Petite Fashion Challenge #14 is: Holiday Emergency – Style your travel outfit into a special evening look using whatever you carry in your purse and anything else immediately at hand, hosted by Couture Coco. If I check in luggage, I either pack a carry-on with two changes of clothing plus emergency underwear and cosmetics, just […]
Project Runway Canada winner Sunny Fong is known for using a wider range of sizes for his line, VAWK, but once again, he is ignoring the shorter woman in his casting call for his upcoming Toronto Fashion Week show. While the call does allow for non-runway height women (5’6″ and above, without heels), I cannot […]
In 2007, I created a video at Shorty Stories asking the fashion industry, specially media to feature more designers who are specialty sized. Five years later, very little has changed, so I’m re-issuing the challenge, with some additions, now that both sites have had much more public exposure and social media is more mainstream: New […]
Screen handle: Oui, Petite (Twitter: @tangluu) Website: ouipetite.blogspot.com Where are you based? Greater Toronto Area Why did you start your site? I had really wanted to start blogging for the longest time, but never really knew what to blog about. And when this blog name came to mind it felt really perfect and at that […]
Screen handle: Toronto Beauty Reviews (TOBeautyReviews) Website: www.torontobeautyreviews.com Where are you based? Toronto Why did you start your site? I first started a petite style site to get advice from other petites. I then started a beauty reviews site to help my (Avon) customers and to share my love of all things beauty. I decided […]
When Vogue Italia put three larger-than-normal models on its recent cover, both major media and bloggers were all over it (including this site), discussing whether Vogue did the right thing. Many complained about the fact that the models were wearing lingerie and not, say, evening gowns or casual wear. Many times, the excuse is that […]
People seem to be very positive about Vogue Italia‘s choice of celebrating curvier women with three non-standard sized models on their latest cover. While this is certainly a good thing, I feel that it is more of a gimmick. Vogue will go right back to using tall, impossibly thin girls (yes, they’re girls, not women) […]
Cynthia Cheng Mintz (Shows L-R: Jules Power, Marthe Aime, Baby Steinberg, Amanda Lew Kee) Another LG Fashion Week has wrapped up and this season, as usual, has had its hits and misses. The venue, Heritage Court on the Exhibiton grounds was not too different from the previous season’s at the Allstream Centre in the […]
Last week was New York Fashion Week. While most shows featured tall, slim and young professional models, Ann Taylor chose to use its employees. Though, for the most part, the women featured were quite slim, it was more realistic – none of the ladies looked like they have been starving for days. In addition, the women […]
