SIZE MATTERS
THE S/S 2019 show season was the most body-diverse to date. Of the 2203 models who walked the runway across 76 major shows, 49 were ‘plus-size’. A positive increase though that may be, that’s still only 2.2 per cent of models representing 68 per cent of women (according to Plunkett Research, this is the number of women in the US who wear size 16 and up). “You’ve got a whole market of women here who you’re not speaking to,” says Jessica Vander Leahy, an Australian curvy model, writer and the founder of Project WomanKind — a digital resource celebrating a diverse ideal of femininity. “Why are [brands] still not shaking it up? Why are they trying to
