A model poses beneath the ivy-covered portico of a Gothic mansion in Piedmont. It's an unusually hot July day, and between shots, a makeup artist steps in to powder the brow of the woman, whose ...

I'd venture to guess that if you looked in any fashion or women's magazine from five to 10 years ago, you would come across some "advice" about plus size women wearing bold prints. Sadly, the advice ...

Having a bigger, curvier body, and needing the type of clothing that accommodates or even highlights it, has become (somewhat) more accepted by the fashion and retail industries. Recent years have ...

Christine Hunsicker saw opportunity in the $120 billion women’s apparel industry: One-third of U.S. women wear plus-size clothing, but they represent under a fifth of women’s apparel spending. So in ...

At The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg said that offering bigger sizes means spending more to cover the costs of the additional fabric. “If ...

For women who wear 'plus-size' workout clothing, the motivation to work out is directly affected by their apparel and what they're wearing, with dissatisfaction in the 'plus-size' activewear currently ...

If plus-size fashion is a $17.5 billion industry, why are plus-size consumers still marginalized? The fashion industry takes a lot of blame, and to some extent the blame is fairly placed, but not ...