Rosemary Mac Cabe

• advertising size issues
• September 5, 2012, 18:11

The models in Marks & Spencer‘s A/W TV ad. Standing ovation for you, kids. This is the crux of what needs to happen in the fashion industry. We don’t need to get rid of “skinny” models. Nor do we need to …

• celebrity size issues
• August 10, 2012, 07:30

I got to thinking, this week, about celebrities – as I was bombarded, at every possible corner, with images of Jordin Sparks’ “dramatic” weight loss of 50lbs (which really is not that dramatic; give me a 207lb weight loss over that …

• celebrity magazines shoes and boots size issues stylists
• July 20, 2012, 18:19

Just in case you’re the type of gal / guy who likes to spend their weekend at their computer, coffee at one elbow and iPhone at the other, rarely leaving the house or seeing the sun. Or, y’know, in case …

• advertising models online shopping photography size issues
• July 10, 2012, 10:30

Remember Codie Young? She last hit headlines in July of 2011 when the then-18-year-old model was removed from Topshop’s homepage after complaints from eating disorder groups about her slight frame. Well Young has finally reappeared, as the poster girl for …

• celebrity magazines size issues
• June 6, 2012, 07:30

Kim Kardashian may have shot herself in the foot by tweeting these pics of herself backstage on an Esquire magazine photoshoot – while I can appreciate Kim’s enthusiastic tweeting (almost as much as Jenny Johnson does), I do find it staggering …

• magazines models size issues underwear
• June 5, 2012, 07:30

I just stumbled across this shoot featuring Australian plus-size model, Robyn Lawley, on I Love Wildfox, and it reminded me of this underwear shoot featuring Laragh McCann that I featured a few months back. This is an underwear shoot featuring a …

• size issues
• May 30, 2012, 10:25

Got something to say about being plus-sized and shopping in a distinctly smaller-sized market? Let me know in the comments, or by email at rmaccabe@irishtimes.com. And I know y’all are finding the new commenting system hard to get to grips …

• advertising magazines size issues
• May 21, 2012, 07:30

Candice Huffine, a plus-size model with Ford, is on the cover of the latest issue of S Moda, in, well, nothing. It’s not a particularly great departure for the plus-size genre; in the past few years we’ve seen several plus-sized …