Growing up, Sayeeda Chowdhury, 24, never thought of herself as an athlete. She developed an aversion to the gym young, when classmates stared at the “Muslim girl modifications” to her PE uniform. “I hoped I could find the courage to go to the cardio room one day, but never imagined going into the weight room…
Read moreJill Soloway is under construction. This is true both literally—Soloway’s house, in the Los Feliz hills of Los Angeles, smells faintly of sawdust and has caution tape ringed around the banister—and in a deeper sense: The writer and director recently came out as gender nonbinary, meaning Soloway doesn’t identify as a woman or a man…
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Though it was only last September that he introduced size diversity onto his runways, Christian Siriano has long been praised for his inclusive approach to fashion—both in terms of the women he dresses and in how he runs his business. Since his Spring 2017 show, which featured five plus-size models among the lineup, the designer…
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