Fashion

If you thought sexy bikinis were only forSports Illustratedmodels, take it up with plus-size fashion blogger Gabi Gregg and she’ll teach you a thing or two. The 25-year-old’s blogGabiFreshshot to fame last year with this post where Gabi, who wears a US size 18, showed stunning holiday snaps in her ‘fatkini’, inspiring full-figured women to […]

Nothing makes a girl feel so pretty as a pretty dress. The Australian designer, Leona Edmiston, knows this better than anyone – and proved it again at a special preview of her Spring Summer 2013 collection earlier this week. It was a Monday night – that was a surprise, and a delight. Everyone felt fresh; […]

Talia Joy Castellano was diagnosed with terminal cancer six years ago, but she hasn’t let her illness get in the way of her dream of becoming a fashion sensation. The thirteen-year-old US girl started posting make-up tutorials on YouTube following her leukaemia diagnosis on Valentine’s Day in 2007, and has since clocked up almost 40 […]

A graphic new anti-anorexia ad campaign has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social networks. The ‘Say no to anorexia’ images — created by Brazilian modelling agency Star Models — use Photoshop to stretch shockingly thin women to resemble life-size fashion illustrations. The digitally manipulated models appear next to a typical designer’s sketch […]

A Swedish modelling agency has been accused of staking out a treatment centre for eating disorders scouting for anorexic ‘talent’. Director of the Stockholm clinic Anna-Maria af Sandeberg said head hunters had approached ill patients, one wheelchair bound, hoping to recruit them. Kirstie Clements: Thin is in because designers demand it “They were outside the […]

Vogue has caused controversy again for publishing “blackface” pictures of a white model. This time it’s the Netherlands edition of the fashion bible that is in hot water after it ran an editorial featuring pale-skinned model Querelle Jansen with her face “blacked-up” and an afro wig on. The photographic spread — which was styled by […]

Beyonce Knowles is certainly one busy queen Bey! Her documentary Life is but a drem recently aired in the US and she is preparing for her world tour. But Beyonce always has time for fashion! Her latest shoot for H&M shows the singer looking super sexy in a bikini, but the singer doesn’t just model […]

A woman dropped by her modelling agency at size 10 for being ‘too big’ has launched her own agency to help ‘normal-sized’ women break into the fashion industry. The UK model, Saffi Karina, “failed” to maintain a figure consistent with the standards of a thin-obsessed fashion industry when “womanhood ensued” and she was told her […]

The Project host Carrie Bickmore has been named one of TV’s biggest style influences for Aussie women, inspiring the most clothing purchases. Carrie shares the title with Mornings host Sonia Kruger and the pair are closely followed by Melissa Doyle, Kylie Gillies and Lisa Wilkinson. Carrie’s wardrobe, which focuses on edgy prints, stand-out jewellery and […]

If you have ever wanted to walk in Carrie Bradshaw’s shoes, now’s your chance! Sarah Jessica Parker is placing three pairs of heels from her Sex and the City days up for auction, with all the proceeds going to New York’s LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and the Performing Arts. The 48-year-old actress, who […]