"The emancipating power of plus-size fashion - Britt Mann"
Originally published on Stuff.co.nz, 21 March 2018. Read the original article here.
Stuff's Britt Mann spoke to three people shaping plus-size fashion in New Zealand — designer Sarah-Jane Duff, Zebrano co-founder Geoff Wylde, and blogger Meagan Kerr — about how far the industry still has to go.
Sarah-Jane shared how she went from designing to a standard sample size at fashion school, without registering she couldn't wear her own creations, to becoming her own sample size (18–20) and launching LaLA in 2014. On dressing a plus-size body with confidence, she put it simply:
"I tend to find the most stylish people are the most confident people."
Zebrano's Geoff Wylde spoke to the industry-wide problem of brands "extending" sizes without properly re-grading their patterns, while Meagan Kerr talked about why representation — seeing clothes modelled on bodies like your own — matters more than most brands realise.
Read the full interview on Stuff.