The IMG Models president, Ivan Bart, said that it was the success of Curve, i ts division for generously proportioned femmes, that inspired Brawn. The fashion industry has long since acknowledged plus-size women. They tell him they’re over the moon about seeing a comrade looking sharp in clothes that they, too, can wear. Most of the feedback, however, has been from people sick of being fat-shamed. Some are slavering over his body, sending nude photos, suggesting hookups and, in one case, requesting photos of his naked feet. (See: “ Good Morning America,” “Entertainment Tonight,” and British news media outlets galore.) More than 58,000 Instagram followers have bonded to the actor since he happened into modeling, making his debut online last September in the plus-size line of Target’s Mossimo collection. Miko and his “body positive” message has been over the top. And if his blue eyes and tattooed biceps look familiar, it’s because the response to Mr. Miko, 26, is the model of the moment: As the first (and so far, only) hunk signed with Brawn, a division for plus-size men that IMG started in March, he has a mandate to speak for Guys of Size longing to be au courant. Even in the go-see ensemble that he chose for this flaunt-it evening - jeans from Levis, jacket from Hickey Freeman and the white dress shirt he wore at his wedding - he looked more like the running back who stole your heart in high school than a high-profile clotheshorse.įor all of that, Mr.
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Miko’s waist is 40 inches, and though he keeps in shape by biking, he’s free of hard edges and sharp angles. Miko is hardly a mainstream customer for the designers whose looks flattered the catwalk crew (whose waists top out around 32 inches). Waists tapered into nothingness, and buttocks were platonically ideal.Īt 6-foot-6 and 275 pounds, the imposing Mr. Bare chests (paired with seemingly everything) were impossibly sculpted. If the outfits seemed otherworldly, so, too, did the models. (Lord & Taylor? Mais non! Saint Laurent.) Young men with determinedly blank facial expressions stalked down the runway in creations that included a slim Gucci suit whose floral print suggested Palm Beach chinoiserie a pinstripe Givenchy pant look tweaked with images of Christ and a long, white grandma cardigan with posies climbing up the front. With plimsolls instead of boots on the ground and only a bit of camo, it focused on the splashiest looks for the lads of summer. Staged in a low-lit hangar where white chairs flanked a red carpet, the runway show was the pièce de résistance.
Not that the guy stuff took center stage.
At the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on April 4, fashion-world movers like the designers Prabal Gurung, Thom Browne and Alexis Bittar circulated under missiles, air-kissed next to gun turrets and snapped selfies with sleek aircraft. This year, the backdrop for the annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares celebration, a buoyant benefit for L.G.B.T.
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