Since starting his styling business, David Kibbe has typed over 35k people with his Body Type Method. Ahead, Kibbe and TikToker Gabrielle Arruda break down each style.

A “Kibbe type” refers to the style system developed by image consultant David Kibbe in the 1980s. Decades later, Kibbe has returned with a new book.

Dramatic. Classic. Natural. Gamine. Romantic. In 1987, image consultant David Kibbe created a system to determine the shape of a woman’s body. This system has gone viral on TikTok.

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. Skip to content Skip to site index Style ...

He outlined five Kibbe ‘type families’ in the book: Dramatic, Natural, Classic, Gamine, and Romantic. Within these families are 13 more detailed sub-categories, from Flamboyant Natural to ...

The image references provided, too, are mostly of thin, white female celebrities. Kibbe converts, however, believe that these problematic aspects don’t necessarily negate the system’s helpfulness.

'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 ...

What are the 13 Kibbe body type categories? Dramatic: Characterized by a long vertical line, being tall and angular and having a bony structure. Soft Dramatic: A blended type with a long vertical line ...

dramatic classic Courteney Cox (pictured) has a dramatic classic body type, which means your bust, waist and hips are in proportion, with average to long legs and arms CELEBRITY EXAMPLES: Jill ...

'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 ...