for the April Shape Issue. If Mo’Nique wins an Oscar, she should be in the running, particularly in view of the fact that she lost 40 pounds and says she’s 14-16. They did Jill Scott at a size 16 a couple of years ago.