FASHION WEEK FOOLERY!!!

It wouldn't be London Fashion Week without a bit of controversy, back- stabbing and bitching and with a subject that is always at the end of the fashion elites lips, it didn't take long.

For me the Skinny Vs Curvy debate is becoming tiresome, it's something we all have an opinion on but i'm bored because all the protest of designers' using plumper models, seems to lie on deaf ears.

Gok Wan has campaigned tediously with his 'Miss Naked Beauty' show on Channel 4, Louise Rednapp challenged herself to lose riduclous amounts of weight for 'The truth about size zero,' and Natalie Cassidy has been open and honest about her obsession with losing weight, saying ''If I had a big meal in the evening or something I would take laxatives before going to bed. Which is very dangerous and wrong. I'm happier now.'

I think that some people in the fashion industry just aren't open to the effects that these dangerously skinny models are having on young girls. Aswell as it affecting our teenagers, it must be terribly hard on the models themselves as we've heard the stories of models starving themselves to become more successful; with this leading to deaths in the worst cases.

I'm pro- curves on the catwalk but I have to be honest and admit that the plus sizes models used in MARK FAST's 2009 collection made me look twice. They are afterall, very beautiful women but at risk of sounding nasty, i can spot their slight love handles ( as i suffer the same thing.) If you compare them to the other two slimmer models, you're going to compare aren't you? The skinnier models have cleaner sillouettes, but to me, the two skinnier models are borderline skinny, they don't look unhealthy, just very slim.

I commend MARK FAST on using plus size models and i blame the people using models with BMI's of under 18.5 for making myself and other's overly critical of our own body.

The gorgeous model- Crystal Renn, has embraced being a larger model (size 16) and explains that she "represents natural, happy women."

As MIKA would sing... BIG GIRLS YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!

lots of love, THE DIVA. x x x