I love the idea of plus size magazines. It's one of the main reasons I wanted to become a plus sized model in the first place. It felt so good to see someone around my size in a cool magazine. I think it could've been a Figure Magazine too! I'm not sure though. There definetly should be like five or more plus magazines at the store like you said Olga. There are so many teen and all the other what not magazines that arn't very supportive of our curvy selves. So, yea, I definetly want to see more stuff out there about woman like us. Self esteem might go down a bit for a girl reading one of them.

I think the reason why MODE and GRACE folded was because the clothes and products they featured were too expensive for most people which meant that their advertisers such as Marina Rinaldi was never going to see a profit from their advertising. Thus, it became a revolving door with the magazine ultimately losing in the end. FIGURE is going to survive because it is published by the owners of Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug and Catherines and feature clothes that are affordable. Though I detest the quality of Fashion Bug's clothes and Catherine's stuff makes me look matronly, I do purchase the magazine from time to time to see what Lane Bryant is featuring. If the next plus sized fashion magazine had a balanced mix of high fashion (read as expensive) and affordable clothing, I think advertisers would see a return on their investment and people would continue to purchase the magazine.

Great insight!!!

My biggest problem with Grace was two-fold.

1. it wanted to be something that the industry could not maintain. It wanted to be Vanity Fair or Glamour. And the plus size world does not have the fashion week/celebrity designers/couture/hollywood that one needs to make a magazine like that. Plus size women celebrities are far and few between and just as you start celebrating them, they get smaller Smiler so it's got to be about every day women. Everyday women who might be extraordinary in lots of ways but they're not famous. Fame is not the only way to validity or beauty.

2. the clothing in much of Grace only went up to a size 16 or 18. They'd create an amazing shoot but then you'd look in the back of the magazine and listing after listing explained how that item went up to a XL or a 16. That got really old really fast. Not to mention the diminishing models moving from size 20 towards a 16 or 14.

To tell you the truth the best magazine I've seen out there is Figure, and yes it's a magalog, but it's offering something we can put our hands on in more than one way.

How about a plus size LUCKY magazine? I'd definitely buy that!

Excellent Feedback! Thank you :-)