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Full figured fashion week
Goodbye, size zero! Over 1,500 people are expected to attend Full-Figured Fashion Week, which starts today in New York.
A group of ladies dubbed "fatshionistas" hope the event will open retailers' minds to fashionable plus-size clothes. They say the industry assumes plus-size women only want their clothes to be comfortable and slimming, and that it hardly makes any attempts to design plus-size clothing that might not be those things, but is trendy. The Daily Beast talked to fatshionista Rhiannon Gammill, who writes the blog Manolo for the Big Girl.
“I'm fat, I have money. I'm more than willing to give it in quantity to the store who will supply me with beautifully made clothes that don't make me look like a hooker, a tranny, or someone's bingo-playing grandma from Duluth. I would love to see Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte, a big girl herself, do a ready-to-wear line that extends to the plus-sizes.”
Despite this growing visibility of fuller-figured fashion faces in the media, there is still a huge reluctance for the industry as a whole to shift its views. The credit crunch has caused many retailers stocking larger sizes to either increase costs for their ‘production’ or cut the lines all together. Let's hope things change at Fashion Week.
PLUS: Why are we paying more for plus-sized fashion?
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