“A lack of body diversity is something I’ve come to expect from luxury designers,” model and product designer Taja Feistner tells HURS. With the Fall/Winter 2023 fashion month ending last week it was evident that progress was nowhere to be found. I’m proud of the 24 magazine covers that featured plus-size models in 2022 and the 103 plus-size appearances on the Fall/Winter 2022 runways, yet I’m reminded that these runway numbers account for a mere 2.34 percent of total castings. Today, I look at how Paloma Elsesser, Jill Kortleve and Precious Lee have fought their way onto the covers of the magazines and runways of the most established brands in fashion and I’m proud to witness progress. Working in the fashion industry over the past decade has confirmed this sentiment, with past colleagues and collaborators going to extreme lengths to create environments where skinniness is encouraged and celebrated and where fatphobia is shamelessly expressed. The fashion industry played a big role in this with glossy magazines making me believe that bigger bodies simply weren’t worthy of love or celebration. Up until my teens I was always on the heavier side and the pressure of keeping the weight off has been a load I’ve carried with me since. The singular slim body type that has been celebrated in fashion magazines and on runways for decades made me dislike it even more. I’ve always had a difficult relationship with my body.
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