Video ID: 20140913-008 <br /> <br />M/S Model walking down catwalk <br />M/S Model walking down catwalk <br />SOT, Uptown Fashion Week attendee (English): "Two-thirds of the population is a size 14 or larger. Someone has to dress us, we want to look nice and pretty too. So how do you have a fashion week and don't include the majority? That's ridiculous. So I think this is really good what the producers are doing, whether they know it or not, they're lighting a fire." <br />M/S Model walking down catwalk <br />SOT, Uptown Fashion Week attendee (English): "We're here, we're not going anywhere and if you look around everyone is getting bigger, they're not getting smaller. Someone has to dress these women and it should be about money, cause there's a lot of money to be made in this segment of the population." <br />M/S Model walking down catwalk <br />W/S Uptown Fashion week banner <br />SOT, Plus-sized model (English): "The vast majority of people are plus-sized, I mean, for better and for worse we need plus-size events because there's plus-sized people. It's actually pretty simple and the part of the fashion industry that doesn't get it, they're losing money." <br />W/S Lobby <br />M/S Designers and models posing <br /> <br />SCRIPT <br /> <br />Plus-size models dressed in haute couture and contemporary styles graced the NYC Uptown Fashion Week (NYUFW) catwalk at United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights for the first time on Friday. <br /> <br />Models and attendees referred to the vast majority of the population being plus-sized, stressing the lucrative aspect of embracing the fuller figures in the fashion industry. <br /> <br />Now in its fourth year, NYUFW coincides with New York Fashion Week (NYFW) but has set itself apart this year by opening the floor to plus-size models. <br /> <br /> <br />Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly <br />Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly <br />LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/c/Ruptly <br />Google Plus: http://google.com/+RuptlyTV <br />Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Ruptly <br />YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RuptlyTV <br />DailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/ruptly <br />Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv
