High fashion has, historically, not been a welcoming place for plus-size customers, even if Ashley Graham has made it to the cover of Vogue a few times. Why invest in clothes if your body was considered undesirable, or when you were one successful diet away from the necessity of wearing them in the first place? “Plus-size women have never been told they could stay that way and invest in themselves as they are,” said Lauren Chan, who started Henning last year. “Before this chapter, I was a plus-size model and a fashion news director at Glamour. I had these incredible colleagues wearing Miu Miu every day like they had that armor on, but my weight fluctuated, and I wore from size 12 to 20.

Source: New York Times March 11, 2020 16:50 UTC