The revolution of the curvy universe in the world of fashion is finally taking hold on the catwalks. The era of breadsticks is fortunately over to give space to real people, with their shapes and roundness. Who said skinny is beautiful? In recent times the stereotype of female beauty has favored thinness in the fashion sector, even reaching extreme levels, and creating a distorted world, at the limits of reality. However, the dictatorship of breadstick sizes, fortunately, is increasingly giving way to the freedom to feel comfortable in sizes L and up, making everyone proud of their curves. This is due to the fact that 80% of women do not wear a size 0 but on average they range from 44 to 48. Having a size that does not exactly reflect the stereotyped beauty standards imposed by society does not necessarily mean being fat, but proud of who you are and above all accepting your body with all the curves in their place. Is it really possible to be sexy without wearing the famous size 38 and having decidedly generous shapes? Women with generous shapes are well-groomed, toned, in harmony with their body shape. Real people with studied and successful sex appeal; the right combination of softness, elegance, refinement and self-irony. Eight out of ten men, in fact, honestly admit that they find a curvy woman much more intriguing than a skinny one. Fortunately, the real woman is back in fashion. The concept of aesthetics is very relative compared to the complex and articulated meaning it possesses. In ancient times, for example, the Greeks believed that beauty could only derive from the essential set of harmony, symmetry and proportion: the perfection produced by the measurements of the parts, the set of qualities perceived through our senses and which arouse sensations in us definitely pleasant. We are all beautiful and have the right to like ourselves and be liked. All we need to do is take advantage of the opportunity to highlight our qualities, even if curvy women, as we know, are not much appreciated by the world of fashion and catwalks.
However, there are many models, the so-called “curvy” ones, who are fighting hard battles to not be discriminated against, and above all to be recognized as supermodels in all respects. Among these we find Barbara Ferreira who owes her fame to her soft and abundant curves which she shows with real pride and Ashley Graham, size 48-50, the first “plus size” model to pose for Sports Illustrated. True beauty, as Vogue Italia defined them on the historic 2011 cover; curvy women have shapes but are not fat. They are people who had the intelligence to create a completely new and conscious relationship with their own body. Curvy, so what? Maybe they do not represent the prototype of canonical beauty that the mass media have tried to recreate with the image of a glam woman, tall, young and thin, but they too can be amazing, beautiful, sexy and desirable. «Size diversity is not just a female problem», declared Ivan Bart, president of IMG Models, one of the most important fashion agencies in the world with offices in New York, Paris, London, Milan and Singapore, which provides “Brawn” a division for plus-size models; an initiative with a positive and truly significant message regarding dimensional diversity even among men. Physicality is important and plus-size in a man is not only fascinating, but an indication of masculinity. Curvy is sexy even for men. Let’s face it, a little fat never hurts, it helps to give us a feeling of strength and power and above all, who makes us feel more protected than a man with a belly? As they say: man of guts, man of substance. The perfect size? It’s all in the brain: sensuality and charm are not a question of size. The imperative is to love and accept yourself for who you are, healthy bearers of roundness. This should give us a certain awareness: each of us is different from the others and is beautiful precisely because of our uniqueness. In short, it is not thinness that makes a person fascinating, but the joy with which he experiences his shapes, his simply being a human being.
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