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The fashion industry is nothing more than a pompous, elitest group of snobs who dictate what we all should look like, and in doing so, how we should feel if we cannot attain these impossble goals. I submit that the top fashion designers and their magazine friends are nothing more than frauds.

True designers with talent allow for curves for various shapes and sizes in a woman. They allow for the absolute diversity that defines each and every one of us. Their minds eye views styles and lines and colors and patterns that compliment every one of us to some degree. The posers, however, such as DKNY, Versace, and others would have you develop an eating disorder to render yourself mere skin and bones to have the (alleged) priviledge of paying for their overpriced and so-called fashions.

If these posers had any true sense of fashion or design, don't you think they would be creating beautiful clothes for someone other than a size zero or a size two? It is my supposition that these wishful thinkers have no talent for drawing other than using a ruler and a pencil. If you examine the lines on most apparel put forth by these designers in high power, you realize that they have no eye for curves. Their designs might as well fit the stick figures we used to draw in kindergarten.

What they refer to as chic and "in style" is really just a cheap cover for an inability to come up with designs that accentuate curves and flatter different body shapes. I am not talking just about large women, I am referring to all women, those who are above that mythical size zero or two.

When will there be a designer who shuns the waif look and says "I am not afraid to create something fabulous for real women!" There are more real women then there are underfed models. This is something the fashion industry as a whole needs to open its eyes to, and not just pretend that everything is peachy.

When will the fashion magazines stop bowing to the elite club of posers and accept that not all women are created in stick figure fashion? Are they so insecure about their own looks, or even worse, deceived about them, that they feel they must clutch onto age old standards that no longer apply? The day and age of Twiggy is far gone, yet the fashion magazines refuse to let that image go. Why not cater to a wide variety of women? Have all types of women's shapes and curves flow over the pages, creating a vast rainbow of colors and imagery. That will be a magazine that flies off the shelves quicker than chocolate truffles.

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