Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling (29 page)

body capital

body mass index (BMI)

body projects

failed

book (portfolio)

bookers.
See
agents

booking board

Bordo, Susan

Bourdieu, Pierre

brand ambassador

brand spoilage

breasts

British Fashion Council

Bryant, Lena

Bush, George W.

Butler, Judith

Cabiria Style

Cacique

Campaign for Real Beauty (Dove)

capital: athletic physical

body

economic

model physical

physical

carnal sociology

castings (auditions)

open calls

celebrity wasting syndrome

Cello clothing line

chance and modeling

rejection and

Chanel

Cherished-Woman.com

Chico’s

clients, fashion: agents and

as tastemakers

Coco & Juan

commercial persona

composite card

compulsive exercising

confidence

consumer object

consumers

contractors, independent

controlling images

corporal discipline

cosmetic panopticon

cosmetic surgery

Council of Fashion Designers of America

couture, Parisian haute

Cult of California

cult of health

cultural field

cultural goal of becoming photographable

curves

Curvy Couture

Curvy Fashionist

Curvy Girls

D’Amour, Velvet

Dahl, Sophie

dancers: burlesque

exotic

Davis, Kathy

Dean, Deborah

department stores

designers.
See also specific designers

Designs by Lanie Inc.

DeVoe, Gwendoyln

dieting

Dillon, Kate

Dillon, Liz

disciplinary power

discipline, bodily

disembodiment

diversity: of bodies and looks

of race

do looks

docile bodies

Doneger Group

eating disorders: anorexia

binge eating

compulsive exercising

Elle
magazine

embodiment

illusion of

emotional labor

empowerment

Entwistle, Joanne

ethnic diversity

ethnography

exercise

fantasy

Farrell, Amy Erdman

fashion: as fantasy

as spectacle

Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Law Institute

Fashion Week: Full Figured

London

Madrid

Milan

New York

Paris

Pulp

fat: acceptance of

commodification of

cultural discourse of

discrimination of

fear of

fetishized

stereotypes of

stigma of

studies of

theatricality of

fat activists

Fat Shame

fit modeling

Ford Models

Foucault, Michel

freelance work

front stage behavior

“girl,” colloquial use of

Galliano, John

gatekeepers

Gaultier, Jean Paul

gaze, the

internalized

male

Geertz, Clifford

gender

doing

performativity

as social construction

Giddens, Anthony

Glamour
magazine

gluttony

go native

go-sees, defined

Goffman, Erving

Graham, Ashley

Graham, Sylvester

grotesque body

Gruys, Kjerstin

Gun, Tim

H&M

habitus

Hamilton, Filippa

Harper’s Bazaar

health

hegemony

heteronormativity

hips

Hips and Curves

Hochschild, Arlie Russell

Hudson, Jennifer

Hungry
(book)

identity

class

gender

social

IGIGI

image.
See
controlling images; representation of bodies

IMG Models

impersonality

independent contractors

insecurity

insider

intimate apparel.
See also
lingerie

Intimates by Venezia

Jablonski, Jaquelyn

JAG Models

Jeffries, Mike

Jenny Craig

Jones, Madeline

Kim, Dual

Klum, Heidi

Korshunova, Ruslana

labor: affective

backstage

emotional

front stage

physical

labor unions

Lacerda, Fluvia

Lagerfeld, Karl

Lane Bryant

Latina: and body image

as models

representations of.
See also
race

Laurel, Larissa

Lawley, Robyn

LeBesco, Kathleen

Lemert, Edwin

Limited, The

Eloquii

lingerie.
See also
intimate apparel

look

Lord & Taylor

losing weight

Luscious Plus Lingerie

Lynn, Tara

magazines.
See also specific titles

management: of body

of models

marginalization

market segmentation

marketability

masculine domination

Mears, Ashley

measurements, body

Miller, Eden

Miller, Lizzie

Millman, Marcia

Miro, Elena

Mode
magazine

Model Alliance, The

model physical capital

models and modeling: as aesthetic workers

age

bodies of (
see
bodies; body capital; skinny vision; thin privilege); catalogue

of color (
see
ethnic diversity; race); commercial

editorial

failed

fit

freelance

as independent contractors

as objects

plus-size

rates

runway

showroom

signed

straight-size

unsigned.
See also specific models

Monif C.

Munster, Tess

Murphy, Alexandra G.

Murray, Samantha

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)

niches

NPD Group

Obama, Michelle

obesity: crisis

definition

objectification

observing participant

open calls

overweight

padding

participant observation

paternalism

performance: of fat

in modeling

performers

theatrical

photo shoots

photographers

physical labor

physical strategies

pinup girls

Plus Academy, The

PLUS Model Magazine

plus size: defined

in fashion

in retail

Plus Size Designers Council

Plus Size Plum Lingerie

Polaroid

portfolio (book)

power: aesthetics and

consumers and

cultural institution and

representation through the body

prestige

Pricing Beauty

proofs

Queen Latifah

Quinn, Sharon

race: body ideals and

exoticism and

fashion industry and.
See also
ethnic diversity

Ralph Lauren

Ramirez, Sara

Ramos, Luisel

ready-to-wear apparel

recruitment: former

outsider

performer

scouting

self-promoter

typology of

rejection: of fat stigma

in modeling

Renn, Crystal

representation of bodies: class and

fat and

gender and

race and

Reston, Ana Carolina

retailers

resistance by.
See also specific brands

Richardson, Terry

Rocha, Coco

Rocky Mountain Clothing Co.

Runk, Jennie

runway

Sauers, Jenna

Scafidi, Susan

schedules

Schuller, Catherine

scouts and scouting.
See
recruitment

Screen Actors Guild (SAG)

scrutiny

Sculptresse by Panache

Seventeen
magazine

sex work

sexual agency

sexuality

shapewear

sin by omission

size acceptance

size: of models

in retail

vanity

size discrimination

skinny backlash

skinny vision

slenderness as ideal

smizing

social identity

social status

Solovay, Sondra

Spanx.
See also
shapeware

spoiled identities

St. John, Matilda

stigma

Stinson, Kandi

suicide

surveillance

SVOBODA

tape measure

Target

taste

tastemakers.
See also
agents: as tastemakers

technologies of control

test shoots

thin privilege

thinness.
See also
slenderness as ideal

thinness, as master status

Thomas, Patti

Thompson, Whitney

thought collective

tokenism

Torrid

Turner, Bryan S.

Tyler, Mia

Unbearable Weight

uncertainty, of work

underground modeling market

unions.
See also specific unions

unpredictability: in scheduling

success and

V Magazine

Venezia Jeans

Victoria’s Secret

Vogue
magazine

voiceless bodies

Wacquant, Loic

wages, in fit modeling

Wainwright, Steven P.

Wal-Mart

Wall-E

Wann, Marilyn

Ward, Gemma

Weiner’s department store

weight: normal

over-

under-.
See also
obesity

weight bias

Weight Watchers

Wesely, Jennifer K.

Wilhelmina Models

Winfrey, Oprah

Wissinger, Elizabeth

Wolf, Naomi

women: of color (
see
race); disembodiment of

empowerment of

as models (
see
models and modeling); objectification of

Women’s Wear Daily
magazine

x factor

youth: and beauty

market

Zeltser, Yuliya

zero, size.
See also
slenderness as ideal

Ziff, Sara

Amanda M. Czerniawski is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University.