I love a great editorial, especially when it is a plus size model in a high fashion magazine- such as Vogue. Enter in the current โitโ plus size model, Robyn Lawley! You may remember her from Vogue Italiaโs Belle Vere cover shoot; well Miss Lawley is at it again, this time making waves over at Vogue Australia!
Hopefully one day, we can bring this fabulous showcase of plus size fashion from across the pond and from down under to the US- yes? Am I being too wishful in my thinking here?
From Stylite, Editor in Chief, Kirstie Clements opens up about working with Robyn Lawley and plus size fashion:
โThis is the first time Vogue Australia has shot a larger model and of course now that we have done it,ย I ask myself why we didnโt do it sooner. But thatโs because Robyn is especially gorgeous.ย I went to the shoot to meet her and was transfixed by her beauty and poise. She is a truly super duper model. When a plus size model first turns up to the studio, she may be an anomaly to a team normally used to working with size 6โs, but once photographer Max Doyle started shooting Robyn, we quickly readjusted our preconceived notions of beauty.ย She doesnโt actually look plus size to me at all now.ย I said to a colleague on set later that day,ย โAnd men like curves donโt they?โย He looked at me like I was an idiot. โYes Kirsty, we certainly doโ was his laconic reply. Itโs an interesting conversation โ the world of high fashion and fuller-figured women. One that needs to be continuedโ.
Yes, I could not agree more! Well, without any further ado, here is the CURVE photo shoot with Robyn Lawley in Vogue Australia:
Robyn Lawley in First Vogue Australia Plus Size Spread
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What is even greater in this shoot, is that Robyn Lawley is clothed. CLOTHED fashionably, edgy, sensually, AND giving me a bit of Miss Linda Evangelista! I dunno! BUT, this fact, even Robyn Lawleyโs agent,ย Chelsea Bonner, the director of plus size-specialist agency Bella Model Management, sees thisย Vogue Australiaย editorial is an even sweeter victory than theย Vogue Italiaย cover.ย
โThe amazing thing about theย VogueAustraliaย shoot is that they actually dressed her โ went out and found these beautiful designer garments to wearโ Bonner toldfrockwriter. โWhich just proves the point that there is clothing available for plus size models to wear in high fashion, it just takes a little bit of extra effort to find them.Vogue Australiaย went to that effort and the results are incredible.โ




Of the rollercoaster media ride that ensued in the wake of the Italian cover, Bonner adds, โIt went viral worldwide, has been commented on in I donโt know how many hundreds of magazines, blog sites and newspapers. And it reflects, I think, definitely the shift in consumers. Women want to see more realistic-sized models in magazines. Theyโre screaming for it. The response that we had fromย Italian Voguewas absolutely out of control. But my personal opinion is that Australianย Vogueย has blown Italianย Vogueย out of the water because of the fact that it is a true fashion editorial โ rather than having curvy girls in lingerie, like they normally do. Itโs not just having a token plus size model. Itโs a true fashion editorial.โ
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NOW, if only we could get the same love and feature in the US, I will be completely happy!
Robyn looks amazing!! She is an absolute delight, I canโt wait to see what she does next!
I LOVE it! And I am happy that she is wearing clothes! LOLย
Robyn looks amazing!! She is an absolute delight, I canโt wait to see what she does next!
I absolutely adore the spread.ย It is beautiful, tasteful, classic clothing.ย She doesnโt seem plus-sized, and maybe she is just plus sized to Vogue (erโฆ not size 0?) and I donโt think anyone deserves labelling, other than she is beautiful and elegant and Iโm happy for the work sheโs doing.ย I canโt think of a straight man alive that wouldnโt be willing to objectify her after looking at that spread, and I think if you told them she was โplus sizedโ theyโd stop drooling momentarily, look at you with a dazed expression, โwhuhhh?โ, then just go back to drooling. ย
I am glad that Vogue is trying to push their tiny envelope, but dearies, you have quite a long way to go before youโre really including a significant portion of womenโs body sizes and shapes.ย Go outside and walk down the street and experience the grand spectrum of female beauty out there.ย Consider there are verdant hills, and brazen desserts, crisp mountains, gentle plains, and raging oceans out thereโand even if one or another isnโt your preferred cup of tea, certainly you can cherish their uniqueness and experience their splendor.ย In a moment, at a certain angle, with a certain dash of lighting and a certain drape of fabric, to find beauty in anyone.ย But you must look to see it, and if youโre so obtuse as to refuse to actually open your eyes and see the world and appreciate itโs wealth and wonder and gifts, well, youโre only hurting yourself.
I would like to see folks quit disclosing sizes, and if anything is necessary just disclose concrete measurements and have done with.ย 36-26-36 tells me far more than size 0, size 10, size 18, size 32 ever will. ย
While Iโm cranking away on sizesโI hate it when you read reviews and they say something fit โtrue to size.โย Most women donโt know their measurementsโitโs why every website comes with an explanation how in their size charts.ย I think most reviewers just say true to size to mean โI picked the number I thought I was, and it turned out ok.โ
wow she is beautiful! Love to see new faces in the plus fashion industry