Project Runway: Drag Queens v. Big Girls
- Author: curvy angela
- Filed under: Body Image, Fashion Media
Aug 21,2008
I love Project Runway, and in fine Project Runway fashion, this week’s challenge of styling drag queens is supposed to be the “difficult” body challenge of the season. In the past, this challenge included styling family members of the designers, thus dealing with “real” bodies, and designing for women who had lost a lot of weight.
In past episodes, I was always annoyed with the way the designers whined about having to deal with big, female bodies. You’re fashion designers, for God’s sake! Design! You can make a dress out of corn husks but you can’t make a big girl look good?
So, this week you’ve got a runway full of big girls, and I didn’t hear one whiny complaint about being stuck with the big body. They talk about being “way out of my comfort zone,” but no one is being a whiny baby (as I’ve seen in the past). Of course, Korto, the designer who is most comfortable with size diversity, was responsible for the biggest body, so she didn’t act like styling “Sweetie” was the end of the world. And, she got raves from the judges on the design.
So, it’s easier for designers to style for “faux” big girls than it is for them to style for “real” big girls. I remain baffled.
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5 Responses for "Project Runway: Drag Queens v. Big Girls"
Thats a really interesting point. I guess its ‘cool’ to design for drag queens because your supposed to go over the top glamourous and so your not supposed to make a dress that a normal person could walk down the road in. But I guess they find designing for big woman less glamorous. So it boils down to fat been seen as unglamourous again. So fashion designers throw big hissy fits. Anyway thats my take.
I know what would make styling the “faux big girls” lots easier - put them in pants, where they belong, and tell them to stop trying to look like women. Any woman. but especially cher, madonna, marilyn monroe, or janet jackson.
It’s easier to ’style’ them because a transvestite doesn’t expect to be taken seriously, nor should they be.
I also didn’t hear any of the wo-men saying boo about body image. Not once did anyone comment on fat or thin or anything. They have learned to love themselves as they are.
…They have learned to love themselves as they are….
if you are talking about the trannies, allisoncarter, you couldn’t be further from the truth.
The definition of loving yourself as you are would include accepting the sex/gender of the body you were born in, rrrriiiight..?
@Hope
Who says “self as you are” is defined by the gender concepts of your culture or of the age into which you are born?
Gender is as much a cultural construct as beauty. And definitions of how each gender is “supposed” to dress or act has changed throughout the years and across cultures. Had these individuals lived in the court of Louis XIV, they would have been considered manly men.
I find attacks on those who challenge gender concepts to be as offensive to me as those who challenge beauty concepts. I love the confidence and pride that these men have in the face of rejection by most of our society. I feel like I have something to learn from them.
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