According to WWD, Melissa McCarthy is crossing an item off of her bucket list by signing with Gerard Guez’s Sunrise Brands (Superdry, American Rag, People's Liberation and Seven7 Jeans) to design a fashion line. The unnamed line will include clothing, accessories, and beauty products. The line is set to launch in Fall 2015.
About the line, McCarthy says she isn't doing just plus sizes: “I’m doing all sizes. It’s a
strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don’t, so why should
clothes?”
Was it MK who said Mama June looks like a thumb? Because I'm kind of getting that vibe with the picture on the left.
ReplyDeleteYup BR. And she does look like a thumb.
DeleteI am not being prejudice but I feel she has a following---overweight women. My friend dragged me to that awful Tammy movie she did and the theater was packed with large women who were hooting and hollering while I just rolled my eyes cause the movie was so so bad. Walking out the theater the general reaction I heard was "I cant wait to buy it on DVD --that the was THE BEST!"
ReplyDeleteand before you jump down my throat---that was just my personal observation...very strange....
Tammy meets Magic Mike: A Love Story. Now THAT would be something.
DeleteDid the theater serve food and wine Derek?
Not asking because of the size of the audience, just wondering because it seems like those are the only ones doing pretty well these days.
haha no but I am sure the concession stand did well that afternoon...
DeleteI'm with you Derek it makes me uncomfortable. I used to be a size 18 and I was never like, this is ok! It was just a horrible stage of an illness that I'm happy to be out of.
DeleteI find her funny most of the time, only saw maybe two movies but esp on snl a lot of her characters require her to be overweight for the laughs. That made me uncomfortable and then I remembered how much I love Chris Farley and now I'm confused. All I'm sure of is that I REALLY hope the blind about two overweight actresses making a pact not to fall into Hollywood stereotypes and lose weight was true.
Weight is a struggle but it should never be something you give up on.
I don't understand that Derek. Thin women would never follow an actress just because she's thin. I hate that mentality those women were portraying.
DeleteYou couldn't pay me to watch Tammy but she was hilarious in Bridesmaids.
She have a men's line too?
ReplyDeleteI hope she does a cologne....
DeleteUmm she said last year she was calling it Pearl. Maybe she changed her mind since then or her backers wanted something more unique that they can trademark but fwiw
ReplyDeleteFIT grads everywhere are rolling their eyes or trying to be on the design team. Just because you are.....Doesn't mean you should. I do applaud her philosophy though.
ReplyDeleteAnd I want to add that Seven7 jeans are amazing! Perfect stretch, perfect lack of gap in back, just perfect!
ReplyDeleteI like her and find her funny most of the time. I didn't see Tammy, but heard it was a dud. I agree though, that all the fat jokes/characters get old.
ReplyDeleteI like her and I think it is important for bigger women to have positive role models in the media
ReplyDeleteAlthough I wish she wasn't always portrayed as the weird sidekick
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ReplyDeleteDoes this ever get old?
I just want to know of even one person that has said to themselves, "Melissa McCarthy- her style is impeccable! I wish she could share with me her ideas on fashion!" But I guess NeNe "I'm rich" Leakes has her own line as well...
ReplyDeleteBig, small, tall or short, I don't care, but I would never want to dress in anything Melissa McCarthy designs or wears. The woman always looks wrong. I don't like her fashion or style.
ReplyDeleteSame as I wouldn't wear anything Paris Hilton wears or designs.
Um. No. She always looks horrible, sorry!! No.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all Melissa has recently lost 45 pounds - just happened to catch that channel surfing the other day. So presumably she is on a program that's working now.
ReplyDeleteI hope Melissa can pull it off. Do I like her fashion choices up to now, no not for the most part but MAYBE that is precisely why she is going to try and do her own line. Maybe she's had to make do with what is out there and she's fed up. We will judge the line if and when it happens because this is one expensive business to start up even if she works with a retailer.
BTW her hair looks hot on the ELLE cover. Just because that other look is on trend doesn't mean it would look good on everyone. This is what every woman eventually learns as she gets older.
To succeed however she will need creative and smart people to do the design, and those people are probably not coming from FIT. They are all competing for the same low level jobs at the same fashion houses where they all steal their ideas from each other or recycle old ideas from years past and most women would never buy those clothes. I marvel how some designers ever make any money and many of them do go out of business every year. Some of them manage to make skinny models look horrible.
@Tina, that's exactly WHY she looks dumpy on the red carpet. She's said before that none of the designers want anything to do with making a dress for her for any of the awards shows. I think I'm the only person around that didn't think bridesmaids was funny. I did enjoy the ridiculous cop movie she & Sandy Bullock did together (Heat?). Melissa IMO is just like Farley. She can be funny but if she was thin, would we be laughing as much? Doubt it.
DeleteMinPinGirl I hated Bridesmaids too. Unfunny and about 30-45 mins too long.
DeleteAdd me to the Hatin'-On-Bridesmaids Club. Simply awful in every way. I don't get the hype.
DeleteI didn't like MMcC on SNL or in any movie I've seen her in. (I wanted to just slap her in that one with Jason Bateman where she's a con artist. It was so bad I've clearly forgotten the title.) I've been catching up with "M&M" reruns lately, though, due to the new syndication, and I kinda like her now. Time will tell if I watch any of her new stuff, though.
Great. More pandering to the fatties so they can wear tents like it's the norm and avoid the gym and eating well.
ReplyDeleteWhy is making clothes for people of all different sizes pandering to their bad habits. Is making clothes size zero and lower pandering to anorexics and bulimics?
ReplyDeletejust because you have a platform doesn't mean you need to stand on it
ReplyDeletebut by all means share you're wisdom