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5 Genius Fashion and Beauty Innovators We're Obsessed With Right Now—Including Jackets Made of Tinsel; Black-founded Beauty Brands; and a Skincare Criti
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Meet some of the beauty and fashion creators keeping us inspired this winter.
Pull Up for Change: Supporting Black Founders
Photo: Sharon ChuterWhen it comes to revolutionizing the beauty industry, ...
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Created on 11 January 2023
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Nicole Rieder Explains How She Achieves Her Perfect, Plus-Size '60's Glam Look, and Shares Her 7 Most-Wanted Lis
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Nicole Rieder is an influencer, activist, and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Catch more of her looks on her Insta at @THEHEFTYHIDEAWAY
What can you tell me about these outfits?
I am not shy ...
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Created on 02 January 2023
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Sew Curious? Here Are The Top 4 Things You Need to Get Started Stitching Your Own Wardrobe
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Sewing your own clothes is life-changing, and I truly believe that anyone can do it. The main reason to make your own clothes is because most garments you buy just don’t fit very well. If your body ...
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Created on 23 November 2022
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Did You Know End-of-Life Planning Looks Different If You're A Person With A Fat Body? ...
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... the fat tax.
Plus-size people often pay more for everything from flights to fashion. That doesn’t stop when your heart does. If a body does not fit into the “standard” casket (the interior width of ...
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Created on 26 October 2022
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Here's How Tina Estrella Sports A Spooky Style All Year Roun
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(Style)
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... that I like and that make me me, even if they were a little spooky or a little weird. A big inspiration and something that is important to how I style myself as a plus-size, alternative woman is to not ...
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Created on 05 October 2022
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Beth Ditto Talks Switch To Acting, and Latest Role In The Country Music Drama "Monarch." Plus, New Music From Gossip? ...
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(TV)
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... jeans. Years before the phrase “body positivity” permeated the pop culture lexicon, there was Ditto, dancing on stage in a bustier, posing naked on a 2007 NME cover, and starting her own plus-size clothing ...
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Created on 12 September 2022
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The 5 Things BUST's Fashion Editor Is Loving Right Now for a Sweet and Stylish Summe
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BUST's fashion & beauty editor, Marie Lodi, is here to share her 5 top picks for a sleek and stylish summer.
1. GLOW UP ISLAND STYLE
Meet Prim Botanicals, a plant-based beauty brand that incorporates ...
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Created on 19 July 2022
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Standup Comedy Star Ms. Pat Gets Real About Poverty, Resiliency, And Lane Bryant Fashion Travesties On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast!
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(Poptarts)
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... success turning observations on poverty into comedy, she shares the secrets to her incredible resiliency, and we read Lane Bryant’s menagerie of plus-size, animal-print monstrosities to filth!
Listen ...
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Created on 06 May 2022
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10 Great Plus-Size Clothing Brands To Check Out—Including Lizzo's New Shapewear Line, YITTY
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Lizzo, the 33-year-old superstar artist and activist, is reclaiming power for plus-size women by launching her new, all-inclusive shapewear line. “We play by our own rules. We celebrate all bodies” ...
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Created on 29 April 2022
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This Fashion Designer Was Fed Up With Ready-To-Wear’s Lack Of Inclusivity, So She Created Her Own Line
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New Zealand designer Ange Sloan is 100 percent over ready-to-wear’s lack of inclusivity
Ange Sloan, the woman behind Sloan’s size-inclusive and eco-friendly pieces, hasn’t bought a ready-to-wear ...
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Created on 21 April 2022
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A Broke Girl's Guide to Yoga on a Budge
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(Living)
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... sizes!) to maintain what the retail giant calls “Bodequality.” This also involves the abolishment of the “plus-size section” as well as the showcasing of models that better reflect the size variety of ...
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Created on 01 February 2022
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Plus-Size Stylist Kelly Augustine Shares Her Fall Fashion Wishlist
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New York-based fashion stylist Kelly Augustine believes fashion can be liberating. "People treat fashion like it’s very frivolous, and it’s not," she says. "How I’m treated as a Black person very much ...
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Created on 01 October 2021
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Stylist Challenges Fashion Barriers to Plus-Sized Black Women With Her Bold, Eclectic Style
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(Style)
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... a plus-size woman, I dig into designers who really “get it” for us.
How would you describe your style?
Every day my style is different. But being plus size, I don’t fully get to express my style because ...
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Created on 30 September 2021
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Time of the Season for Loving: Diverse Romance Titles To Heat Up Your Summer
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(Books)
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... when she learns that her stepmother, a producer, needs contestants for a Bachelor-style dating show. Cindy signs on, but the experience doesn’t go as expected. As the show’s first plus-size contestant, ...
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Created on 23 August 2021
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Old Navy Revamps Women's Plus-Size Line With New BODEQUALITY Launch, Including Expanded Sizes and No Price Difference ...
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Old Navy is on a quest to revolutionize shopping for curvy women everywhere, with the launch of its new BODEQUALITY initiative. Committed to a “democracy of style”, the store will no longer have a ...
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Created on 19 August 2021
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Content Creator Jessica Torres on Her Eclectic, Vintage Style, and Having Fun with Fashion
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In our Fashion Nation series, we talk to people about personal style.
Jessica Torres
content creator
@thisisjessicatorres
Bronx, New York
Walk me through this outfit.
I’ve been obsessed ...
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Created on 06 August 2021
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Stop calling your body 'midsize,' says Internet. But it's less clear about why you shouldn't use the t
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(Style)
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... alternative for people who did not see themselves in the normative “straight sizes” that the fashion industry prized, nor in the “plus-size” bodies that were heralded as the alternative to decades of denigrating ...
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Created on 29 June 2021
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The New Victoria’s Secret Brand Ambassadors Are Gay, Trans, Plus-Size, BIPOC, And Pissing Off Conservatives
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(Feminism)
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... mixed-race, British plus-size model Paloma Elsesser; transgender model and activist Valentina Sampaio; photographer, author, media personality, and founder of Girl Gaze, Amanda de Cadenet; Chinese-American ...
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Created on 22 June 2021
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The Mane Event: Horsing Around in the Summer’s Sweetest Styles
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Photographed by Amanda Lopez
Styled by Alanna Holton Rose
Makeup by Renée Loiz for Exclusive Artists Management using Danessa Myricks Beauty
Hair by Saundra Martinez
Hair Pieces on Models ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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Khadijah Robinson's 'The Nile List' Is the Easiest Way to Discover and Support Black-Owned Bran
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During last year’s BLM uprising, Google Trends Data showed a 300 percent increase in the search “How to find a Black-owned business in my area?” Khadijah Robinson, a lawyer based in D.C., makes this ...
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Created on 07 May 2021