Karl Lagerfeld, who just a few months ago in October was mouthing off about how people prefer to look at “skinny models” has backtracked on his comments and contributed to V Magazine’s January/February 2010 Size Issue, featuring Dakota Fanning and Gabourey Sidibe on alternate covers.

Coco a Go-Go features burlesque dancer Miss Dirty Martini in Coco Chanel‘s Paris apartment as she poses in her curvy splendor wearing rosette nipple covers, Chanel temporary tattoo’s, and playful black fringe bra’s.

On display are heavy cleavage baring bra’s allowing  Miss Dirty Martini to flaunt full thighs, stomach rolls and love handles – things that would normally be airbrushed out on a high fashion magazine.

The Kaiser quite famously said in the October issue of German magazine Brigette: “No one wants to see curvy women.” He added, “You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.”

He also went on to say that the world of fashion is about “dreams and illusions” and called Brigitte‘s decision to feature real women instead of models “absurd.”

“Big, little, pint-size, plus-size – every body is beautiful. And this issue is out to prove it,” editor-in-chief of V magazine Stephen Gan said. After all, plus-size models are really just normal-size people deemed “plus” by fashion’s extreme standards.

V Magazine’s Size Issue will be on the newsstands everywhere January 14, 2010; vmagazine.com

Images courtesy of Models.com and V Magazine