Franca Sozzani, editor of Vogue Italia, featured three voluptuous ladies on the cover for its June Issue. Plus size models on a cover of vogue? Anna Wintor may have fainted. This beautiful image features the ladies in lingere with gentle hair and seductive makeup.
In the interview with Franca Sozzzani she stated that " We are used to seeing teenagers — 14, 15, 17, 18 years old — they are not able to use their bodies and their bodies are still not shaped. I don’t know why it became a prototype of a beauty, like Twiggy in the sixties or Veruschka. But you realize the women with the bodies are much more interesting than teenagers."
Franca Sozzani was part of a petition against pro-anorexia sites and was questioned as to why she doeskin use more curvy figures in Vogue Italia. So in a rebuttal against these statements she decided to launch this cover and held a casting of plus size, curvy women to be on the cover. She didn't not even just search for plus size models, real women could be selected as well. Three girls were chosen and produced this stunning cover.
I highly reccomend reading the rest of the article, which you can read here.
