DCG posted: " ELLE Magazine: Myla Dalbesio explodes with laughter on the
other end of the phone. “It’s crazy!” she exclaims. “I can’t even.” The
27-year-old model is talking about booking her latest gig, modeling Calvin
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ELLE Magazine
<http://www.elle.com/news/fashion-style/myla-dalbesio-calvin-klein-plus-size?click=main_sr>:
Myla Dalbesio explodes with laughter on the other end of the phone. “It’s
crazy!” she exclaims. “I can’t even.” The 27-year-old model is talking
about booking her latest gig, modeling Calvin Klein
<http://www.elle.com/fashion/designers/calvin-klein/> underwear in the
brand’s latest "Perfectly Fit" campaign, which was shot by Lachlan Bailey.
“It was such a surreal moment. I cried,” she admitted.
Booking an underwear campaign for such an iconic brand would be a coup for
any model. But it’s especially notable for Dalbesio, *who's what the
fashion industry would—still, surprisingly—call “plus size.”* (At a size
10, she’s bigger than Lara Stone, Jourdan Dunn, and Ji Hye Park, the other
models featured in the campaign.)
“It’s kind of confusing because I’m a bigger girl,” Dalbesio says. “I’m not
the biggest girl on the market but I’m definitely bigger than all the girls
[Calvin Klein] has ever worked with, *so that is really intimidating*.” She
wasn’t sure, she said of the shoot, what was expected from her “in terms of
her size or shape.” Refreshingly, what was expected of her was the same
thing that was expected of Lara Stone: to take a beautiful picture. “No one
even batted an eye,” she says. “It was very cool.”
So what does it mean for a brand like Calvin Klein—known for launching the
careers of such svelte models as Brooke Shields and Kate Moss—*to cast a
model who deviates from the size 0 standard and not make a fuss about it*?
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To Dalbesio, who spent years abusing Adderall
<http://stylelikeu.com/themes-2/body-image/myla-dalbesio/>, crash dieting,
and flirting with bulimia
<http://fashionista.com/2012/01/meet-ford-model-and-performance-artist-myla-dalbesio-is-she-the-next-crystal-renn>
in an attempt to whittle herself to “straight size,” it represents
progress. “It’s not like [Calvin Klein] released this campaign and were
like ‘Whoa, look, there’s this plus size girl in our campaign.’ They
released me in this campaign with everyone else; there’s no distinction.
It’s not a separate section for plus size girls,” she says.
Read the rest here
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So much for the right-wing war on women - seems that the liberal elitists
in the fashion industry have their own war against women.
DCG
*DCG <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/>* | November 10,
2014 at 3:45 am | Tags: War on Women
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