[ SECRET POST #4495 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4495 ⌋

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Fashion people have issues with the fashion industry. -waves- I didn't go to Parsons. I went to the Academy of Art where fashion was taught "as a business." Art didn't play a big role in how we were supposed to think about clothes. What did play a big role was one very specific price point, Runway Ready to Wear. And other places, like Parsons and FIT are as far as I'm aware, pretty much the same w/ stricter standards.

The fashion student is taught essentially one way to draw. 9 Heads, inverted triangle body type. This creates a "hangar" for the clothes to be on. Even though we're told in fashion business size 12 is the average American woman, we're taught to draft size 8. Models can be size 4 or 6. The average American woman is now a size 14. In drafting, we also aren't taught how to scale the sizes up or down. Thus, a student designer doesn't know how to do the niche plus sized market when it comes to drawing, designing or drafting. It's not in their tool box.

Fashion, for the properly taught designer, is only "art" if they are doing haute couture avante garde work that is supposed to be "wearable art" that say gets worn to the Met Gala. Otherwise, they have a design aesthetic/brand, a target market, fashion TRENDS and a specific price point per garment to meet.

When it comes to making a brand, they have to make a choice on where they are starting. So most start with Missy sized clothes. Then, if your brand gets popular enough, you can expand to Petite/Plus Sized/Shoes etc. Missy sized clothes are the CHEAPEST place to start a brand. It's all business, not art.

So that means the petite, tall and plus sized markets are incredibly under served. Because the patterns have to be remade correctly to fit them properly and this costs because there's about 12 people in the States that have that skill. That's why a lot of clothes that are designed for Missy look bad in Plus Size b/c the pattern was NOT scaled properly up.

Then fashion gets spread out trying to fix all these problems like fashion waste and too thin models all at once. So, nothing really gets resolved. (We have made strides. Go France!)

I know exactly why you made this comment. The reason you're talking about is the reason why shows like Project Runway have pushed so hard for plus sized models and out of ten of them, there are only 2. TWO! They're trying to bring awareness to this issue. They're succeeding. Hopefully soon there will be some better if incremental changes to the industry.