@Run, Really?! Whoa....(Again, sorry if that was rude)
@Sam, its not just that. Her body proportions are very strange.
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As for the "Fat" nickname, I just thought it was funny because it completely contradicts itself, but works at the same time.
^Same here. I was a bit new to this stuff a while ago too. Trust me, Sam's, you sound just like I did a little while before I came on All-ANTM. You might just wake up one morning and realize you've stopped liking Whitney, or you'll eventually understand HF better. Whether your opinion on it will change or not, that depends on you.
There are several reasons why whitney isn't doing high fashion jobs.
1)Plus-sized models like her will most likely never get jobs like that. Especially since she isn't really plus-sized.
2)Her face doesn't have the structure of a high-fashion model. Hold her picture up next to Gemma Ward, Raquel Zimmerman, Gisele Bundchen, or Coca Rocha, and (to anyone who isn't exposed to ANTM) would not be inspired or intrigued. Hold it up to commercial/glamour models, and she fits in fine.
3)Her proportions are off. She is pear-shaped. Despite how much YOU may like it, it will not accomodate all clothes.
4)Runway shows and photoshoots have SAMPLE SIZES, 2 and 4. If a plus-sized model comes onto set, there may be a chance that there are clothes for her, but the variations in plus-sized models aren't exactly the same all the time. Thusly, they can't walk or shoot the ad, because the client doesn't make dresses for 16 different body types. And he SHOULDN'T have to.
5)It's simply not her market. Elite is her agency. They see whitney. They know from test shots that she does what she can and can't do. whitney is good with selling sex and commercial products. Therefore, she is set up for test shoots and jobs for this market. You DON'T put commercial girls to sell to high-fashion clients. It makes you look dumb as an agent. Or are we going to start assuming we know more than her agent?
Dave maybe the designer should stop being so lazy. Why sell a size 10 women a dress advertised by a size 2 woman, or a size 16 woman a dress by a size 110 person. You sound like those ridicoulous fashion a wholes who feel size 2 is the only way because they can not handle real women. Pluse size models period are barely getting any jobs like that so quit hating on Whit.
@sam'sboyfriend: It's not so much about being lazy. I don't think it's that easy to design and make a dress, let alone customize it. Plus size is not universal because they come in many shapes while size 2 is more like the standard because it fits many models. As a designer (as with any other profession I guess), you wouldn't want to make your job harder than it already is.
No, that's not what I'm saying, but when you have a runway show, it's easier to just do some castings for standard sized models to feature your clothing line. I'm just talking about the convenience of work for the designer by making standard clothes sizes instead of customized. For the Runway.
There are many more reasons why there aren't more plussies in couture. One of them being the expensive fabrics designers have to buy and use. A designer could by less fabric for a size 2 rather than having to buy more fabric for a size 12.
Very true. Models, especially runway models, are meant to be clothes hangers. Not every girl is meant to be a model-- whether it's a body issue or a motivation issue. To be honest, I never TOTALLY understood Whitney's whole "I'm big and beautiful!" vendetta because the models that are size 0s are not really a standard of beauty. The only models that I think have mainstream aspirational beauty are the Victoria's Secret girls and the sort of old school supermodels.
@Sam, its not just that. Her body proportions are very strange.
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As for the "Fat" nickname, I just thought it was funny because it completely contradicts itself, but works at the same time.
j/k, j/k lol
1)Plus-sized models like her will most likely never get jobs like that. Especially since she isn't really plus-sized.
2)Her face doesn't have the structure of a high-fashion model. Hold her picture up next to Gemma Ward, Raquel Zimmerman, Gisele Bundchen, or Coca Rocha, and (to anyone who isn't exposed to ANTM) would not be inspired or intrigued. Hold it up to commercial/glamour models, and she fits in fine.
3)Her proportions are off. She is pear-shaped. Despite how much YOU may like it, it will not accomodate all clothes.
4)Runway shows and photoshoots have SAMPLE SIZES, 2 and 4. If a plus-sized model comes onto set, there may be a chance that there are clothes for her, but the variations in plus-sized models aren't exactly the same all the time. Thusly, they can't walk or shoot the ad, because the client doesn't make dresses for 16 different body types. And he SHOULDN'T have to.
5)It's simply not her market. Elite is her agency. They see whitney. They know from test shots that she does what she can and can't do. whitney is good with selling sex and commercial products. Therefore, she is set up for test shoots and jobs for this market. You DON'T put commercial girls to sell to high-fashion clients. It makes you look dumb as an agent. Or are we going to start assuming we know more than her agent?