Summer Fashion Design: You Don’t Have to Look Like Paris Hilton to Look Good

by Fran Walker
fran.walker@fashiondesignschoolreview.com
Fashion School Review Columnist

Summer fashion design is big business. Unfortunately, it can also be a big headache (or heartache) for those women who don’t feel confident revealing their bodies. Most of us will never look like Paris Hilton, but there are plenty of fashion designers willing to make the ordinary woman look good on the beach. Your future career in fashion could make you one of them.

Summer Fashion Design Cannot Ignore the Fuller Figure

Most of us could not hope to look like Paris Hilton in her new black swimsuit (especially if we eat one of those big burgers). Today’s fashion designers need to realize that summer fashion design should be for everyone - large or small. The image of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in her bikini in the first James Bond film was recently the most erotic movie scene of all time. If that isn’t a confirmation of how sexy a fit but fuller figure can be, I don’t know what is.

The truth is, that while the media and the runways persist in holding up gaunt bodies as a sign of “perfection,” most of us prefer a little flesh on ourselves and those we love. Surveys chart a 4% rise in body weight in western women over the last twenty years. .

Liz Hurley’s New Career in Fashion - Beach Fashion for Everyone

In the summer, on the beach, a bikini is perfect for accentuating a curvaceous figure. And, if you feel like covering those thighs, they look great with a wrap-around skirt.

Liz Hurley forsook her more curvaceous figure ten years ago, but happily her new range of bikini designs make the best of the ordinary figure. Tops and bottoms are sold separately, allowing for women’s differing sizes and shapes, and there is a wide range of options to make the best of your best bits.

Bikinis come in all colors, patterns and shapes - just like women. If you are a talented would-be fashion designer interested in beach and summer fashion, you should remember this fact when you start you career in fashion.

Sources:

www.bbc.co.uk
www.prospects.ac.uk
www.fashion.arts.ac.uk

About the Author

Fran Walker is a freelance writer, editor and researcher specializing in educational, health, safety and domestic issues. Previously, she spent five years in marketing in the self-help, health and health and safety sectors before leaving to start a family. She now edits and writes content for the U.K. Health and Safety Executive. Fran graduated in 1993 with a degree in English Literature.

Posted on October 3, 2005 at 05:24 PM