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Meet Qristyl Frazier, The Plus-Size Designer From Lifetime's Project Runway

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In the world of reality television, full-figured fashion designers are all but ignored. Lifetime's "Project Runway" season six contestant Qristyl Frazier is determined to change that. The 42-year-old St. Louis, Missouri, native broke ground as the first plus-size designer to be featured on "Project Runway," but that's only the beginning. The "Plus-Sexy" reality star, whom Tim Gunn calls "a hoot," spoke with ESSENCE.com about her plans to revitalize full-figured fashion and design for Oprah -- and reveals how not even Michael Kors can get in her way. Head over to the Essence blog for the full interview!

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What Fashion Insiders Think Of Glamour's Plus-Size Model

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We told you all about how much positive response Glamour magazine has received from readers for the image of a nude plus-size model featured in the September issue. Lizzie Miller has since appeared on "Today" and copies of the magazine are selling out. Catherine wondered whether the overwhelmingly positive response would result in magazines, and the fashion industry, finally recognizing that beauty comes in a variety of shapes and sizes and that they would start featuring more models like Miller on a regular basis. The Sartorialist's Scott Schuman wrote on his blog, "When I am shooting on the street older women and larger size women often say 'no' to my request to shoot them... I think they have a real suspicion about how the image will be used. I also think there continues to be a growing disconnect between the fashion community and 'average' women in general."


See the rest of this article at The Frisky.

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