Fashion's Big Lie: How 'Creativity for Everyone' Is Failing Plus-Size Inclusion Again!

Alert! Wasn't "Creativity for Everyone" supposed to mean, well, everyone? Vogue talked the talk with their cover featuring Zac Posen’s Gap appointment, but did they walk the walk? With Devyn Garcia almost hidden as the lone non-straight-sized model, it seemed like a blast from the past—bringing back sharp jaws and hipbones from the 2000s! Cue the collective side-eye.

As someone who’s been in the fashion trenches for years, the lame excuses around the lack of plus-size representation are getting old. Yes, runway sizes are limiting, but come on, this is Gap 2024 we're talking about! Still puzzled why a cover championing “creativity for everyone” skipped on diverse bodies? Yep, us too.

Shocking truth: The runway love for plus-size models is rapidly vanishing. Remember when 86 plus-size models strutted for Spring/Summer 2020? By 2025, that'd dropped to an icy cold 0.8%! The industry is now favoring “midsize” models – and yet, plus starts at size 4? Talk about moving those goalposts!

Lauren Chan cites a heyday of plus models like Ashley Graham hitting the runway—and now? That spotlight's flickering. Why? The secret lies beyond fashion, with the Ozempic craze taking pop culture back to those thinness ideals we thought we buried. It's more than fashion—it’s a cultural comeback, fueled by chic little injections.

Fashion journalist Lauren Sherman mentions how the industry whispers of “'Zemped up” models are echoing into a larger narrative. The low-key return to size-0 obsession isn’t just fashion’s dirty little secret anymore.

Spilling the tea, Christina Grasso and Ruthie Friedlander from The Chain remind us: what’s sexy isn’t skinny—it’s submission. A negligible focus on body size keeps us from seeing what truly matters in the world. And if the fashion elite continue to shrink to size 000, they’ll soon be sewing into thin air.

Brands like Sinéad O’Dwyer and Ester Manas are setting an example with authentic diversity. The industry's move to be "mask-off" could actually mean seeing genuine progress instead of token gestures.

Sure, we’re still in a two steps forward, one step back dance with body diversity, but talking about it is better than cozying back into the early 2000s skin-tight comfort zone. It’s time to wake up, fashionistas—get bold, stop whispering, and tackle this issue with the flair it deserves. Let’s make fashion fun, fearless, and absolutely inclusive... not the same rinse, repeat cycle!

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