Fashion Week's Latest Trend? Plus-Size Models

The semiannual New York Fashion Show is giving something new to look at - plus size models. While women who are size double-zero and zero are still flocking the runway, size 12 women are stepping into the spotlight. While size 12 isn't tiny, it is still smaller than the average American at size 14.

"One of the things that's happened is that as the general population has gotten bigger and bigger, the models were getting smaller and smaller and smaller," Robin Givhan, fashion editor for The Washington Post, tells NPR's Renee Montagne.

Although plus-sized women are hitting the runway, there still remains a large gap between what the fashion industry and average Americans consider plus-size. With extraordinarily tiny women portraying beauty and fashion, when does plus-size, in a profoundly overweight population, become just as distressing unhealthy an image as emaciation?

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