Fashion brands are cashing in on a pig ahead of the lucrative Christmas trade period.
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Miss Piggy of The Muppets fame is set to become the hottest commodity of the fashion industry thanks to her new film role.
![American designer Zac Posen has created 12 costumes for the stylish swine as she prepares to reprise her role as Kermit the Frog's love interest. Photo: Courtesy of Disney American designer Zac Posen has created 12 costumes for the stylish swine as she prepares to reprise her role as Kermit the Frog's love interest. Photo: Courtesy of Disney](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/c642ba3f-6a10-4ead-ae69-ebc65c8d889a.jpg/r0_0_729_488_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
The blonde-haired, pink skinned diva will return to the big screen late November in the upcoming film The Muppets, where she will star as the plus-size editor of Vogue Paris.
As well as having a wardrobe overflowing with shoes designed by Christian Louboutin, American designer Zac Posen has created 12 costumes for the stylish swine as she prepares to reprise her role as Kermit the Frog's love interest.
![Cosmetics giant M.A.C seized the opportunity to collaborate with Miss Piggy. Cosmetics giant M.A.C seized the opportunity to collaborate with Miss Piggy.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/2b9cf0b6-75a1-4f01-a076-2aacedc4aef2.jpg/r0_0_729_900_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
"It's the role I was born to play," states her character biography.
"Moi plays a high-powered, confident, charismatic, gorgeous, scene-stealing star that saves the day and wins her frog's heart," she continued.
While her other co-stars, Jason Segal and Amy Adams, prepare to share the red carpet and publicity trail with the puppets and their handlers, Miss Piggy has raised the bar of PR with a new endorsement deal.
She will be the new face of M.A.C Cosmetics in November.
The cosmetics giant seized the opportunity to collaborate with Miss Piggy, in which she sports an edgy look for an exclusive line.
"Icon. Actress. Supermodel. Chanteuse. Muse. Frog-o-phile. Cinema and television superstar nonpareil," the advertisement outlined.
She will also star as a guest judge on Project Runway All Stars in the US, which will see memorable contestants from all nine seasons of the popular modelling TV franchise face-off in the name of fashion.
Even 37 years after her Hollywood debut, academics believe that the character of Miss Piggy continues to be popular because of her flightiness and over-the-top flamboyance.
"There's this ongoing ambiguity, should we see Miss Piggy as the attractive creature she is convinced she is? Or should we see her as a pig that has a misguided fantasy that she is attractive?" Curtin University Professor of Cultural Studies Jon Stratton said.
"She is laughed at for her fantasy and her inability to see what she really is – a pig - while people sympathise with her as a passionate creature whose desire and love [for Kermit the Frog] is not reciprocated, and they empathise as she is a creature trying to make the most of her charms."
Professor Stratton believes it is her love life that is the most enduring to modern day audiences and corporate executives.
"Miss Piggy is lovelorn. Kermit doesn't find her attractive in the least. Which raises questions, why not? Is it because she is a pig? Or because he just doesn't go for her style?"
The Muppets is scheduled for release in the US in November and follows Kermit and Co's quest to save the Muppet Theatre which is at risk of being torn down by greedy oil magnate Tex Richman.
The Australian release date has not been confirmed.