Stilettos, curves and corsets
June 15, 2007 
Natasha Bryson is fed up of bigger women wearing what look like shapeless sacks, which is why she is teaching ladies to accessorise with a corset or a belt in order to look more shapely.
Ms Bryson is the executive director of the Full-Figured Diva Academy (FFDA), an organisation that specialises in running workshops designed to teach larger ladies what to wear, how to plan an event and how to build their self-esteem.
The plus-size fashion guru told the Philadelphia City Paper: "Women don't have to wear these dresses that have no shape. You can wear the same things everyone else does. You just have to know how to put them together."
At FFDA's Stilettos & Curves Fashion Show, Ms Bryson will teach women how a garment such as a corset can boost their cleavage and their confidence.
On her catwalk there will be none of the tent-dresses, sacks or kaftans that bigger women are encouraged to wear. She says there will be "only really sexy, trendy outfits, paired with some of the greatest 3- and 4-inch pumps you've ever seen."
Ms Bryson admires the plus-size clothes created by celebrity lines such as Queen Latifah's Curvation and says more designers need to follow her lead: "The market is huge. ... I want to see someone make a beautiful, elegant gown that doesn't look like a box. That's not too much to ask," she concluded.
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