For two and a half years, Amanda Czerniawski was a sociologist
turned plus-size model. Journeying into a world where, as a size
10, she was not considered an average body type, but rather, for
the fashion industry, "plus-sized," Czerniawski studied the
standards of work and image production in the plus-sized model
industry. Fashioning Fat takes us through a model's day-to-day
activities, first at open calls at modeling agencies and then
through the fashion shows and photo shoots. Czerniawski also
interviewed 35 plus-size models about their lives in the world of
fashion, bringing to life the strange contradictions of being an
object of non-idealized beauty. Fashioning Fat shows us that the
mission of many of these models is to challenge our standards of
beauty that privilege the thin body; they show us that fat can be
sexy. Many plus-size models do often succeed in overcoming years of
self-loathing and shame over their bodies, yet, as Czerniawski
shows, these women are not the ones in charge of beauty's
construction or dissemination. At the corporate level, the fashion
industry perpetuates their objectification. Plus-size models must
conform to an image created by fashion's tastemakers, as their
bodies must fit within narrowly defined parameters of size and
shape--an experience not too different from that of straight-sized
models. Ultimately, plus-size models find that they are still
molding their bodies to fit an image instead of molding an image of
beauty to fit their bodies. A much-needed behind-the-scenes look at
this growing industry, Fashioning Fat is a fascinating, unique, and
important contribution to our understanding of beauty.
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