Photo: facebook / MaxeyGreene
- Chubby women
- The biggest compliment of a designer
- Be yourself
- The German Average Woman a Plus Size Model?
- Fashion lines for chubby women
- The heavy fight in the fashion world
Chubby women
Kate Moss, Cara Delevigne, Naomi Campbell - they've all been to New York Fashion Week before. All have arrived in the fashion Olympus of high fashion. The former also applies to Maxey Greene. The latter not yet. Maxey Greene is not known to most. So far unknown in the fashion scene. A wallflower. The Plus Size Model is anything but inconspicuous.
She weighs as much as two thin models together. She has breasts, buttocks and waist - right curves. The beauty ideal of the 50s. Today, 60 years later, things are different. Curves à la Marylin Monroe seem to disappear.
The biggest compliment of a designer
The story of Greens reads like that of a thin model. At the age of 17, she participates in a competition for oversized models and wins . This is followed by orders for smaller magazines. Now she lands her biggest coup. Maxey Greene is part of the first fashion show for chubby models. The extraordinary: she is allowed to open it. An honor that otherwise only very well-known models deserve. And this at New York Fashion Week, the most important and most respected event of its kind worldwide.
Be yourself
For a long time the young woman suffered under her strong figure. Even as a child, she weighed more than anyone else. In teenage age no change. At several acceptance attempts, it failed. The result: Bad mood and mental stress. Today she takes herself as she is. She loves her looks. And the food. Unlike her scrawny colleagues, she does not have to think about every little calorie. A big advantage. She loves to enjoy life together with her friends.
The German Average Woman a Plus Size Model?
Maxey Greene does not have the slender body of a model. Therefore she does not have a bulky figure. Even those wearing a size 40 dress can be sporty and crunchy. She is the proof. What few people know: A plus size model wears size 38/40. The German Average Woman 44 . Does that mean that the majority of women now have to go shopping in the department for chubby women? The beauty ideal 90-60-90 is long outdated.
Fashion lines for chubby women
For a short time it seemed as if the fashion industry had reacted to the development. H & M and C & A have been selling fashion in large sizes for a while now, and Mango moved on with 'Violeta' this year . Now the big designers too. Nevertheless, XL fashion is not presented by XL women. The models who wear the fashion for curvy women are anything but curvy. Partly they are below the German average.
The heavy fight in the fashion world
The eye has to get used to the sight of chubby women, it must be sensitized for curves, they say. A questionable statement. More importantly, the consumer says goodbye to the slender woman's ideal. It is more than controversial that we consider underweight models as normal and normal weight women as fat.
Maxey Greene - a door opener for the otherwise so simple fashion world? One thing is clear: something has to change. Not because some self-proclaimed fashion pope wants that, but because it demands social development. The fashion world must finally realize that even chubby women love fashion . And look good in it. Actually very good.
