Mark Fast is making waves at London Fashion Week, which launched this past Friday and just hit its quarter-of-a-century anniversary mark. But, it's not for Fast's intricately constructed, especially body conscious knits for Spring 2010 that have the fashion set up-in-arms. It's for the size 12 and 14 models that paraded the dresses in question down Fast's runway this weekend. While the move is far from extreme (especially given the fact that plus-size model Crystal Renn recently launched her personal tale of weight struggles to much acclaim, not to mention Glamour's featuring of a nude, curvaceous Lizzi Miller has earned the rag countless fans), according to London's Daily Mail, "when [Fast] told his design team that his figure-hugging outfits would be paraded down the runway by size 12 and 14 models, two of his people were apparently so angry they quit."

"Fast, a Canadian, has also been involved in the photographic exhibition All Walks Beyond The Catwalk, which features models aged 18 to 65 and sized eight to 16 wearing clothes created by the young London designer," adds the Daily Mail. Fast said that his intention in introducing larger models on his runway was to prove that heavier women can wear his designs, and, in some cases, look better than stick-thin models in them. And, despite a fair bit of controversy from industry alumnae with emaciated visions of what beauty and style are, Fast seems to have done just that. Hopefully he's not the last.