If you love fashion, you may have noticed a decline in body positivity on runways and in ad campaigns, and a return to the aesthetic of heroin chic, or even ketamine chic. And there’s nothing like numbers to try to confirm and quantify an impression. This is what just came out Fashion business regarding the latter fashion monththat is, the sequence of fashion weeks of the largest Western fashion capitals (New York, London, Milan, then Paris). For the spring-summer 2024 season, which just took place in September-October 2023, the professional media therefore analyzed almost 10,000 looks, and the results turn out to be particularly poor…
Spring-Summer Fashion Week 2024: 0.9% of plus size models
According to the last one Dimensional inclusion report From Fashion business, out of 9,584 looks distributed in 230 fashion shows and presentations between New York, London, Milan and Paris, only 0.9% of the models were notable as plus sizei.e. above and including French size 46 (i.e. size 18 in the UK or 14 in the US), and 3.9% of models were size medium (medium size) according to the modeling criteria (i.e. a 38 FR, 6 US or 10 UK). The rest of the models, 95.2%, therefore wore a maximum of a French size 36. Does this seem depressing to you? Tell yourself it’s already more diverse than the fashion month previous, where 95.6% of the looks were a size 36 or less…
And it is above all thanks to young designers that these percentages are advancing towards greater morphological diversity. In the lead, the young London designers Chopova Lowena and Karoline Vitto thanks to their show in which all the models wore at least a size 38 or more. It should be noted that the simple fact that Ester Manas will not show in Paris this season is causing the Ville Lumière to rush into the issue. Proof, if any were needed, is that the big names in luxury are making very little effort on this issue (apart from Balenciaga, Ferragamo and Mugler who are making giant strides), unlike young designers.
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Source: Madmoizelle
Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
