A look into the dark side of fashion, the side pushed into the back of the closet and told to not come out, fat people in fashion. From the racially charged origins of fatphobia to the stick skinny era of the 90s to the body positivity facade of the 2000s and shows ANTM, we are talking about how fat people are left out of the fashion world or put into a little box and expected to never complain.
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ED hotlines:
https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/treatment-for-eating-disorders/eating-disorder-hotlines
Gia (1998)
Fat is just an adjective - The Fat Girls Guide to Life by Wendy Shanker
“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” by Sabrina Strings (https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/).
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/nov/20/heroin-chic-fashion-skinny-worship
https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/statistics/#body-image
https://wellnesspulse.com/health-trends/americas-next-top-model-impact-on-body-image/
https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/ozempic-statistics/