On Season 16 of Project Runway, plus-size models are being used as regulars for the first time in the show’s 13-year run. The show’s models now range from size 2 to size 22. While this was a definite ...
While traditional standards of beauty are evolving, people still have the desire to change their bodies to look like someone else. The modeling industry has previously been accused of promoting ...
Fashion is taking diversity seriously. That’s what you can glean when you read the Fashion Spot’s latest diversity report, which took upon the gargantuan task of counting all the models of color, plus ...
The fashion industry's relationship with body diversity is like a bad breakup – it keeps promising change but goes back to old habits. 7 percent across 230 shows and presentations featuring 8,800 ...
Worldwide beauty standards have been a controversial topic of discussion for several years now. The representation of all shapes, sizes and skin tones has been difficult to integrate into the ...
In the past, you had to be a size 34, sport an extra flat stomach and a wasp waist to hope to be on the catwalk. The models all had millimeter measurements and imposed diets. Curves were not tolerated ...
Nike built its brand around the “just do it” brand of ultra-athleticism, complete with ads featuring muscular (and very lean) models. The brand isn’t known for being inclusive to all sizes, but it ...
Curve models Precious Lee, Alva Claire and Jill Kortleve made history last Friday as they walked the runway for Versace at Milan Fashion Week, being the first plus-size models cast by the luxury ...
Now that’s a stretch. An online fashion retailer claims to specialize in empowering clothes for curvier bodies but bizarrely uses ultra-thin models to demo their garments — by stretching them out to ...
Georgina Burke is sick of how plus-size women are depicted. The model — who is also plus-size and has modeled for brands like Torrid — told Elle that she doesn't like how the media has been portraying ...
We spend more time than we would like to admit scrolling through Instagram, so why not make that time more enjoyable by staring at beautiful, inspiring women who double as plus size models (in-between ...
When people talk about Black female models, they immediately think of the greats: Tyra Banks, Beverly Johnson and of course Naomi Campbell. How could they not? There is no denying these women paved ...