Fashionably Fitfat

📰 Gia/irl Is Making the Cool-Girl Clothes Plus-Size Women Want {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: When you can’t find what you want in fashion, sometimes you have to create it yourself. That’s what fuels Gia Sinatra, founder and CEO of Gia/irl. With a background in modeling and brand consulting, Sinatra knows what it takes to make a clothing line that fits plus-size bodies. Her four-year-old Los Angeles-based brand has found success in making trend-driven clothes for sizes 10 to 30 (or L to 5X) and she’s recently teamed up with model and content creator Emma Arletta on a September collection out now . It’s their first ready-to-wear collaboration (and Sinatra’s first with any influencer) following their bridal collaboration earlier this year. Fashionista caught up with the duo at their New York Fashion Week-timed launch preview held in Dolce Vita’s showroom. The shoe brand wa...

📰 What Designers Think About During Their Post-Show Bows {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Don’t get it twisted: New York Fashion Week makes for a fun highlight reel on social media (what’s not to love about dressing up and running into celebrities?), but there’s plenty of chaos and tension behind the scenes that the public doesn’t always see. Editors camp out at coffee shops to file their stories before dashing to the next show; influencers hustle to post as much video content as possible; and publicists run around making last-minute seating changes and praying their clients’ events go on without a hitch. But no one seems to feel the NYFW pressure more than the designers themselves. For months, they work tirelessly to sew, cut, embroider and drape their collections to perfection. So we can only imagine the sigh of relief they take when they finally present their work and can take a ...