How do you define the term plus-size in a professional context?
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I spoke to Bella’s director Chelsea Bonner on how to become a plus-size model, and the onus placed on fellow agencies to reject the size-standards and look harder at the talent in front of them.Ĭhelsea walks us down a different runway route, detailing what it takes for aspiring plus-size models to cut their teeth in the industry in 2021, and why beauty is no longer (and never really was) synonymous with size homogeneity. The likes of Ali Tate and Savage The Girl fall into its refreshing selection of models that take to social media with different sized bodies. While the sample size still remains a size eight in the Australian PR and media worlds, aspiring plus-size models are being more widely embraced by fashion labels looking for a kind of pretty that deals more with distinction, confidence and the idiosyncrasies of facial features, rather than a waistline measurement.īella Management is a boutique modelling agency spanning across Sydney and Melbourne, casting a miscellaneous mix of talent.
While these magazines have often got it wrong in the past, we’re all noticing the burgeoning size fluidity in the fashion marketing world, from local slow-fashion brands vying for relevancy, to the big legacy labels reconsidering what really defines ‘beauty’ in a brave, new world.Īustralian micro-influencers like Sophia Brenn inscribe their Instagram bios with honest declarations like “croissant enthusiast, curve model”, and that seems substantially more interesting, relatable and lightly comic than a size eight cis model starving herself to sign new jobs or fit a certain mould. We dote over ‘real’ girls on Instagram and admire inclusive movement via local wellness studios doing things differently, but the Powers That Be in the casting agency chairs ultimately dictate who graces the cover of a billboard or stares back at us from the pages of a magazine. Looking for some similarly thought-provoking reads? Subscribe here and we’ll send them straight to your inbox. What about energy, history, culture, drive and features that make someone totally unique? And we’re all bored of the same, tired beauty ideals – after all, there is so much more to beauty than a size tag. So, when attractiveness is so hyper-relative, what does it take to become a model? And if someone is considered ‘plus-size’, how much harder is it for them to land the job than the ‘standard size’ candidate standing next to them?Īs Her Majesty Tyra Banks once said, “perfect is boring, human is beautiful”. It’s 2021 and it seems the reader, viewer, scroller or creator is the most important arbiter of what makes someone beautiful. What it takes to make it and how to get noticed.
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