By Lisa Pool Content Manager | May 29, 2013 at 10:27 pm | No comments
Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger's 17-year-old daughter recently received criticism for not having enough of a model body. She shot back in an amazing blog post, writing:
"Of course I get those comments about how I am too fat to model, how I am not model material, how I am an...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | April 21, 2013 at 4:59 pm | No comments
"There is a real thirst for ‘normal’ sized women"
Taken from The Huffington Post: After years of silence on the matter, the fashion industry finally seems poised to embrace fuller, less svelte figures. Plus-size models like Robyn Lawley and Crystal Renn are already...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | April 14, 2013 at 4:32 pm | No comments
Queen Grace has been a big supporter of the community efforts to save and restore Detroit to it's glory days of prosperity and rich culture, so we're really pleased to share a super enlightening story about a group of young, industrious entrepreneurs doing everything they can to...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 14, 2013 at 7:04 pm | No comments
Be it at the workplace or in a relationship, men really do like confident women. One clever guy lists a few great reasons why...
According to Jason Dayrit, a contributor to the Female Network, in today’s modern times, being the “damsel in distress” may work for you for...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | November 13, 2012 at 9:20 pm | One comment
Well what do you know. every day something new and more life affirming is coming out of the major media houses proclaiming PLUS is the new IT GIRL. We couldn't agree more, knowing from our own QG WD perspective that the forces our with us! Every day, multiple times we hear...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 24, 2012 at 3:55 am | One comment
Lady Gaga gets all the credit for her body revolution campaign, but a New York College student had been a bolder advocate for body acceptance in recent months. Stella Boonshoft has become a viral hero thanks to her blog, in which she speaks frankly and powerfully about weight...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm | No comments
Our favorite quote in this article released by VOGUE Magazine, "I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect, like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight," she said.
ALEXA CHUNG has responded to...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 12, 2012 at 4:26 pm | No comments
ON her new show, “The Mindy Project,” Mindy Kaling plays a single doctor who is irked but not undone by a male colleague telling her she should lose 15 pounds.
Neither is Hannah, the character Lena Dunham plays on her HBO comedy, “Girls.” When a boyfriend asked her...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 5, 2012 at 11:26 pm | No comments
Powerful and truly inspiring words from a woman who would not tolerate the harsh, cruel words of an email from a viewer. Instead of letting a bully's harsh words about her weight bring her down, WKBT-TV news anchor Jennifer Livingston decided to speak up.
In an editorial...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 3, 2012 at 6:26 pm | No comments
"Loving Large" - Trailer from Rogue Culture on Vimeo.
We couldn't be more pleased with this week's debut airing of the MTV LOGO documentary, "Loving Large." This groundbreaking program highlights the life and loves of the plus size men and women and Queen Grace Collection...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | August 26, 2012 at 5:58 pm | No comments
According to the LA Times (and isn't it just wonderful that our dear friend Marie Denee of the Curvy Fashionista is getting so much recognition?) designers are 100% on board and full steam ahead with embracing the plus size fashion consumer. We know! Queen Grace has been there...
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