No Room For Size Zeroes as Beth Ditto Walks the Runway

By The Editors of StyleList Posted Oct 4th 2010 06:35PM

Gossip singer Beth Ditto has always embraced her plus size and Jean Paul Gaultier made sure she had the best threads to do so during a fashion show in Paris.

The voluptuous crooner -- who designs a plus-size range for British retailer Evans -- opened and closed a show this weekend while modeling Gaultier's elaborate creations.

Rocking a blunt black bob and wild sci-fi-esque blue eye shadow, the size 26 star also sang an Ike and Tina Turner classic for the well-heeled crowd.

Ditto -- who once appeared on Love's cover in the nude -- isn't the only curvy beauty to hit the runway. Miranda Kerr -- five months pregnant -- just took turn on the Balenciaga catwalk.

So, is this just a passing fad, or is the fashion world finally ready to embrace full-figured beauty? Guess we'll find out next season.

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Monday 04 October

By sam

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My Eyes! I can't see, It Burns!!!!

By andrea

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insecure much? ur a loser

By Glorious

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Horrible, isn't it!

By joefear

No room at all on any runway for a 10XXX jumbo jet like her!

By pps

ugh! she is so ugly.

By angieb

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wow happy to see most of us are not stuck on size 0, you go girl

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Glorifying obesity is not cool.
Telling people via photography that is it cool to eat like a pig is not cool.
This woman and those like her, me included, need to lose some freakin weight...it simply is not healthy.

By steve

She is a beautiful women. There are many many men, me included who think big women are beautiful. Go ahead and continue with your immature fat jokes losers

By bernadette

I think she looks beautiful..You go girl!

Tuesday 05 October

By SiastaEg

Men like big women if they can't get anything else. I guess you wouldn't lose her in the sheets.

By smj

It will be nice to see more clothes for larger people. Not everyone in the world a size 1.

By Ani

There's a big difference (no pun intended) between being larger than a size one and being morbidly obese. The average plus-size model, at a size 12 or so, is still overweight. However, being larger than that is NOT normal. The only reason that size 12 is an average is because there are, in fact, far too many people who are morbidly obese. Average does not necessarily equal healthy.

By Dea

I hate to break it to the author but being pregnant does not make you full-figured or curvy.

Brava to Beth Ditto, though.

By Rachel

She looks great and it's nice to see a designer creating something for a full figured woman to wear on the runway.

And I have to say those fishnets look great on her. I've got larger legs myself and I've stayed away from patterned tights, but now I'm thinking I might give it a try.

Women with tree trunks for legs shouldn't be allowed to wear fishnets.

i find it really refreshing, im a size 12 and its nice to see someone taking a stand, not only that but she looks so good in both outfits. i see the dumb fat jokes, but its probably someone who is just insecure with themselves so they need to say things like that. she is not disgusting or ugly, she is simply a larger size of a regular model. she has an attractive face and nice legs, i just dont see why someone would say she's ugly??? its not like she's showign a bunch of skin or anything. taylor momsen is way uglier than her for instance.

But she is not a size 12. She is at least a size 24 or larger. She is way too unhealthy. There is nothing wrong with loving yourself, but when there is a health problem (Obesity) at least try to work on it. Yes what I typed was mean. I don't like her views, so I was childish, that was wrong. She is unhealthy, just as are those who are too thin.

By Pookie

There's nothing wrong with a plus sized woman if she dresses properly. I understand the fashion 'concept' of distracting from certain areas of the body, but they dressed her terribly. In the left picture, she looks like she got snagged on a curtain rod. In the other, she looks like a waitress gone haywire. The hair and makeup are hideous too.

Nothing's going to disquise the fact that she's a plus sized woman. Simpler more stream-lined clothing will always be fashionable no matter what the size.

By f3773297

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"Hideous" is right!

By Bella Cullen

Why are they dressing this woman in that AWFUL outfit, terrible hair and makeup???? When will the public take overweight woman seriously and stop treating us like clowns??

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