Less Than 1% of Looks at Fashion Month This Year Were Plus-Size
Models on the runway during the Christian Dior SE Spring/Summer 2023 Haute Couture Fashion Show, part of the Paris Haute Couture Week.
Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/BloombergThin models dominated runways during this year’s fashion month, when luxury designers in New York, London, Milan and Paris showed their upcoming collections on fashion’s biggest stages.
Plus-size models, who wear a US size 14 or bigger, made up less than 1% of all looks sent down runways across the four major cities for the Autumn/Winter 2023 season, according to a new analysis by Vogue Business, which tabulated size diversity across 9,137 looks and 219 fashion shows. The overwhelming majority of options shown were presented in US sizes 0, 2, or 4; they comprised 95.6% of all looks. The remaining 3.8% of looks were shown on mid-sized models, who typically wear anywhere from a US 6 through 12.