8/14/2023 0 Comments Plus size model runway walk![]() ![]() Jill KortleveĢ6-year-old Jill Kortleve walked for some of the industry’s most notable names during the AW 2020 shows. Meet the new faces that are helping change conventional standards if beauty in the fashion industry. ![]() Jill Kortleve and Paloma Elsesser became the first-ever curvy models to walk for the Italian fashion house. The last time a plus-size model walked the Chanel runway was in 2010 when model Crystal Renn appeared in the brand’s “Cruise Collection Presentation” in Saint-Tropez, France.įendi also sent two plus-size models down the runway for its Milan Fashion Week AW 2020 show. ![]() Plus-size model Jill Kortleve recently made headlines walking for the luxury French house during Paris Fashion Week AW 2020. The recent AW 2020 round of the Big Four fashion weeks - New York, London, Milan and Paris - introduced us to some new faces and broke new boundaries of body representation. As more pressure is placed on designers - from both customers and people in the industry - to be size-inclusive, a lot of attention is paid to how many curvy models are sent down their runways at fashion week. Considering the average size woman wears a size 12-14, this isn’t an accurate representation. In the modelling industry, being a curvy or plus-size model can mean wearing a size 10 or above. While most Millennial-savvy, digital-native designers have moved away from traditionally young, thin, white models to include more racially diverse and plus-size models, it’s taken Old World, high-fashion European houses a little while longer to catch up. It’s no secret that body diversity and inclusivity have become an important conversation in the fashion industry recently. ![]()
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