Whitney Port arrives in Australia and gets set to debut Whitney Eve and W.E by Whitney Eve at MBFWA and Crystal Renn explains the pressure of being a plus-sized model.
Announcing the first ever international designer and celebrity to launch their self-titled collections through Australian Fashion Week. Style icon and reality TV star, Whitney Port is headed to Australian for the launch of her two signature fashion lines, Whitney Eve and diffusion line W.E by Whitney Eve.
Fresh from judging Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model, the international star will début her collections to the Australian fashion media pack at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia
Originally launched in 2008, Port recently took to the runway at New York Fashion Week, unveiling her Autumn/Winter 2012 collection.
With hopes for success Down Under, she will reveal her eclectic Spring/Summer 12/13 range in an installation format within the new MBFWA venue space, The Box on Monday 30th April at 7pm.
Influenced by her Los Angeles upbringing and her time spent in New York City, the collection combines a relaxed Californian style, with the perfect balance of edginess straight off the streets of Manhattan. Heidi Klum, Alessandra Ambrosio, Isla Fisher, Nikki Hilton and the Kardashians to name a few have all been spotted in Whitney’s collections. Both ranges incorporate styles forming anarray of silhouettes, from party dresses to playful androgynous pieces thathave been heavily influenced from Ports own signature style.
The S/S collections from Whitney Eve, and W.E by Whitney Eve will be available in stores nationally from August 2012.
Crystal Renn says being a plus-sized model was too pressurised. The 25-year-old beauty has seen her weight fluctuate over the years and despite being very successful when she was at her heaviest, she admits the pressure became too much.
Crystal – who is now a US size six and UK 10 – said, “I think that by placing a title on my head, which is ‘plus-size,’ and then the picture that these people have created in their mind about what plus-size actually is, I’ve basically failed you just with that. Because I couldn’t possibly live up to that, and at this point in my life I would have to actually have another eating disorder to live up to that expectation.”
As well as her weight changing, Crystal recently dyed her hair platinum blonde and said she was “excited” by her transformation. She recently revealed, “People can’t believe the transformation. I had black hair and now I have white hair. That’s what’s so exciting. I wanted to do something different. I wanted to show up as a different canvas at a shoot. It’s a very extreme look but very beautiful. Though it’s nothing conventional.”
