SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers, including Roland Mouret, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, took up the gauntlet and created a range of inspiring and alluring proposals for those curves still deemed outside of fashion's narrow 'norm'.
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Image Gallery
12 of the most influential and innovative fashion designers meet our challenge to make beautiful womenswear for sizes 16 and upwards
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Essay: 16+ Fashions
In this essay, Joanne Entwistle examines the idea of 'outsize' fashions and questions the promotion of our 'narrow' idea of beauty
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Essay: Gimme More
Roberta McGrath celebrates the concept of 'variety' of representation of the female body, and the idea of fashion - and image - as fantasy.
