Just in time for last-minute holiday shopping, Melissa McCarthy has launched the e-commerce site for her clothing line, Seven7. The actress’s holiday collection features an assortment of clothing, from casual designs to more dressed-up pieces.
After much anticipation and many, many hints, we've finally got some solid details on Melissa McCarthy's long-promised plus-size clothing line. Hell yes.
If you're a plus-size woman buying jeans at Old Navy, you'll pay more than your slender female friends or big-and-tall guy friends. And people are pissed.
Lela Rose is collaborating with Lane Bryant for limited edition collection. The American designer was motivated by something we already know: no matter your size, all women want stylish, flattering clothing.
For some reason, the fashion industry still can't seem to get its shit together when it comes to serving plus-size consumers. For every beautiful Isabel Toledo for Lane Bryant collection, there's a store condescendingly robo-complimenting plus-size shoppers.
London is getting a new plus-size store, and this one has a special feature: interactive dressing rooms pre-programmed with robo-compliments for shoppers.
For the last year, cutesy emporium Modcloth has been deliberately ramping up its plus-size offerings. Now they'd like everyone to know that yes, you can do a brisk business selling larger ladies clothing that isn't a poorly-made heap of polyester garbage.
Isaac Mizrahi did a quick HuffPost Live segment the other day, in which he discussed the fashion industry's treatment of plus size women. When asked when, or if, Project Runway will feature contestants who specialize in plus sizes, Mizrahi responded that it's a "very good idea, I love that idea." Fashion, Mizrahi…
Target hasn't had the very best 12 months, customer relations-wise. Back in November, a massive data breach left millions of customers vulnerable to the ass-ache of credit card theft. And in recent weeks, stirrings online suggest that across the country, the store's plus size departments are quietly disappearing. When…
Yes, before anyone says anything, that is a plus-size model. (I know, I know.) As a fan of Mango's particular type of sexually liberated woman wear, I'm excited. You know what they say: the shorter the skirt, the closer to god.
Lululemon, like many major retailers before them, likes to pretend that a size 4 is the size of the average woman in the United States. Despite much evidence to the contrary, they cater their overpriced wares to an America that doesn't exist, and have no desire to change their dumb-ass ways. Therefore, I meant what I…
I make fun of ModCloth on the regular; it's kind of impossible not to. At times, their sheer tweeness is enough to make Lisa Frank look like Axl Rose, and there are only so many bespectacled cats you can fit on one outfit. But I have a (truly adorable) secret. The same day I wrote this article, I ordered this, this,…
Nobody's favorite t-shirt company is facing hard times. Loans are coming due. Financial reports are five months late. Sales are falling. Auditors are quitting. Stock prices are plummeting. Investors are investigating. But Dov Charney maybe can still turn things around.
An NYT Magazine piece on "The Plus-Size Wars" makes a point we've heard before: fat women are really different from other people. So is it true?
Good news: The Simply Be catalog, which sells U.K. sizes 14 to 32, is coming to America. The U.S. version of the website opens in July; one million catalogs ship in August. [BusinessWeek]
Belle Robinson, owner of UK clothing retailer Jigsaw, tells the Times of London: "We have to get a grip on having created this world where skinny girls are normal." A size 16, Robinson can't wear sample sizes from her store.
Nearly all of the dresses offered by Rent The Runway only go up to a size 8; the site's size scale tops out at 10. Wear Today, Gone Tomorrow, a similar designer rental service, has clothes in sizes 0-14. [DailyMarauder]
Another day, another story about how hard it is to make plus-size clothing.
