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" Tim Gunn is one of the most outspoken fashion personalities on television&amp;amp;#8212;he&amp;#x27;s currently starring in his 12th season of Project Runway&amp;amp;#8212;and this time around, he&amp;#x27;s tackling the size-ist fashion industry. Speaking to the Huffington Post last week about the state of the plus-size fashion market, Gunn pulls no punches about how completely appalled he is. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s rather devastating,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;ve never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it&amp;#x27;s simply appalling...if I were a size 18, I&amp;#x27;d throw myself right out the window. It&amp;#x27;s insulting what these designers do to these women.&amp;quot; To try to help expand fashion offerings for women over size 12 to 14, Gunn is actively encouraging contestants on Project Runway to consider creating clothes for the plus-size market. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve had my own moments in front of designers when I&amp;#x27;ve actually said, &amp;#x27;You know, there&amp;#x27;s a market here for expanding your work, and here it is,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;And frankly, there are two markets: The women who are larger than the 12, and then there are women who are petite. And most designers I talk to have absolutely no interest in addressing either of those populations, which I find repugnant.&amp;quot; While he concedes that making a broader spectrum of sizing isn&amp;#x27;t just a matter of making clothes larger or smaller&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s a matter of reconceiving things altogether,&amp;quot; he says&amp;amp;#8212;he argues that expanding size ranges is a realistic necessity. &amp;quot;There are so many models walking the runway who haven&amp;#x27;t even gone through puberty,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;This is not real-world.&amp;quot; For years, we&amp;#x27;ve heard people rally for better plus-size clothing lines and designs&amp;amp;#8212;but do you think that choices have improved? If you are size 12+, what are some of your favorite places to shop? Tell us your thoughts&amp;amp;#8212;and what you&amp;#x27;d like to see happen in the plus-size fashion marketplace&amp;amp;#8212;in the comments section, below! Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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