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Terminally over-sized fashion magazine V, which put out an all-black-model issue this year, will be devoting itself to plus-size models in January.

“Big, little, pint-size, plus-size — every body is beautiful. And this issue is out to prove it,” V editor Stephen Gan told the Cut.

The only confirmed model so far is Crystal Renn, who would be considered “normal sized” in the real world. And my thinking is that the other models will follow suit: they will be sizes 8 through 10, with perfectly intact curves.

The usual suspects have shot the girls — Terry Richardson, Bruce Weber, etc. But one photographer completely alarmed me: the famously fat-loathing Karl Lagerfeld (the formerly obese designer has so many issues with weight, he bought a house in Vermont to house them.)  Especially given his recent comment in Focus magazine: “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.”

And now he’s on board to shoot a pictorial? I’m guessing it’s of some of the “pint-size” gals Gan spoke of.

Uncle Karl aside, I applaud any efforts made by the fashion industry to include a wider range of sizes in their model stable – even if it often feels gimmicky. Jane magazine was really the first to do it, back when Jane Pratt was editor (she shot size-10/12 Sophie Dahl in office attire and didn’t even make a big deal about it.)

The ball has been rolling down the hill slowly since then — Dahl booked a Dior campaign and models Kate Dillon and Carrie Otis gained weight and got rich. And this year, style-setter Katie Grand put zaftig Beth Ditto on the cover of Love, naked.

But it seems we’re miles away from changing up the body sizes on the runways — even when the clothes call for more meat. How much sexier would those Marc Jacobs vintage undies (above) have looked on a girl with Marilyn Monroe’s proportions?