Plus sized models shake up the run way

by Morgan Davy

Shoppers at the Quinte Mall in Belleville this week had a positive reaction to Eden Miller’s big shake up at the Mercedes-Benz fashion week in New York.

Miller created a buzz of excitement when she debuted as the first designer in fashion week’s 70-year history to feature only plus sized models in her runway show last week.

Felicity Coers, manager of the Bootlegger store, says she’s been waiting to see this type of change in the fashion industry.

“It’s nice to finally see a heavier set woman on the runway.” She said.

Coers was happy to offer her opinion on a photo of an angular size two model, saying that she found the woman too skinny.

“There’s nothing good about that,” she said.

A female shopper, who wished to remain unnamed, was shown a photo of the plus sized model. She said it was not what she wanted to see.

“She looks fatty, she doesn’t look like a model,” she said with a chuckle, “Models are supposed to look sexy and walk light weight and fast.”

Corey Rice, a young man in his early twenties, reacted to the plus size woman’s photo with a smile and said that he found this shape much more appealing.

“I’m more into curves than nothing at all,” said Rice, “my friends would say the sane thing.”

John Uings, a man in his late fifties, said that he liked the confidence he saw in the larger model, and that the exaggerated thinness of the average model was overdone.

“I think the other one is the classic skinny woman, an unhealthy image,” said Uings.

The majority of people Qnet News reporters talked to in the Quinte Mall felt that the risk Miller took was a change for the better.

Another mall employee, a larger-sized woman, best summed this up when she talked about the plus size model’s similarities to herself.

“I think it’s fantastic. They should be featuring us all. Regardless of size,” she said.