Torrid's Models Torrid is a chain store owned by Hot Topic According to the company, their goal is to provide fashionable clothes for plus-size women and teenage girls.
Torrid uses both professional plus-size models and charismatic amateurs who want to break into the modeling business in its advertising circulars and online catalog images. Several times a year representatives conduct model searches around the US in shopping malls to find new talent.
Torrid sources models that truly represent their desired customer base of young, trendy full-figured women.
Such women include 2007 "American Idol"winner Jordin Sparks whom Torrid discovered during a model search in Arizona, plus-size model and actress Christina Schmidt, and plus-size supermodel Crystall Renn, who has appeared in Torrid advertisements in Rolling Stone and People magazines.
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