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Navabi makes stock photos available that show women with curves

Online retailer for plus size fashion, Navabi, demands more body diversity across all media channels and especially for stock photos, the vast majority of which depict an unrealistic image of women, using thin, young and white models. Thus, Navabi has put together stock photos of women in different everyday situations, which can be downloaded...

Fashion

10 steps by brands and retailers towards size inclusivity

Traditional beauty ideals are increasingly being challenged, broadening sensibilities and evolving aesthetics that accept and embrace a varied range of individuals. With the number of overweight and obese adults increasing in the United States and Europe, the demand for plus size clothing too increases. While plus-size models like Ashley Graham...

Fashion

Inclusivity: seven bold steps by brands making fashion more progressive

We live in a global culture that increasingly challenges traditional beauty ideals, pushes boundaries and blurs colour, creed, body size, ethnicity and gender lines defining separations. Though a bit slow to catch on, mainstream fashion is finally jumping on the bandwagon with brands, retailers, designers and other decision makers changing...

Fashion

Navabi features plus size women on cover pages

Premium plus size retailer navabi, which started its #MorePlusPlease campaign last February, has extended it through its new initiative 'Cover Stories', placing plus size women on the cover pages of popular fashion magazines like Glamour, Grazia, Elle and Vogue. This should balance the fact that though more than 50 percent of European women wear...