A half-baked attempt at fashion week

Something unthinkable has happened at London Fashion week. No, they haven't brought back paisley; designer Mark Fast employed a handful of "plus sized" models from agency 12+ to walk his designs alongside "normal" models.
Plus sized and normal are both in quotation marks because they are euphemisms. Size 10 (US size 6) and over is classed as plus size in fashion terms.

I was delighted at first: great, maybe this will be the start of something, I bet they look fabulous, I bet Crystal Renn is doing it... oh wait...is that lycra? And beige lyrca at that..? Things got pretty ugly the further down I scrolled.



Sigh. It seems Mark Fast does not actually care about normal sized women, because if he did he certainly wouldn't put them in beige lycra. It also seem that he has not bothered to make clothes that are actually their size - he has stuffed them into dresses two sizes too small for them. Apparently Mark Fast only cares about what will get him in the papers; needless to say, it is the plus sized models and not his clothes, which, by the way, you can see are horrible.



These women have been put in clothes that purposefully accentuate their wobbly bits, which kind of defeats the object. But don't hate the player, hate the game.

It would have been lovely if he had put Crystal or blondie in this design:


...but it seems he is saving the actual fashion for the actual models.