NYPost.com recently reported that Miuccia Prada declined designing costumes for the extras in the Metropolitan Opera's upcoming production "Attila." She apparently found their real life figures too challenging and requested models instead.
How is it that a designer of this stature cannot come up with something for non-models? Surely she must be joking. It is not a challenge to make a beautiful, tall, slender woman look beautiful. We've all seen them in their ripped jeans and baggy tees...looking beautiful...not hard.
The challenge is to make amply proportioned women or simply a size 14- 16 (a fairly large majority of women in the world I imagine) look beautiful.
I'm sure we don't know the whole story but this tale does drive home the fact that the reason most fashions look beautiful in magazines is because the models themselves physically are.
Dear readers, who have you found stepping up to the challenge and designing well for real women?
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