Skinny VS Curvy

Wowza!

Victoria’s Secret beauty Doutzen Kroes looks absolutely amazing in these shots… and she’s not even wearing hotness-enhancers aka sexy lacey lingerie, just plain undergarments. Toned, healthy, defined, bootylicious, slim, curvy… this girl’s got them all!

Even though she’s got an amazingly fit, stunning figure, Doutzen is “too big” for the runway – here’s what she says about it:

“I don’t do runway shows because I don’t fit the sample size. I might have fit when I was 11 or 12.When you are so young and you get the pressure to lose weight, you’ll do it because you’re too young to make up your mind, to make the right decision. That’s why we have to change the age.”

Much more pictures (7, to be exact) after the jump!

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Remember THIS STORY?

The same designer that was abandoned by some of his team for using bigger models last year is back – this time, Mark Fast used a bunch of (some call them “plus-size”, some call them “real-size”) non-skinny models during his show at 2010 London Fashion Week, who walked the runway together with the skinny, typical models.

As his representatives said before, the idea behind this initiative is to show that…

“We wanted women to know they didn’t have to be a size zero to wear a Mark Fast dress – curvier women can look even better in them.”

Hmm… I don’t really get their message when looking at these pictures. Facts are, these extra tight and stretchy, knitwear dresses in nude tones aren’t extremely flattering on these size 12 models. Even more, it looks like the dresses are a bit too tight (on the arms, bust) and the underwear / stockings they wear underneath are not the best choices either.

I bet that these size 12 girls could have looked really great in dresses with more structure or in any classic silhouette designs.

What are your thoughts?

See more shots from this fashion show after the jump!

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Candice Swanepoel is back in lingerie… and bikinis, so YAY!

As always, this Victoria’s Secret hottie looks super good.

Soooo much more after the jump!

And while you’re admiring Candice and window-shopping at the same time, which one is your favorite “minimalist” look?

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Long-time-no-see Victoria’s Secret model and new mom Karolina Kurkova was spotted today in New York City – and she looked fresh faced, with 0 make-up.

See one more after the jump!

P.S.: She is 25 and she gave birth in October 2009.

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Another perfectly lean model says that she’s having trouble finding jobs, now that she is a size 4 (models sizes 0-2 are OK, and so are the ones over 12, just, for some inexplicable reason I will never understand, sizes 4-10 are not OK). Details from The New York times:

“I’m not in demand for the shows anymore,” said the model, who has worked for Marc Jacobs, Prada, Chanel, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Louis Vuitton, among many others.

“I’ve been told to lose weight when I was really skinny,” said Ms. Rocha, who recently added a new line item to her résumé: correspondent for Modelinia.com, the Web site for the model-obsessed.

“You know what, I’ve stopped caring,” Ms. Rocha said. “If I want a hamburger, I’m going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size.”

“Girls are told they’re not skinny enough, or they hear, ‘She’s old, she’s boring, we’ve had her, she’s not tiny anymore,’ ” Ms. Rocha said. “A lot of people don’t take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.” And the latest crop of models is not made up of “adults or even sort-of adults,” she insisted. “They are children. Point closed.”

One more Coco after the jump!

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