For decades, researchers and activists have criticized the fashion industry for promoting a narrow, unrealistic, and often unhealthy body ideal for women. In the 1980s, two researchers made a splash ...

British designer Edeline Lee has firm views on fashion’s body-image problem. The London-based artist reveals why there is such size bias in the high-fashion industry.

Women are more than twice as likely to purchase clothing when it is modeled by a woman who is the same size as them, a new survey has showed. Canadian researcher Ben Barry found that female 'purchase ...

When the skinny jeans look hit the fashion industry, I finally gave myself permission to dress my body in a form-fitting item. I remember shopping for my first pair in the goth shop at our local mall.

Skinny jeans have long been a firm favorite style, and while they remain a wardrobe staple for most millennials, we're now being told that they're no longer fashionable and that we should move towards ...

American women are giving up skinny jeans for looser-fitting styles. Sales of straight-legged jeans surpassed skinny in the US in 2021, according to figures from NPD. Skinny jeans have been a wardrobe ...

If you follow fashion casually, you've probably heard the recent chatter that skinny pants and jeans are coming back in 2025. We saw the runway proof of it during the spring/summer 2025 shows a few ...

Oh no, not again! Can it really be true? How can so many designers remain so tone deaf to the condemnation of using preternaturally skinny models? Data gathered and analysed by Vogue magazine’s ...

Ms. Endicott is a writer and textile artist. I was 17 and trying and failing to find a plus-size dress for the prom. Wandering through shops with friends, I’d feign interest in the petite strapless ...

For decades, researchers and activists have criticized the fashion industry for promoting a narrow, unrealistic, and often unhealthy body ideal for women. In the 1980s, two researchers made a splash ...