Finally, models who look like real women! It used to be that a required qualification for all female models was skinniness that bordered on skeletal. And yeah they may look good on camera, but how ...

The numbers paint a sobering picture of plus size representation in high fashion. 9 per cent were straight-size (US 0-4) during the Spring/Summer 2025 season. While these figures might seem ...

Alicia Johnson is a 62-year-old author and model signed to Ford Models—an elite agency that has been home to Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Brooke Shields. She’s the only model at Ford in both ...

A reader, discouraged by the perpetuation of outdated beauty standards in the fashion industry, wonders if we will ever see genuine inclusivity in fashion models. By Vanessa Friedman I’d heard there ...

Melissa Owens Miller, known professionally as Emme, is an American plus-size model, social reformer and body image advocate. Emme gained worldwide fame as the first full-figured model chosen for ...

Let’s be clear: Black women have always set the standard in the fashion and beauty industries. From the regal gold adornments of our African ancestors to the street style of the B-Girls of Brooklyn ...

Despite years of progress and loud calls for inclusivity, the body-positivity movement is undeniably losing momentum. A renewed cultural obsession with weight loss and shrinking bodies has dragged ...

Kate Zigrang had trouble finding clothing as a child and young adult. Zigrang, who is 6’1" and said she weighs about 330 pounds, was always relegated to the back of the store or a dark second floor of ...