If you haven’t heard about the latest news in size discrimination…just Google Ambercrombie & Fitch CEO and “cool kids”.
I guess the PR department thought it would be a good idea to say that AF is exclusive and only for the thinest and coolest kids.
They only hire hot kids to work the stores and they burn their returned clothes instead of donating them.
Anyway, the response has been amazing! From Kirstie Alley bitching them out to people mailing back their AF clothes with a letter saying they’ll boycott the line to this guy handing out AF apparel to the homeless. I LOVE this campaign! Everyone should do it…take the AF out of their closets and give it to the less fortunate. I don’t expect Abercrombie & Fitch to be all inclusive. If they don’t want to service bodies over a size 10, that’s fine with me. My feeling is if you only offer certain sizes, just spin it in a positive way. It’s the negative effects created by this disgusting and sloppy PR scandal that disturbs me. you may not carry a size 12, but you don’t need to fuel a thinspo epidemic.
Side thought: I hope they don’t pass a law obligating companies to include all customers…could you imagine??? In almost all cases I prefer creative activism to passing laws.
How do you feel about this?
What are some of your favorite responses to this issue?
In the Netherlands a crap Gym called Fitness First thought it would be a good idea to turn a bus stop bench into a scale and publicize the weight of unsuspecting patrons. I guess they thought this would somehow inspire healthy hopefuls to sign up for their shitty ass gym. How do YOU feel about this? Would YOU join?
A feminist electroclash LADY band with a plus size lead singer writing tribute songs to lesbians and powerful women of all shapes and sizes…I’d say my band is pretty fucking awesome.
Our new music video is about LOVE and family portraiture! What better way to level the playing field than expressing every kind of love possible in front of the unbias camera…no one can tell you not to take a picture with the one you LOVE!!!
just in case you missed the link below…here is the REMIX!
I contacted the author and requested he enable embedding…
so here you go…thank me now…kiss me later!
I’ve never been a fan of reality TV singing competitions. They’re so grossly calculated and fake, only casting “types” they know will pull the audience in and up their ratings. I prefer scrappy tales of the under dog triumphant. Like Susan Boyle and now Casey Withoos. GO CASEY!!! of course I give a lot of credit to Regina Spektor for writing a song that tugs at the heart strings…also Domino Dollhouse for dressing her up.
I’m not ignoring the fact that fat is a hot topic and that the pulling the fat card is also a calculated move by producers these days…but I’m still touched.
Lets talk business, about filling a gap in the market, about Domino Dolhouse dresses hanging neatly in the closets of fat betties with pink hair and cat eyeliner who used to shop at Torrid before Torrid went the way of Trendy Fashionista (god i hate the word fashionista). I just love it when I hear tough chicks lamenting the days of early Torrid then in the same breath saying “thank GOD for Domino Dollhouse”.
Sure, Tracy Broxterman‘s timing is spot on, catering to the girls that madeTorrid and Hot Topic one of the fastest growing fashion retailers of the first decade of the new millenium, but it’s her sincerity that makes the line special. Mixing vintage, pin up, a dash of goth and a dollop of chola, Domino Dollhouse is one of the few true fashion experiences for plus size betties, giving them a chance to wear a designer’s point of view rather than a homogenized shopping mall brand loyal only to what’s selling at the moment. I hope all you plus-size designer hopefuls out there take a cue from Domino Dollhouse and make what you love. Not just what a trending report tells you to make.
With that said, I found this super cute dress at Torrid and I gotta say “KUDOS, TORRID!” you must have read a trending report or two cuz this
GEOMETRIC -TRIBAL pattern is both WHIMSICAL and BOLD!
If you don’t already know, Carmakoma is a euro-modern basic-black plus-size clothing line for the punk rock at heart. I’ve been a fan for years, but have always been a little bit too big to buy from them (that and they’re price point is $100-200, but I’d gladly pay that for well constructed detail oriented forward thinking designs).
In all their wisdom, they use two models every season, one at a size 14 to show the low end sizing and an 18 to show the high end. I’ve been suggesting they use Fluvia Lacerda to model their line via twitter and facebook…looks like they finally got the hint. Check out this dope image video they made…looks like video killed the photograph star…is this the MTV revolution of the lookbook? The only thing missing from this is Fluvia breaking out into song. Yeah, I’m totally jealous. If I looked like her, I’d have a Grammy by now.
I know some of you think fat girls just sit around eating marshmallows and crying on a Friday night, so let me
paint you a picture of my weekend when plus media mogul, Jessica Kane (Skorch Magazine and Life & Style of Jessica Kane), blows into town.
Friday Night: Dinner and Rockband at Tracy Broxterman’s (owner of Domino Dollhouse)
If I had a dollor for every boy that never loved me cuz I was too fat; for every Grammy I never won cuz fat girls don’t sell albums; for every time I blamed fat for why my life didn’t go the way I planned. They should have called it “Mostly Likely To Succeed….As Long As You Don’t Get Fat”
But in Mauritania I’d be the prize pig. The girls there attend Leblouh, a fattening ritual, to beef ‘em up and get ‘em ready for marriage. You see, in Mauritania, a fat wife is a status symbol, touting the husband’s wealth and ability to feed her well (what? men using women as eye candy to puff up their ego?). The fatter the hopeful bride, the more valuable she is…stretch marks are bonus. The divorce rate is 40% (unrelated fun fact) and only ads to the allure, men will date women 3 or 4 times divorced. Smaller girls envy bigger the girls so hard, they take fattening-up pills that have dangerous side effects. Is this Bizzaro Hollywood or what?
I thought America had the market cornered on shaming girls into hurting their bodies and making themselves sick in the great competition for love (and by love I mean objectification and judgment). Fat or skinny, the fear of being yourself runs rampant no matter what body type your culture covets.
Side note: If you’re looking for piping hot current news, this is not the blog for you. lovenati isn’t about the latest breaking news, since this story was published by Marie Claire last year. Rather, lovenati is about my journey, my revelations, my take on the not-so-new-news and how it’s relevant to my life in the form of diary-esque soliloquies …
