As one of our New Features this year in OMGoddess, we want to show you what other plus sized, curvey, chubby and BAM POW beautiful girls are wearing. One of the ways to do this is by submitting a full length photo (you can use www.flickr.com–it’s free) to us along with where you bought your outfit from, how you decided to put it together.

Here is an example:

Lime Tee Shirt: GoodWill store 1.00
Dress: Delighful_Deals on Ebay 12.00
Bag: Bag Lady of Paris- 5.00
Bracelet: omgoddess 9.99 ebay
shoes: Nike Free Personalized 129.00 –of course its my 1 and ONLY pair of shoes.
Little white thing in hair is left over from the Blue Man Group show.
The NO smile is because I lost too much $$

So that’s basically it. We love to see the “outfits” that you guys put together. Called also Street ware or thrifting, etc. It supports your own personal style. We are going to try to have a re-mixer at least 1 a month — more if i’m able to get this started.

you can submit your info to me at omgnews at gmail.com. I look forward to getting your beautiful pictures. If you don’t have a web photo place like flickr or photobucket..just email me your pics along with the description of where you got them and why you put that outfit together.

The Paris shows kicked off with organizers saying they would not ban skinny models from the runways and Jean Paul Gaultier weighing into the debate by hiring a 132-kilogram model.

In what seemed more of a nod to front-row guest, the burlesque artiste Dita Von Teese, Gaultier sent out the plus-sized Paris-based American model and actress Velvet d’Amour, 39, in a satin corset and negligee. The rest of his collection was on a “workout” theme, an athletic wear-inspired collection of silk track pants, hooded sweat tops and dresses.

Australian Gemma Ward modeled in the same show on Tuesday, a week after industry gossip whispered that she had missed the Milan shows because she had put on weight and not because she was reading for a third new film project in Los Angeles.

“Gemma’s not a fatty, let me tell you,” said d’Amour afterwards, adding that society should give her more svelte runway colleagues a break.

“If you tell me somebody’s too thin, if you tell me somebody’s too fat, you’re still being prejudiced. The point is diversity,” d’Amour told the Herald.

–From IHT

From the San Francisco Chronicle

At 31, Johanna Dray is breathtakingly beautiful, with shoulder-length black hair and big, dark eyes. When she stands up, however, she reveals what has kept her out of most major fashion magazines and catwalks in Europe, including this month’s Paris fashion shows: a voluptuous figure clad, one recent evening, in chic black pants.

“The fashion industry is still really snobby,” said Dray, who became one of France’s first plus-size models a decade ago, and remains among the country’s most successful. “There are only a handful of designers who have used big women for their shows. It’s still pretty closed.” Full Story »