The Body Issue
“It’s clear that bigger bodies are still treated as an exception rather than part of the core audience.”
“People need shows for brand visibility, but they need to do them in a way that doesn’t break the budget.”
The plus-size fashion expert shares why fuller busts still get hypersexualized in fashion, and why she thinks the industry’s inclusivity push stalled since its early-2020s peak.
Fashion says it believes in inclusivity and representation, but does it really?
Hypebae’s The Body Issue examines how algorithms push fashion toward bodies built for the screen, and the designers that are already rewriting what a fashion body is allowed to look like.
The material researcher shares what casting skin has taught her about the body’s limits in fashion.
For Hypebae’s The Body Issue, we speak to the casting director behind some of London’s most inclusive shows.
Hypebae’s The Body Issue explores how optimization is infiltrating fashion imagery, and traces why body reconstruction is turning into a fashion reference.
We speak to one of fashion’s most unfiltered voices about the state of the industry today.
Hypebae’s The Body Issue examines how perception of style still shapes who gets seen as fashionable, and what that means for body inclusivity today.
Hypebae looks back on the last decade of fashion to trace what it reveals about how we see, value and design for the body today.