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Justine Legault: Elle Québec cover (VIDEO)
Fans of lovely Canadian plus-size model Justine Legault will be delighted to learn that she will be appearing on the cover of Elle magazine, published in her native Québec, in the May 2013 issue.
The magazine has just released a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot as a teaser and a preview: I especially love Justine's look in the pink dress, as seen in the above thumbnail and from 0:56 onwards, which shows off her voluptuousness and suggests attractive fullness at her waist and hips. Here's the original page showing the video, run through Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/transla...ero_de_mai_2013 |
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Even though I can't understand a word of it, there is something about a beautiful woman speaking French that is absolutely intoxicating.
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Re: Justine Legault: Elle Québec cover (VIDEO)
Is size celebration having a renaissance?
Just hours after Katherine Roll releases a shoot that celebrates her opulent thighs, Elle Québec has posted Justine's cover for the May issue of the magazine. Not only is it extraordinary simply in the fact that the cover presents a plus-size model fronting a major, mainstream fashion magazine, but far from trying to present Mademoiselle Legault as a straight-size model and hiding her curviness, no, Elle boldly celebrates the most full-figured aspect of Justine's body: her luscious thighs. This is the most pro-curvy, most beautiful image Justine has ever shot. And it's a magazine cover! ![]() The magazine even retains a hint of dimpled flesh in the model's skin. This is akin to the kind of image that the Judgment of Paris would put on the cover of a magazine. I never imagined that a mainstream fashion publication would ever embrace size celebration so boldly. Finest magazine cover ever? I venture to say so. Incredible work by Justine. Here's the page at the Elle site where the cover preview can be found (run through Google Translate): http://translate.google.com/transla...ure%2Fa%2F36409 |
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At last, a full-size version of Justine's remarkable cover has appeared online. It still staggers belief that such a size-celebratory image actually fronts a mainstream fashion magazine. It seems like a cover from an alternative reality, from a world in which the timeless ideal of full-figured beauty had never been suppressed over the past century, but was still enshrined as the epitome of feminine attractiveness. ![]() Too often, the fashion industry today remains manacled by a straight-size aesthetic when it shoots plus-size models, and absurdly attempts to hide and disguise their most visible curves. Yet somehow, incredibly, Elle Quebec managed to free itself entirely of this curve-o-phobic thinking when producing this cover, and instead adopted a completely size-positive point of view, by highlighting Justine's most undeniably (and beautifully) plus-looking features: her full, womanly thighs. ![]() The issue also gives Justine's pink-dress image a page of its own, and while the tear sheet is certainly attractive, the video footage embedded earlier in this thread still offers a better glimpse of the attractive fullness at the model's waist and hips. ![]() The abbreviated dress does, however, show off Mademoiselle Legault's gorgeous legs, which exhibit a lovely shape, free of unattractive muscle tone, instead softly formed by natural fullness. ![]() For those whose command of the French language is up to it, Elle also includes a brief interview with Justine in this issue. You may click this (or any of the images in the current post) to view at a larger, more readable size. ![]() Bravo to Elle Québec from what is surely the most size-positive cover ever to appear on any mainstream fashion magazine, a cover worthy of Mode itself. And kudos to Justine for this stellar triumph. Her aristocratic beauty is so remarkable that anyone who sees this cover will never again be able to deny the superior beauty of the plus-size model. |
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On its Web site, Elle Quebec has now published a page with a backstage slideshow of the making of its historic cover. What's interesting is that the text reveals that there was no guarantee that the publication was going to produce such a size-celebratory cover. It shot Justine in a number of other looks -- all of which were attractive, but none nearly so pro-curvy as the cover choice.
