Siren Phoenix Osceola: An Interview With A Plus-Size Model
Siren Phoenix Osceola is a professional plus-size model based in Pennsylvania. She’s auditioned for America’s Next Top Model and been voted the 2013 Plus Model of the Year by the New York Fashion Association. Siren has already accomplished so much, but shows no sign of slowing down. Enjoy our interview with her and the breathtaking pictures ahead (she’s even wearing a ‘fat-kini’)! Tell us about yourself! My background and experience is in art, business, finance, and retail. When I’m not working I relax with my family, catch up on my…
Photographer’s Provocative Series Challenges What “Attractive” Means To Viewers
What makes someone “attractive?” As we become more and more saturated with media-propagated imagery, people are starting to push back and question why there is only one standard of beauty. One artist, Gracie Hagen, has created an amazing project addressing the root of “attractive”. In an effort to explore the unrealistic images in the media in comparison to the reality of real human flesh, Gracie has produced a photo series called “Illusions of the Body.” For the project, Gracie recruited women and a few men of varying shapes and sizes and photographed them…
Rick Owens’ Spring 2014 show says “Fuck You” to conventional beauty
Rick Owens had something to say to the Paris runway, and to the fashion world as a whole it seemed. That message was, “Fuck you.” You could tell something was different immediately in his Spring 2014 presentation on the Paris runway. There were drumbeats and actual energy being emitted from the models, who were pounding their chests and wearing fierce expressions on their faces. Rick turned the runway, which has been reserved for strutting only, into a performance platform as his models broke into a powerful and aggressive dance while…
Real men take on underwear ads
You have no idea how happy I was to see this! There have (thankfully) been tons of body image projects for women – and more are surfacing every day – but we’ve been seriously lacking initiatives that portray the bodies of everyday males. The Sun did us all a favor and took overly-sexualized, overly-dramatized, overly-everything underwear ads for men and put everyday anonymous men in those same scenarios. To be honest, I think they look great and I would love to see more diversity in male models! I hope we…
Debenhams uses a variety of models in its newest Lookbook and the results are amazing
If you know your way around fashion, you’re familiar with the term “Lookbook.” Companies use lookbooks to showcase specific designs or a store’s upcoming seasonal lines. Usually, they’re filled with slim, caucasian models that have been used on runways and the majority of the fashion industry for ages. But Debenhams, a popular U.K.-based store, wants to be known for its enthusiasm for diversity as it is for its fashion-forward clothes. In Debenhams’ recently released High Summer Lookbook, the company made the choice to use models that accurately reflected the diverse population…
