Tess Holliday remembers 2019 as a "glorious" year for plus-size fashion and body positivity. The plus-size model and body activist walked the runway at New York Fashion Week. She'd been featured by ...
Model Karoline Bjørnelykke has revealed how she has been hired to portray plus-size women, even though she is slender. Casting agents encouraged her to stuff padding (or "a fat suit in pieces") ...
Beauty standards are forever changing but over the past few years, plus-sized models have asserted their place in the fashion industry. This woman was branded as "too fat" to fulfill her dream but the ...
Jorge Fuller shares his journey as a plus-size Black male model, changing Kansas City’s fashion with body positivity and inspiring self-expression. Jerome Hutchinson Editor's Note: This interview is ...
A plus-size model has revealed that she was previously asked to wear padding to model larger clothes than her real size because companies wanted "the neck and the face to look really slim and sharp." ...
The numbers paint a sobering picture of plus size representation in high fashion. 9 per cent were straight-size (US 0-4) during the Spring/Summer 2025 season. While these figures might seem ...
Your Instagram feed may be more diverse than ever, thanks to the host of plus-size babes using their platforms to foster a celebratory and inclusive online community, but the fashion world still has a ...
Journalist and model Jessica Leahy wonders why curvy models are copping so much criticism. As a journalist who has spent much of my youth employed as a “plus size model”, the terms of my job used to ...
The runway has long catered to a waifish ideals. Across 219 shows in New York, London, Paris, and Milan, Vogue Business reported that only 17 brands featured plus-size models—a statistic that reflects ...