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Eloquii Is Collaborating With Jason Wu on a Fall 2018 Collection

Over the past few years, plus-size retailer Eloquii has tapped brands like Stone Fox Bridal and Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James as design collaborators, to introduce their popular styles to a broader, size 14-and-up audience. And for Fall 2018, it’s adding another impressive name to its roster, and it’s most high-fashion partner to date: Jason Wu.

Wu is a favorite of celebrities like Karlie Kloss, Diane Kruger, and Lily Aldridge. The Taiwanese-Canadian designer, perhaps best known for his evening wear, gained worldwide recognition for dressing First Lady Michelle Obama for the 2009 Inauguration Ball, and has even outfitted our very own American Duchess.) This collaboration would mark his first dedicated plus-size collection.

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“We love Jason Wu’s dedication to designing beautiful clothes for women that celebrate their strength and sensuality,” Jodi Arnold, Eloquii’s creative director, tells Glamour. “With this collection, the Jason Wu brand brings glamorous sensibility paired with their distinctive feminine design style. Jason has always been dedicated to designing beautiful clothing for women that celebrates their form, so working with Jason to bring his aesthetic to our customer has been an exciting experience.”

Of Eloquii’s designer collaborations, Arnold explains that the retailer “always [looks] to continue to provide innovative fashion for our customer and have an understanding that style speaks to multiple aesthetics to which we like to reflect through our partnerships and range of collections. We could not be more excited to bring his aesthetic to our customer.”

Not much information about Eloquii x Jason Wu is available—only that it’s set to be released some time this fall. The retailer did release a 15-second teaser, which shows the designer sketching what’s presumably a look from the capsule: a formfitting, long-sleeved back dress with a sweetheart neckline. Interested parties can sign up for updates on the collaboration on Eloquii’s website.

Though Wu hasn’t issued a comment on this collection or his plans to expand the sizing of his namesake line, these types of collaborations have proven to be a first step for some designers towards growing their own offerings: Lane Bryant partnered with Christian Siriano in 2016 and Prabal Gurung in 2017—and both designers have since launched extended sizes in their main lines and cast body-diverse models in their runway shows. (In June, Siriano said adding plus sizes tripled his business.) Here’s hoping to see more collections like this from beloved industry figures, like Wu.

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Brianna Wu Faced Down the Alt-Right and Now She's Running for Congress

The #Gamergate cyberattack against Brianna Wu, in which an Internet mob terrorized the software engineer after she spoke out against sexism and misogyny in the gaming industry, was tactically elegant in its launch and spectacularly cruel in its delivery. At its height in 2014, she saw her home address and personal information scrawled across the Web, and received more than 180 death threats across her social media accounts. Among the most vile were promises to rape her with military-grade weapons. Wu knows that threats like these led some women to quit the business and likely discouraged many others from entering altogether. But she continued to speak out.

Now the 40-year-old video game developer is launching herself into a different kind of firestorm: She’s running for Congress in Massachusetts’ Eighth District on a platform crafted, in part, from her experience facing off against white-supremacist groups, which, she notes, have been against not only women gamers but also public policies that benefit anyone not white, heterosexual, and male. Her goal: economic and political parity for women, LGBTQ Americans, people of color, and the working poor. “All these forces are tied together,” Wu told Glamour from her headquarters in Walpole. “The system is not working for any of them.”

The idea that the system is broken has motivated thousands of women to launch political campaigns; 11,000 have told She Should Run, a nonpartisan group that offers resources to women interested in seeking office, that they are actively planning to run. Founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro says this new crop of talent is “sick of not having their voices and perspectives represented” and recognizes “the impact they can make at all levels of government.”

Wu, a self-taught engineer who started programming at age eight and took university classes at 14, is planning a campaign that’s social-media-savvy and based in door-to-door canvassing. She’ll need every tool in her arsenal to pull off a Democratic primary win against incumbent Stephen Lynch, who’s heavily backed by the state’s party. (“I see a Democratic party that’s not standing up for us,” she says.) If elected, she pledges, “my first mission is to make investments in the economy to help people just be able to live.” Also on the docket: cybersecurity legislation to protect online privacy.

Wu’s liberal convictions may be surprising given her roots in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she grew up in a conservative household with a steady diet of Fox News and, she says, regularly heard conversations disparaging people of color and Jews. She got her first political experience interning for former U.S. Senator Trent Lott (R–Miss.), but in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, when the Bush administration declared war on Iraq, she felt she was on the wrong side.

“I haven’t talked to my family since I went home with a ‘John Kerry for President’ bumper sticker on my car,” Wu says. “It hurts me every single day.” But she refuses to keep her mouth shut and her head down, especially after seeing white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Boston in August. The rallies, she says, “just made me double down.”

Wu knows that stepping into politics could make her a target again. “Of course there’s fear,” she says. “But ultimately, I am an American, and I love this country. I can live with knowing that running for office puts my life in danger. What I can’t live with is doing nothing.”

Know a woman who’d be a great leader? Or want to run yourself? Go to emilyslist.org, sheshouldrun.org, or maggieslist.org.

This article originally appeared in the November 2017 issue.

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