And Comfort was born out of a deeply personal experience: Karine Hsu wanted to make clothes her mom could wear, after seeing the lack of options for her in the mainstream market. After working with several plus-size fashion brands at a financial firm in San Francisco, she realized the lack of quality clothing in extended…
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Though Ashley Nell Tipton won season 14 of Project Runway back in 2015 and later designed a plus-size line in partnership with JCPenney, today marks the first time she’s putting out clothing into the world that she 100 percent believes in. “With the other collections, I was designing for other people’s customers,” Nell Tipton tells…
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If you could design three pieces that you wish you had in your closet, but can never find, what would they be? That’s the question that Universal Standard asked actress Danielle Brooks before collaborating with her on a three-piece capsule collection, which launches today. The plus-size brand used the same concept when it collaborated with…
Read moreShe’s shot some seriously gorgeous pics for high-profile brands, but model Tess Holliday has also unfortunately had to deal with an unfair share of trolls in this Twitter age. She’s clapped back at online haters who accuse her of living an unhealthy lifestyle, and she’s even boycotted Uber because of an incident where a driver…
Read moreThere were two pinnacle scenes in the first season of This Is Us: the close-up shot of Milo Ventimiglia’s butt—which broke the Internet for obvious reasons—and the moment where Kate Pearson, played brilliantly by Chrissy Metz, stepped on the scale and weighed herself, completely naked. It’s a scene that touched millions of viewers for its vulnerability…
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This season, New York Fashion Week was a revolutionary one for size diversity: Overall, Glamour counted 208 appearances by models above sample size—a number largely inflated by the presence of three major plus-size brands. Canadian retailer Addition Elle debuted its latest collaboration with Ashley Graham, as well as a capsule with model Jordyn Woods at…
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