'Soft Dramatic', 'Theatrical Romantic' and 'Flamboyant Natural' sound very much like a new range of fake eyelashes. In fact, they are types of women’s bodies under the style theory known as the Kibbe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kibbe body type scale “was developed as a tool to help people understand their natural beauty and to provide style ...

New York stylist and Kibbe Body Type Method founder David Kibbe calls the typical ‘hourglass figure’ and ‘pear-shape’ categories we’re used to “horrible information.” That’s why, in 1982, he designed ...

The answer to that question is complex and more than a bit confusing. That’s because the system aims to go beyond simplifying bodies down to different fruits, for example. Instead of purporting to ...

David Kibbe, an image consultant who got his start in the 1980s, has watched his body-typing system take off with a new, digitally native audience. By Mariah Kreutter David Kibbe is hardly surprised ...

A 22-year-old from the U.K. has revealed how she discovered why her "cute outfits always felt 'off.'" Ellie-Jean Royden is the founder of Body & Style, a personal style and fashion guidance platform.

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If you were asked to describe your body type, what would you say? You’d probably turn to words like 'curvy' or 'slim' or maybe, a fruit (pear, apple) or an object (cello?). What’s less likely is that ...