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    GELLA - LLAPKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:20pm

    but rather a size 8 or 10,

    this is exactly a size of a giant woman

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      Desperate for a Shag GilesGELLA - LLAP
      6/29/16 5:22pm

      I love that no designers stepped in because she’s not a sample size but no- oh no - it’s not because of a size bias. Do they hear themselves?

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      junwelloGELLA - LLAP
      6/29/16 5:29pm

      So HUGE! I mean, is there enough fabric in the WORLD? No. There isn’t.

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    SheeshTheseNamesKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:14pm

    She’s not only a giant, she has the nerve to be a Black giant. A Black giant who isn’t even a model and isn’t even light-skinned. Just who does she think she is, expecting to wear dressy clothing and have a few designers respond favorably to the idea of dressing her!

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      chienfouSheeshTheseNames
      6/29/16 5:33pm

      Sadly there’s probably a lot of truth to that. Although they’re not coming out and saying it directly, I would bet large chunks of money that they feel that as a tall, buxom, black woman, she’s not going to be the next Lupita Nyong’o, and won’t be that bankable, so why bother investing time and money in dressing her? Oh how I wish she would become the biggest star on the planet and never wear a dress from them ever (except for Siriano.)

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      SheeshTheseNameschienfou
      6/29/16 5:36pm

      Exactly.

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    Ladyheatherlee 2016 EditionKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:25pm

    This is all bullshit and I’m glad she will get a dress and I love her and everything about her.

    And I also want to add that the other day my 7 year old daughter was watching Ghostbusters and an ad came on for the new one and her eyes lit up and she’s all “It’s Ghostbusters, but with girls! That is SO COOL.” So somebody is a fan already.

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      BeeaybaysLadyheatherlee 2016 Edition
      6/29/16 5:33pm

      That’s only because your daughter is too young to know that by loving Ghostbusters with girls, she is ruining some nerd’s childhood.

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      JenecitaLadyheatherlee 2016 Edition
      6/29/16 5:37pm

      Sadly, my son is less than thrilled. Until just a few months ago, he watched Frozen as well as Cars and played with My Little Pony and dinosaur toys. Now the societal conditioning is sinking in and everything that is for girls is seen as somehow less than. No matter how many times I tell him that Ghostbusters with girls is just as good as Ghostbusters with boys (I’m hoping it’s better, of course) and there is nothing wrong with toys and movies with girl characters. He hasn’t even turned 6 yet.

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    Snacky_OnassisKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:13pm

    “This is nobody’s fault except Leslie’s,” Paster says. “She should have known four to five months ago the date of premiere, and said, ‘I’m not a sample size, I need to go to designers early or buy myself a dress.’

    Do we know that she didn’t?

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      washionforeSnacky_Onassis
      6/29/16 5:21pm

      I know one company she reached out to - for the press tour, not for the red carpet - and that was only a month ago. Her stylist situation is also weird which made things difficult.

      Edited to add: Leslie Jones is awesome and the company in question most definitely wanted to dress her.

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      VIRTUAL BRITwashionfore
      6/29/16 5:32pm

      continue...

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    The Noble RenardKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:13pm

    My humble suggestion is that celebrities should wear fashion designers on the Red Carpet.

    Literally.

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      DrWhoSoccerStarThe Noble Renard
      6/29/16 5:17pm

      Don’t let Bjork and Lady Gaga hear you.

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      MaryTylerMoore'sHairFlipThe Noble Renard
      6/29/16 5:17pm

      They don’t even have to be breathing.

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    jifaner13Kara Brown
    6/29/16 5:24pm

    It’s bitterly amusing that they are using the fact that they make clothes for only one body type as their defense.

    GIF


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      Anne-Onomousjifaner13
      6/29/16 5:49pm

      To me it just makes it all the more obvious that their actual, unavoidable issue was racism.

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      goddessoftransitoryjifaner13
      6/29/16 11:20pm

      “But we only like skinny white people! Gawd, it’s like explaining to a herd of cows.”

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    lisaroweKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:16pm

    bless christian siriano. he seems to always be there for the celebrities who get fucked off by the fashion industry.

    love her “fuck you” attitude.

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationlisarowe
      6/29/16 5:30pm

      She is amazing. Also, I need her to team up with HBO a release a "Game of Jones" commentary track for every single episode, because that was the best thing I have ever seen. I love that she has thought about having sex with Jon Snow enough to figure they would have to do it on the floor, so as not to ruin her good sheets with how bloody and dirty he always is.

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      saralegal21lisarowe
      6/29/16 5:33pm

      And for non-celebs. His collection for Lane Bryant was really cute. Out of my budget (and of course mostly sold out before going to the sale racks) but I would have worn a lot of it.

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    jlucas8Kara Brown
    6/29/16 5:23pm

    Ok, we’ve all seen Project Runway. These assholes cannot come close to convincing me it costs thousands of dollars to make most dresses. Maybe with labor hours on a fully beaded, fully hand-sewn dress. MAYBE. They might sell it for $10,000 because they can, but even for this “thoughtless giant” the amount of materials they need would not be that much. And they don’t need 4 months. Like all the skinny white women in Hollywood are wearing shit they just had lying around. Fuck them.

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      jifaner13jlucas8
      6/29/16 5:28pm

      Eh, I wouldn’t base the work that goes into designer dresses on PR. Those dresses look like shit up close and underneath, and generally fall apart later. They are held together sometimes with literal tape and prayer.

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      Jettgirl24jlucas8
      6/29/16 5:32pm

      THIS. I said it elsewhere (down in the greys) but I refuse to believe that any of the outfits you see on the red carpet consist of $10k in materials.

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    LostInSpaceCampKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:11pm

    Aren’t...aren’t they making her argument for her?

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      kshortie16LostInSpaceCamp
      6/29/16 5:28pm

      Oh, good. It wasn’t just me.

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    apersCapersKara Brown
    6/29/16 5:33pm

    This reminds me of the “real women” episodes of Project Runway that always led to the designers acting like monsters and a model (usually a friend or family member of another contestant) crying. I mean, you really must lack in skill and creativity if it is beyond your ability to create a dress for someone above a size 2. Plus, this is always the excuse for having minimal body diversity for models. Designers, if the reason clothes can't exist for people above a size 2 is because the sample size you've created is a size 2, you are the problem.

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      CousinPamapersCapers
      6/29/16 8:42pm

      Ha - took the words out of my mouth. I said the same thing upthread just now!

      I remember one episode where a designer was really just outright cruel to the real person model, basically calling her fat to her face, repeatedly. The woman who had signed her friend up to be on the show read him for filth on the runway, saying that she had really wanted this to be a treat for her friend but the designer was so awful to her. The guy ended up getting cut, I think, but he still basically blamed the model for it because she’s not a model. He was the worst.

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      EllaMinnowPeeapersCapers
      6/30/16 8:22am

      I mean, I get that factoring in hips might make it harder to design a dress than just fitting it onto someone with straight lines, but if you’re going to design dresses it feels like that’s something you ought to learn to deal with. Saying that you’re only going to make a size 2 strikes me as saying that you don’t want to want to exert any effort.

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