Plus-Size Lingerie Photo Shoot: See The New Gok Wan for Simply Be Line …
December 13, 2012 by admin
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Fashion expert (and HuffPost blogger) Gok Wan is now trying his hand at designing sexy lingerie.
For a new spread on gokwan.com, SLiNK magazine, a publication devoted to plus size fashion, paired with the designer to dress the lovely Michelle from Milk Model Management in his new line of lacy underthingies for British brand Simply Be. (Ed. note: While it might seem bogus that a figure like Michelle’s is deemed “plus-size,” that’s the technical term the industry has afforded models size 12 [U.S.] and up.)
As SLiNK, which launched in print and online last year, writes,
The collection Gok does with Simply Be always feels romantic, vintage and super glamorous and puts other shapewear to shame. We really wanted to celebrate the fact that for once there is an exclusive collection for curvier women that feels fresh, modern and totally sexy as well as having a fantastic functional aspect. The shoot was based around the theatrics of showgirls and oozes the glamour that every woman can feel in Gok’s amazing lingerie collection.
And glamorous they are: the corsets, bras and retro-chic panties exude vintage cool. Can we get Robyn Lawley to model these stateside, please?
See the (jaw-dropping beautiful) photos below!
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Evelyn Lozada Bares All For New PETA Ad: ‘Cross Cruelty Off Your Shopping …
December 13, 2012 by admin
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In the winter campaign, reality star Lozada is lying on “snow” with snowflakes on her body. The ad says, “Animals killed for their fur are electrocuted, drowned, beatern, and often skinned alive. Cross cruelty off your shopping list—go fur-free.”
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I am an animal lover. I was definitely one of those people that wore fur years ago.
“I was looking online and seeing how these animals are tortured and skinned, and you don’t really realize the hurt and the pain that they go through just for fashion, and I want to be a voice for them,” Lozada said at the campaign launch in Los Angeles.
Last month, television personality Wendy Williams took her clothes off in support of PETA, also with the message that going naked is better than wearing fur.
Williams unveiled her winter campaign for the animal rights organization at Times Square in New York.
“We should all try to be comfortable in our own skin and let animals keep theirs,” Williams told PETA.
On the organization’s official site, it states that Williams is also encouraging “people who have fur coats to donate them to PETA so that they can be given to the homeless. PETA is working with shelters in Wendy’s home state of New Jersey on coat drives this winter — something that is in great demand as the numbers of needy and displaced people have increased following Hurricane Sandy.”
In the ad, her long hair is the only thing covering her chest as she lies down. In another ad, she is standing, and a tattoo she has across her lower stomach area is clearly visible.
In October, “Real Housewives of Miami” star Joanna Krupa bared it all for a PETA ad.
“There is nothing sexy about wearing something that is so obviously tied to senseless pain and killing,” Krupa told PETA.
While PETA has good intentions, the animal rights group is no stranger to controversy. Earlier this year, PETA launched an adult site, which includes an ad featuring former porn star Jenna Jameson dressed in lingerie with the caption, “Pleather yourself.”
“We’re hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn’t anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site,” Lindsay Rajt, PETA’s associate director of campaigns told Reuters.
But Jennifer Pozner, executive director of the New York-based advocacy group Women In Media News, criticized PETA, calling the nonprofit organization “extremely disingenuous.”
“They have consistently used active sexism as their marketing strategy to garner attention. Their use of sexism has gotten more extreme and more degrading,” she went on to say.
Alicia Silverstone, Maggie Q, Pamela Anderson and Angela Simmons are among other notable names who have participated in ad campaigns for PETA.