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Stacy and Audra talk beauty, trends, top styles, and more.
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Plus-size Models Champion Real Women at New York Fashion Week Audra: Welcome back everybody. Its time for hot topics and I'm here with our beauty and lifestyle expert, Stacy Cox, good to have you back Stacy. And we were talking at backstage earlier about the fashion week. And what you see at fashion week. Now that is old news, fashion week is old news. But there's a lot of people that are commenting on the fact that there was one particular event put on by I think it's called one stop plus. It’s a retail company. For a plus size models and the runway and there were a million one comments on the website where people are saying, “Finally, we love seeing this”, but a lot of people are upset by the phrase “Real Women” because of the size of the clothing that the women wear. And a lot of people are saying, hey, you know what, if we’re under a size 12 or under a size 14, are we not real women? What do you think about that? Stacy: Or if you were size 2. Audra: Yeah, right. Stacy: Or a 4 or 6. I think that we should -- I think there is a backlash on the size 2’s and then that’s wrong. That becomes the hypocrisy. Audra: Exactly. Stacy: First you're discriminating against 8’s, 9’s, 10’s, 12’s and on up. And now, you're saying, well, 2’s are too small, too lean. Audra: Yeah. Stacy: Women are everything. Men too are everything. Audra: It’s the same thing with men and women and a lot of people are saying, you know, in order for you to not to exclude one group or the other. I don’t understand why it’s not that difficult. Why not just include women of different sizes on the runway? Why do they have to be one size or the other? There's a retailers like Marc Jacobs even Forever 21 that are coming out with different lines to appeal to women that do wear larger sizes -- Stacy: Because they want to make money. Audra: Money. Yes. Stacy: And they are smart. Do you embrace us? We’ll embrace you with our dollars and our credits cards. Audra: And I don’t think that the retailers realize this because what I'm reading here says its a billion dollar industry. It’s an under served population. What is going to take for them to realize that or are they trying so hard to sell appeal to one certain area of population. Stacy: What we've seen -- what we saw this year at fashion week was baby steps with the plus size event. My hope as a fashionista is that next year, we’ll see a couple more events. What we should be seeing on runway is a variety. And we should see the 2’s and we should see the 12’s and everything in between, and the 14’s whatever we need to do to make people feel comfortable about their self image and have self-confidence. That will get them in stores and get them shopping. Audra: I personally would feel like I would want to support a company where retailer or designer. If I knew that they went out of their way to try to accommodate more than just one area of the population, I would definitely go out there and spend my dollars doing that. And you and I were talking about our own issues with weight when we we’re younger. And please don’t write me letters please don’t. It’s not always me situation. I was grossly underweight when I was younger to the point when people would pick on you, to call you -- I don’t even want to say the names that they call you. But -- Stacy: I was telling you that and I'm telling people watching that I've been on weight, I'm 37. I've been on weight watchers on and off since I was an eight grade and I was 13 years old when I got my first 10-pound weight loss. Audra: 13 or so. Stacy: I got a ribbon to motivate me. And I've been fighting that issue just as you were fighting the opposite converse. But we all have to support each other and have -- like I always say, balance and positively. Audra: Right. Stacy: Because it projects well. It makes us meet our goals easier. And let the same with clothes, we’ll spend more if the industry, if the fashion industry accepts us for who we are. We’ll accept them back. Audra: Exactly. It doesn’t go just way or the other. We still have issues from that. Thank you very much Stacy. Good to have you back. Stacy: You too. Audra: Alright. We’ll be back after this.
