I love the mouth on this girl.
Below is a snippet from a recent gush-piece in the Times Online (UK.)
Can’t wait to hear the new songs too.
Now she’s a hit with the fashion pack, labels such as Dolce and Chanel are happy to knock up one-off versions of their designs — usually shown on the catwalk in a size six or eight — for Ditto to wear to shoots and parties. This hasn’t always endeared her to her well-covered sisters. “Some fat girl blogger was saying, ‘It’s cool that all these famous designers are making clothes for her, but they’re not going to make them for everyone.’ And the truth is, yes, they’re not going to make them for everyone. They make only a few pieces just to fit me,” she shrugs. “For the rest, I have to make it work my own way. Maybe it wasn’t supposed to go round my shoulders because it was a skirt, but that’s how I wear it.”
In March, Ditto cut a dash in the French capital, perching on a succession of little gold chairs to watch the catwalk collections from the front row. Mostly, she sat next to tiny, birdlike women such as Kate Moss or Audrey Tautou, before attending the roster of evening parties with minimal food and maximum bitchiness. How did you find the circus, I ask? Did you feel like the fat girl at the prom? “That I was going to crush Karl when I give him a hug?” she says, raising an eyebrow. “No, not at all. Well, I did, but I don’t care. I’m the only one there who looks like me. Everyone else just looks the same, so think about the joy of that.”
She’s the latest musician to launch a clothing capsule for a large retailer. Only because it’s Beth, it’s a line for the plus-size, British retailer Evans.
UPDATE: The New York Times ran a piece today (6/18/09) on more retailers efforts catering to plus-sized women. Our Miss Beth was front and center.
BETH DITTO was livid. Topshop, the fast-fashion chain, had approached Ms. Ditto, the outsize lead singer with the punk band Gossip, and a favorite mascot of the fashion world, to perform at its flagship store in London. Blowups of her heart-shaped face and rotund form would be on display.
But Ms. Ditto, who happily flaunts what the British like to call her “wobbly bits,” was having none of it. “I don’t think it’s fair to put my face somewhere where they would never let me in there to wear their clothes,” she complained on a blog. If the chain hoped to capitalize on her grooviness, she wrote, why not accord her the same status it does Kate Moss, and let her create a “big girl” line for Topshop.“Give me the job,” Ms. Ditto demanded. “I want to design.”
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