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Huffington Post's Marissa Bronfman interviews Toronto fashion designer (and Project Runway Canada contestant) Jessica Biffi on "her entry into the Canadian fashion industry, designing for real women and her big plans for a bright future". An excerpt:
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There's pressure for everyone in the fashion industry, not just models, to be quite slim. Is this something you grapple with?
There is pressure and I think I'm one of the few actual plus-size designers that's designing plus-size and regular lines. It's the beauty industry, it's the fashion industry, there's always been that pressure to look good and be a certain way. I like that the industry's opening up a little more and accepting that there are different body types and that everyone wants to be fashionable and be represented on the runway and be presented in the magazines because the woman that buys the magazine is not a size 2 model! The women buying the magazines want to be represented and be fashionable as well so I think it's about time that the industry has kind of opened up a little bit."
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