Here's the original page, as run through a Google translation: http://translate.google.com/transla...t%2Fs%2F5303%2F The first caption confirms: Quote:
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Second look: ![]() ![]() ![]() Caption for the above photo: "The pro at work." ![]() Caption for the above photo: "Using a light wind gives a lot of volume to the hair." ![]() Caption: "This time, [stylist] Jay Forest uses a fan to effect movement at the bottom of the dress." ![]() Caption: "Look#4 - the little white dress." ![]() Caption: "The spray of water a must for wet hair that keeps this look #5." Frankly, I think Elle should have published an editorial with pictures of all five looks. However, there's no question that it chose by FAR the best look, and photo, for its cover. The magazine is even asking readers which selection they prefer: the current cover, or an alternative: ![]() Number 1 all the way! Other recent Elle covers with faux-plus models or celebrities failed, because the cover personages didn't look full-figured. In Elle Quebec's cover, Justine is unmistakably plus-size (and gorgeous), making it a perfect image. Oh, and by the way, here's a version of the cover photo with no text: ![]() |
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How thrilling! The Daily Mail, one of the two most-read newspapers in the U.K., just ran a story about Justine Legault's appearance on the cover of Elle Quebec.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...o=feeds-newsxml It comes with a splendid title ("The Thigh's the Limit!") and is an altogether positive and celebratory story. Quote:
I LOVE the fact that just as readers did here at The Judgment of Paris, the reporter singles out for praise the fact that the cover image bares and celebrates the most full-figured aspect of Justine's figure, her luscious thighs. The next paragraph reads expressly like JOP text, with its references to Justine's "soft" and "timeless" beauty: Quote:
How amazing that Justine actually uttered that last phrase, openly delighting in the generous appetite which has given her her beauty. How positive a statement this is, one which young girls will read and, in so doing, learn to be comfortable with their natural appetite and eat whatever they wish, without any stigma. Quote:
Bravo, bravo, bravo to the Daily Mail for a 100% pro-curvy article, as celebratory as the cover on which it reports. And kudos to Mademoiselle Legault for delivering such utterly perfect answers to the reporter's questions, and for making statements as size-celebratory as her images. |
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Justine's Elle Québec cover continues to attract press attention, which is a good thing in itself, but even better in the fact that the media coverage has been altogether uncommonly positive.
There's just something about the cover that brings out favourable responses in even neutral writers; which just confirms a point that the Judgment of Paris has always made: that timeless beauty, as embodied in gorgeous and genuinely full-figured models (not faux-plus frauds and not "real women" homeliness), can prompt a revaluation of aesthetic values. The Huffington Post, for example, has published not just one but two pieces devoted to Justine's cover. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/..._n_3207402.html Notice that the writer singles out for praise Justine's fair tresses, and especially the fact that the image expressly showcases the fullness of Justine's thighs. Finally, an end to media rubbish about "flaws" and "flattering clothing" (i.e., body-disguising). Everyone is in love with this cover because it unambiguously presents Justine as being plus-size (and beautiful) and highlights her fullest features: Quote:
The second HuffPo writer is just as favourable. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/0..._n_3209203.html She too can't help but enthuse over Justine's thighs and how affirmatively the cover presents them: Quote:
If anything, an article from The Gloss is even more affirmative. http://www.thegloss.com/2013/05/03/...e-quebec-cover/ This text is so good, it could have been penned by someone on this forum. Notice that the writer praises the fact that Justine's legs make it clear that all of this beauty could only belong to a plus-size model, and that no one could mistake Justine for a minus-size type: Quote:
The Fashion Spot, which runs a popular form for loves of underweight models and minus-size fashion, breaks new ground with a commendatory article of its own. http://www.thefashionspot.com/buzz-...-of-elle-quebec The text is quite sensual, actually: Quote:
Justine also gets a write-up at Radar Online and at the following site: http://www.celebitchy.com/295375/el...gault_gorgeous/ No writers can take their eyes off Justine's luscious thighs: Quote:
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It's as if, in seeing Justine, the press is taking a second look at classical beauty (which they have suppressed and denounced for decades) and realizing, "Goodness, full-figured femininity is breathtakingly lovely after all, and the timeless ideal is superior to modernist androgyny." |
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