{"id":6922,"date":"2012-02-24T10:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2012-02-24T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:50:59","slug":"sales-of-plus-size-mannequins-surge-following-adele%e2%80%99s-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/sales-of-plus-size-mannequins-surge-following-adele%e2%80%99s-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Of Plus-Size Mannequins Surge Following Adele\u2019s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6534\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/karl-lagerfeld-apologises-for-calling-award-winner-adele-%e2%80%9ctoo-fat%e2%80%9d\/adele-on-the-march-2012-edition-of-vogue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6534\" title=\"Adele covering the March 2012 edition of Vogue\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/02\/Adele-on-the-March-2012-edition-of-Vogue.jpg\" alt=\"Adele covering the March 2012 edition of Vogue\" width=\"450\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/talentmanagementblog\/2012\/02\/Adele-on-the-March-2012-edition-of-Vogue.jpg 450w, https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/talentmanagementblog\/2012\/02\/Adele-on-the-March-2012-edition-of-Vogue-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adele covering the March 2012 edition of Vogue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/karl-lagerfeld-apologises-for-calling-award-winner-adele-%e2%80%9ctoo-fat%e2%80%9d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Lagerfeld branded curvaceous singer and Vogue cover girl \u201ca little too fat\u201d <\/a>earlier this month, we all asked \u2018a little too fat for what exactly?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She sure wasn\u2019t too fat to win big at the Brit Awards, neither was she too fat to model for the cover of Vogue, and now, it seems, she\u2019s not too fat for the fashion retailers either.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRecent reports have revealed that high street retailers are buying plus-size mannequins as they finally start to catch on and embrace consumers with Adele-esque figures.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Telegraph, mannequin retailer Displaysense, which supplies some of the UK\u2019s biggest clothing chains, has reported a significant spike in plus-size mannequin orders over the last year \u2013 coinciding with Adele\u2019s growing mainstream success.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Moody, an executive at Displaysense, told the paper something that Talent Management quite agrees with &#8211; Lagerfeld\u2019s comments are out dated, pure and simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLagerfeld may want size 0 on his catwalk but the commercial viability of the growing plus-size clothing market is being seized by high street chains and independent retailers alike,\u201d he said. \u201cCurves are back and set to stay this spring-summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adele has since responded to Lagerfeld\u2019s comments, telling People magazine: \u201cI\u2019ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. 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