More brands on this year's runway have begun to use plus-size models, which also means that aesthetic diversity is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the fashion circle is becoming more and more inclusive of body shape.
Designer Altuzarra returned to New York Fashion Week after five years away from New York for Paris, returning with his eponymous label's exotic tie-dye collection, looking for magic and mystery in nature, using soft knitted materials to accentuate the body lines.
Altuzarra 2022 RTW
Different from the slim and cold beauty of ordinary models, the knitted fabric clearly outlines the body lines of plus-size models, which is more plump and sexy, and interprets a different kind of beauty.
Maryam Nassir Zadeh opened the show with plus-size models, zadeh's diverse lineup of models to date, using plus-size male and female models and African-American models in addition to regular models.
Maryam Nassir Zadeh 2022 RTW
Designer Zadeh has made a lot of bold attempts at design, whether it's color fabrics or cut silhouettes, but as she grew up, she began to like something simple and pure. She's not trying to go into a minimalist style. Rather, I want to find a balance between "fun and fun" and "restraint and non-ostentation". She explores the possibilities of women's dressing in 2022 with a variety of fantastic combinations, delicate but not rigid, interesting but not ostentatious.
Zadeh also stresses on her website not to distinguish clothing by "men" or "women." All of her outfits, from suits to bikinis to transparent miniskirts, can be worn by people of all gender identities.
Brand Jonathan Simkhai also enabled plus-size models on the runway to better show the curves and futurism of the collection. Designer Jonathan Simkhai has a lot of images from the 60s and 70s on the inspiration board, which also expresses his imagination and expectation for this series.
Jonathan Simkhai 2022 RTW
Simkhai made many sets that could be comfortable and at the same time attend formal occasions, and the asymmetrical cuts and layers formed a curved shape like a contemporary art work.
Simkhai used elements of the Möbius ring several times in the series. He believes that life and fashion are like a reincarnation, even if life has ups and downs, especially under the epidemic, many bad things have happened, but we must continue to move forward, and all the roads we have traveled will not be in vain.
In the 1990s, Christie Durrington, along with Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangolinsta, were recognized as the world's top five supermodels, "The Big Five Supermodels." Their figures are not only slim and slender, but also have a sense of strength and curves, and it can be said that they invisibly define the aesthetics and standards of the modeling industry.
The Big Five Supermodels
The appearance of the 90s supermodel Kate Mousse changed this aesthetic standard. She was extremely thin. This offbeat temperament has attracted more and more brands and magazines to cooperate, fascinates major brands such as DIOR, YSL, Calvin Klein, etc., and it can be said that the entire nineties belonged to Kate Mousse.
Kate Moss
The decadent wind led by Kate Mousse, bone beauty has become the mainstream aesthetic of the fashion circle for a time, and size 0 has also become the standard for supermodels. This ethos began to become more and more morbid, having a bad impact on many people and even causing irreversible damage to many people's bodies. As a result, more and more people began to resist this pathological industry rules, including many fashion models, designers, fashion editors and so on. Best known for the "SAY NO TO SIZE ZERO" campaign launched in 2009 by British model Katie Green. She collected 20,000 signatures to ask the government to legislate, requiring models to do health checks and prohibiting models from being too lightweight to ensure the healthy development of the industry.
Katie Green
In 2012, Brazil officially enacted legislation prohibiting "too thin" models from appearing in advertisements, becoming the first country to legislate to pay attention to the health of models, and subsequently, Spain, Italy and other countries also established regulations on the healthy body shape of models. In 2015, France, the global fashion hub, also voted to pass a bill requiring all models working in France to provide a health certificate from a doctor that clearly states their 'Body Mass Index' (BMI), and a BMI below 17 is likely to be diagnosed with malnutrition. Anyone or institution who uses a model diagnosed as malnourished faces a fine of 75,000 euros (about 600,000 yuan) and 6 months in prison.
Since then, "thin" is no longer the only criterion for model figures, and plump plus-size models have begun to appear more and more in people's field of vision. People's aesthetics have also been pulled back to the Monroe era by plus-size models, plump and sexy, healthy and sunny. Many brands have also increased their sizes from sizes 0 to 22 sizes, from XS to 3XL or even 5XL.
Yumi Nu is one of the plus-size supermodels on this year's ready-to-wear run and one of the hottest models of the moment. At Jacquemus' autumn-winter show in July, Yumi shared the stage with supermodel Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, and her cool and advanced Asian face and curvy figure attracted a lot of attention.
Jacquemus FALL 2021 RTW
Yumi Nu is 180cm tall and weighs about 220 pounds, her father is Dutch, her mother is Japanese, and she grew up in the United States. The asian cultural and aesthetic background prevented her from accepting her figure in the first place. Until March this year, Sports Illustrated invited her to appear on the cover, becoming the first Asian plus-size model to appear on the cover, which gave her great confidence and a sense of security about her body.
Yumi Nu
She felt like she had never worn the clothes she really wanted to wear before, and she had never experienced true freedom. And all this is because of the threshold you set for yourself, breaking these, feeling a sense of belonging and security for your body, you will find that everything is possible.
No longer afraid to wear swimsuit confidence Yumi
In addition to Yumi Nu, the three largest plus-size supermodels who appeared most frequently on this year's ready-to-wear run were: Paloma Elsesser, Devyn Garcia, and Precious Lee. Paloma Elsesser, 28, believes that people must have 3Cs: confident confidence, curiosity curiosity, and creativity innovation. She encourages girls to have a unique beauty regardless of body type, as long as they are confident and find their own style.
This year is not Paloma's debut, she has already appeared on the runways of Major Brands such as Fendi, Alexander McQueen, Dior and other major brands last year.
Paloma at the Fendi runway
Paloma at the cover shoot
Devyn Garcia is from Miami, USA, in the final year of high school she decided to suspend her studies to try to start her own modeling path, after a large number of resumes to companies in the United States, a New York modeling agency admitted her, and since then began to model the road.
Devyn Garcia
She is very passionate about sports in private, loves skateboarding, and often plays cycling, surfing, and swimming.
Precious Lee began his modeling career in Atlanta, USA, at the age of 18, and has now walked through shows with brands such as Versace and Michael Kors at New York Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week, and has also appeared on the cover of major magazines with many well-known photographers in the industry.
Precious lee
As an African-American plus size model with dark skin, it is inevitable to stand out among the many models, she said: "I have struggled for many years for plus size models to appear in the brand's ready-to-wear show, and now the results make me happy, which means a lot to the plus size group. I will continue to work hard, and this is just the beginning. ”
The standard of beauty is never the only one, but health is always the premise of beauty. As long as you are full of belonging and security for your body, no matter what size you are, you can have a unique dazzling beauty. Remember to eat well and let our body systems function properly. Remember to love yourself and take it easy to stay confident.