AN OXFORD fashion boutique has launched a search for a new model to prove that you do not have to be skinny to be fashionable.

Booty, in St Aldate’s, is on the hunt for a new face to launch the boutique’s own fashion label, and is calling for girls of all shapes and sizes to take part.

Boutique owner Louise Trueman said: “We stock a lot of high fashion and designer label clothes, and we know that sometimes people won’t come into the shop because they assume that they have to be a size six or eight to wear them.

“This is simply not the case at all. I am a size 12-14 and I wear the clothes from the shop. We thought it was about time to change their attitude.”

Booty’s search for a model is being run in conjunction with the Talent Oxford competition.

To find out more, email bootyoxford@live.co.uk or casting@langmg.com by the closing date of April 11.