Meet the High-Fashion Model Who's Confident in Her Size-12 Bod, and Writes a Food Blog! A model who isn't body obsessed, loves food and blogs about it?

Aug. 4, 2011— -- Thylane Loubry Blondeau, a 10-year-old model with a sultry stare beyond her years, had the fashion industry drooling after posing for French Vogue.But photos of the Parisian ...

The Namilia brand shocked some with this T-shirt at Berlin Fashion Week in 2024 - it said it was being satirical The high fashion industry has always been synonymous with thinness, but for a brief ...

Meanwhile, high fashion’s model of the moment, ... “But as a model and individual you have to embrace your own body type, regardless of the runway trends,” she said.

Plus-size models, typically those above a U.S. size 12, have become better represented in high fashion. “Curve” models like Paloma Elsesser, Precious Lee and Ashley Graham have thriving careers.

This beauty ideal became de rigueur in the industry; the average runway model has a body mass index (BMI) of 16, which the World Health Organization classifies as severely thin.

Model Gigi Hadid posted a ... I don’t have the same body type as the other models in the shows,” Hadid wrote on her account. “I represent a body image that wasn’t accepted in high-fashion ...

Last season, New York Fashion Week had the most body diversity yet, with 49 out of its 4,000 or so models being plus-size. This season, though, that percentage fell to 31 out of roughly 3,200.

The model has defied the odds of Down Syndrome - not only becoming a four-time Olympic champion but becoming the poster girl for inclusivity in the fashion industry.

The prospect of observing a body-inclusive fashion show was not so long ago a viable option. However, the Spring/ Summer 2025 runways have presented a starkly different reality where inclusivity ...