Plus-Size Models Get Naked for a Cause
Photo: Icelandic Glamour / Silja Magg
Professional models taking it all off for a photo shoot isn’t new—but undressing on their own accord? That’s slightly more unusual.
In an effort to normalize the idea of models (and in turn, women) having a wide array of industry-accepted body types, IMG models Ashley Graham, Danielle Redman, Marquita Pring, and Julie Henderson launched a modeling collective in 2014 called ALDA (which means ‘wave’ in Icelandic). According to its mission statement, ALDA’s goal is to “challenge conventional notions in the fashion industry and promote a holistic view of beauty, via opportunities without categories, labels, and limitations.”
Photo: Icelandic Glamour / Silja Magg
One way they’re trying to raise awareness? By posing as a group, both fully-clothed, in their skivvies, and in the buff, for the latest (and second ever) issue of Glamour Iceland. By showing off their curves—and non-curves, alike—as a unified group, the models are proving that potentially career-harming labels like “straight size” and “plus-size” (and especially the dreaded “in between”) are truly in need of being abolished.
With the growing focus on promoting healthy bodies in the fashion world today (see: new laws in France and Spain banning underweight-models from walking the runway), we’d say ALDA’s cause is certainly one worth supporting. Maybe then, “plus-size” models could finally stop wearing padded undergarments…
See more photos from the shoot at Popsugar.
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