It might be May, but fashion’s diving head first into fall.

Pants and jackets should hit shelves next month, September cover girls are probably being discussed and most houses have started, if not finished, shooting their fall ad campaigns.

Ricardo Tisci cast a co-ed crew for his runway last season, and he’s carried the theme over into Givenchy’s colorful AW10 campaign. He’s cast his transgender fit model Lea T. alongside Mariacarla, Catherine McNeil, and Malgosia Bela in the Mert and Marcus shot campaign.

Karlie Kloss shot Donna Karan last week, and Madonna posed for Dolce & Gabbana in Harlem the day before. Meanwhile, Vanessa Traina’s been shooting Louis Vuitton’s pre-fall campaign in Paris this week. French Vogue‘s Geraldine Saglio’s styling, while Benoit Peverelli shoots. And Steven Meisel’s shooting Daria Stroukus and Angela Lindvall for Prada. The only Victoria’s Secret model to make the cut is Miranda Kerr, the least curvy of the bunch, which makes us wonder, where did all the curvy girls go?

The gaggle of Victoria’s Secret models being flown from Milan’s Prada show to Giles‘ runway to Marc’s Louis Vuitton fountain extravaganza could not have gotten more buzz last season. Miuccia said it’s “womanly collection with sexier models,” and Katie Grand said of Louis Vuitton, “Marc said very early on, ‘I’ve been thinking about tits.’”

So if the designers made ‘womanly’ clothes and purposefully cast the curviest models in years to walk their runways—because they conveyed the designers’ ideal aesthetic—what happened? Why aren’t they in the fall campaigns, too?


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Just a note..'transgendered' isn't correct terminology. It should just be 'transgender'. Otherwise, lovely post, love reading this blog.

We all knew that wasn't going to last…trends come and go.

Ugh…thank God. I was getting tired of seeing all those fat girls plod and plomp down the runway, anyway.

Ugh…thank God. I was getting tired of seeing all those fat girls plod and plomp down the runway, anyway.

Alessandra Ambrosio also got 2 campaigns this season ; Moschino & Loewe and more of her work to come (she shot Vogue Nippon cover too).

vanessa traina for louis vuitton? that girl has the opposite of boobs

For pre-fall, though, not F/W '10 (AKA the boobs collection). F/W '10 is supposedly Christy Turlington, Natalia V, and Karen Elson.

Well, I think its worth noting that (as another commenter pointed out) Miranda Kerr in Prada and Alessandra A in Moschino and Loewe is something (especially when not all of the campaign news has come out yet). Coco's rumored to be in Balenciaga, Cat and Malgosia are in Givenchy, Maryna's in Derek Lam, Lara's in CK collection, jeans, and beauty, and Giorgio Armani cosmetics…these women aren't “curvy”…none of the woman on the Prada runway really were… but they aren't size 0 15 year olds, either. It does seem like there's been a consistent trend towards using models who are either slightly larger (size 4s) or older (like the LV cast).

This is meant with no offense to the transgender woman, but does anyone else have a problem with the fact that she would be used as a fit model? There have been always been jokes about designers really wanting to design for boys/men, but using a non-biological female frame as a standard doesn't seem right.

That's not to question Lea's femininity, or discount the fact that there are biological women who have more straight body types, but even thin women have curved hips and body characteristics that are distinctly feminine. Hormones, implants and surgeries can go a long way towards making a transgender man->woman feel more feminine, but most still have a masculine frame – i.e. no hips, longer torso, broader upper body.

Which hardly seems ideal for fitting clothes meant (mostly) for a post-pubescent biological woman's body.

Riccardo does design menswear too…maybe Lea was the fit model for his menswear line before she transitioned? Apparently she was the fit model years and years ago for Tisci's own label so it's possible.

Way to keep it classy.

Where did the curves go?
Tisci cast a transgender model. Real women have curves. (And normally I am loath to use that figure of speech).

Thanks!!!

:)