The Statistics Tell a Complex Story The numbers paint a sobering picture of plus size representation in high fashion. 9 per ...

Americans’ beauty standards are constantly evolving, and are often reflected in the media and fluctuating demands for certain body-altering surgeries. Social media has often been criticized for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only recently have brands and designers begun casting plus-size models. But this community was thriving long before “inclusivity” entered the collective vocabulary. Many of us remember wanting America ...

Isabella Moore features in Cutting the Curve and says plus-size models like her are getting paid less because the general public wants to be skinny. Photo / Julie Zhu Growing up, plus-size model ...