Victoria’s Secret is making a choice on how they want their brand to be perceived and it is as one which equates being thin with being beautiful. Victoria’s Secret is synonymous with sexy for many people and while the company is actively featuring more Black and Brown models for their upcoming annual fashion show, the...
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8 Designers Bringing Change for Good to NYFW
When Tim Gunn released his scathing takedown of the fashion industry’s lack of size diversity the Washington Post last week, surely many fashion fans held the same assumptions he did: this year’s New York Fashion Week (NYFW) designers would largely stick to the old norms of Euro-centric size-0 models, and the fashion industry’s narrow focus would continue as...
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Plus-Size Ally Christian Siriano Brings Real Diversity to New York Fashion Week
Fashion designer Christian Siriano is doing his part to help usher in a body-positive style renaissance. Christian Siriano casually slipped five plus-size models in his New York Fashion Week runway show this week. Not only that, he also cast models of varying races and ethnicities. While this sounds like it should be the norm (and it truly...