Salon.com > Erica Kennedy http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 09:17:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Gabourey Sidibe’s Oscar dress mess http://www.salon.com/2010/03/07/gabourey_sidibe_oscars_open2010/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/07/gabourey_sidibe_oscars_open2010/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/07/gabourey_sidibe_oscars_open2010 So last week I read this widely reblogged USA Today article in which Gabourey Sidibe's stylist, Linda Medvene (who?), proclaimed that "everyone" wanted to dress Gabby for the Oscars and then went on to name some lesser known designers like Kevan Hall.

Now if you had read this on USA Today's site and not on another blog that was linking to it, you would have noted, as I did, that they felt the need to put "full-sized" in quotes -- "Designers vie to dress 'full-sized' Gabourey Sidibe" --  like it's such a derogatory thing to say about a woman that they needed to soften the blow with ... well, kinda.

She IS full-sized, mofos. She's not ashamed of it. Stop trying to be ashamed for her! DAMN.

But this Linda Medvene stylist person did also proclaim that they had decided to go with Marchesa, a house known for the fab dresses they do for all the A-list actresses.

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