Recently Dakin was talking to a major department store retailer who told him designers didn’t invest much in larger clothing because “women are always trying to get down a size.” All women regardless of their size are influenced by the same culture and want the same trends and the same type of clothing. “It’s controlled by this idea that she should cover up her body. “There’s a gap in understanding that a woman with my body type does want to wear mini skirts, mini dresses, and sheer fabrics,” she says. Nicolette Mason, who runs a plus-size fashion blog and is a columnist and contributing editor at Marie Claire, adds that there’s also an antiquated point of view out there that larger women don’t want to wear the same kind of clothes that they see on the runway or in fashion magazines. We now think we have to mold our bodies to fit into these clothes.” “In fashion, it’s all about the skinnier the better, and then you hear things like, ‘Well, we don’t want to destroy the integrity of the clothes,’” he says. Part of the reticence about going bigger with these lines is that designers want to keep their clothing aspirational-thinking that, stylist Christopher Campbell points out, is a strange way of looking at something we’re supposed to wear. Michael prides himself on being able to dress women of all shapes and sizes, and making them feel and look good.” “We agree that it’s a beautiful line,” the company said in a statement to Yahoo Style, “and we do send for plus-size opportunities when we have the appropriate samples and are approached. In particular, stylists and models say that the Michael line by Michael Kors, which launched in 2007, is beautifully done, but the company doesn’t promote it. Some do have plus-size lines, like Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren, but they keep these offerings quiet. “I’d come in and be like, ‘Oh my god, I love this,’ and they wouldn’t have it in my size,” she says. Burke used to have a Barney’s New York salesperson who’d call her to rush over when they had bigger sizes in stock.
For the most part, designers don’t make clothes larger than a size 12 (and stores tend to order fewer of the larger sizes as well). Still, in high-end fashion, the sizes are remain mostly on the small side. “Before, in the plus-sized modeling community, the girls rarely wanted the clothes they were modeling, and now they’re posting them on Instagram at the shoot.” “They’re making clothes that a size 2 or 4 would wear,” says Gary Dakin, who runs the modeling agency JAG, which represents only women size 6 and up. Many fast-fashion stores, like H&M, Forever 21, Wet Seal, and Mango, also have new plus-size lines. If they did, they’d see that the average woman today wears a size 14 (in 1985, she wore a size 8) and that there are more options than ever before for larger clothing that’s not muted and shapeless, from places like Torrid or the plus-sized e-tailer Eloquii. “There are people who are so into fashion they can’t open their eyes.” “I was like, ‘I earn money off my size, so listen you stupid little girl…’” she says. She knew these jeans would fit - she already had a few pairs - and demanded them. Designer pieces in her size, however, can be as hard to find as non-judgmental salespeople. When she asked for the pair she wanted, the salesperson said, “What? No, those aren’t going to fit you.”īurke is the first plus-size model to have a major contract in years (she’s the face of Torrid, a retail chain known for trendy plus-size clothing), and a tireless, enthusiastic shopper. Recently Georgina Burke, a 24-year-old plus-size model who regularly wears Celine, Helmut Lang, Lanvin, and Givenchy, went into a designer shop to try on some jeans.
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