The Revitalized ‘Project Runway’ Has Finally Taken a Stand For Body Inclusivity & Diversity
Gianluca Russo
"There’s no limit to how beautiful somebody can feel."
Since 2004, Project Runway has helped house the future voices of fashion, pushing young designers to new limits and challenging them to sew against the norm. But there is one aspect the forward-thinking program has always lacked: plus-size representation. In recent years, scattered efforts have been made to increase body diversity on the show, and Ashley Nell Tipton even took home the win in 2014 for an entirely plus collection. Still, the show wavered on how body diversity would impact the future of the very industry it was grooming these talented designers for. Until now.
Season 17 of Project Runway — which concludes this Thursday, June 13 — has done much more than encourage...