Vogue Australia Features First Plus Sized Model

The August issue of Vogue Australia features a, wait for it, PLUS SIZED MODEL.

I might as well have said that the cover features a cat playing a piano because that’s as out of character for the fashion mag as placing a plus sized model on it’s cover.

The model, Robyn Lawley, is the first plus-sized girl ever to be featured on Vogue Australia. (She once covered Vogue Italia).

Plus sized models are not so much “plus-sized” as they are actually just pretty women with normal sized hips, actual boobs and not-starving-child arms and bobble knees.

The Vogue issue is called “Curve” and editor in chief Kirstie Clements says “this is the first time Vogue Australia has shot a larger model and of course now that we have done it, I ask myself why we didn’t do it sooner.”

“When a plus size model first turns up to the studio, she may be an anomaly to a team normally used to working with size 6’s…She doesn’t actually look plus size to me at all now.”

She also ads, “And men like curves don’t they?”

Also, plus sized models generally look like real women (Lawley’s a size 10), whereas “normal” models (what are the skinny ones called? Is that politically correct to say?) usually look like David Bowie with less make-up.

The Vogue spread features a glamorous Lawley in an old-school Hollywood, pin-up type look