American Apparel Snubs Contest Winner

Says Nancy Upton didn't enter plus-sized model search in good faith

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American Apparel is throwing some weight around.

The hipster fashion house concluded a plus-size model search titled "The Next Big Thing" last week but is refusing to grant a contract to the top vote-getter, Dallas student Nancy Upton.

The sticking point? Upton, 24, had taken offense to the company’s tone. "I thought it was tacky," she told Adweek. So she entered the contest with a series of increasingly ridiculous and satirical-yet-sexy photos. 

"I took that tone of theirs—'Hey fat people, you can play too'—and used it as an inspiration for my photos," she said.

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