The Sartorialist Calls Photo Subject “Bigger, Curvier” and “Sturdy”; Prompts Commenter Outrage
The Sartorialist‘s Scott Schuman posted two photos of Milanese fashion blogger Angelica Ardasheva on his site yesterday (thanks to Jezebel for identifying her and her blog). Schuman doesn’t usually post commentary with his images–they speak for themselves. But on this entry he offered these thoughts:
I saw this young lady in Milan several times this past season. She is one of the crop of new bloggers. I loved that she’s a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press and tend to represent the genre.
The subtle thing she achieves so successfully in these two looks is to complement the sturdy but beautiful shape of her legs with an equally strong shoe. A daintier shoe would be overpowered but these shoes create a beautiful harmony for the lower half of her body.
Commenters seized on Schuman’s descriptors, and 1148 of them have weighed in, most of them expressing outrage or disappointment, like this one:
