Overweight and Chic: Plus-Size Business Is Booming

It could be the great weight divide. While supermodels in glossy magazines seem to be getting skinnier, "real" American women have gotten plumper and more curvy, which has launched a new and booming market for plus-size fashion. In what many fashionistas called a bold move, Vogue featured the voluptuous singer Adele, showing her size-16 body, on the cover of its March issue. The cover's release came on the heels of legendary Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld's comments about Adele's weight. In...Full Story