TikTok is not impressed
From Jill Kortleve, Alva Claire and Precious Lee making history at Versace’s Milan Fashion Week show this year, to the wave of high street and high fashion brands featuring more body diversity in their ad campaigns, the fashion industry has seemingly made massive progress in the representation of plus-sized models.
models. Megan Mesveskas, a 24-year-old model and founder of the body diverse agency Model Nexus was allegedly told by Lords’ studio manager that it costs $950 to shoot ‘standard’ models but $1050 for ‘plus-sized/curve’.to vent her frustration. ‘Yep, you’re reading that right,’ she said in the video. ‘A curve or a plus-sized model is going to cost an extra hundred dollars.’
‘Plus-sized’ itself is a contentious term, with body positivity campaigners pointing out the disparity between plus-sized models and plus-sized clothes . 'We don’t require brunette model to identify themselves as such. We don’t ask blue eyed models to sit alone in a category. So, I’d love to know why should all women outside of 2 dress sizes be called “plus” or “curve”?'
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