First ever fashion show of models with curves

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Dec 24 2013 | 11:19 PM IST
In the first ever show to celebrae the curvaceous bodies of Indian women, with actors like Sonakshi Sinha grabbing audience eye-balls, buxom-bodied models walked the ramp in the city with a popular Tollywood singer-actor turning as show-stopper.
"It is time we get real time. We get celebrating our curves. The Bengali women are generally plump and no reason for them to feel awakward about their clothes, which need not be salwars and sareers only.. If anorexic can be the 'in' thing, so be the other ones," designer Devipriya Guha, initiator of the whole event, said.
"If girls can get over the sense of discomfort over their bodies,and look confident then they will look the perfect diva. Struggling to become size zero is passe in Indian situation," singer Rimita Mukherjee, present at the show, said.
Jojo, who named Rekha, Dimple Kapadia as the epitome of curvaceous Indian women and heroines said being a character actor it doesn't matter if you don't have a size zero body in Tollywood though the heroines are now increasingly striving to look slimmer.
The first ever fashion show of plus sized was held at x n y chromosome.
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First Published: Dec 24 2013 | 11:19 PM IST

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