

Most recently Tess Holliday is listed as helping Scandinavian clothing brand H&M expand and develop its plus size line. Tess has also worked on several edits and collaborative fashion collections including a line for Penningtons and Fashion to Figure. The video, which also featured plus size models and influencers Gabi Fresh and Nadia Aboulhosn, showed the trio lipsynching to Beyoncé’s hit song Flawless. star was born.Ĭovers, Campaigns, Catwalks and Collections: Since rising to prominence, Tess has featured on a cover for Cosmopolitan UK and starred in an H&M campaign, as well as featured in Marie Claire, Vogue Italia, and Nylon magazines. Tess has also walked during London Fashion week for an off-schedule Simply Be show as well as during New York Fashion Week for high fashion brand Chromat. Quitting her day job and subsequently appearing in the viral video #everyBODYisflawless, launched Tess Holliday into mainstream consciousness. Existing largely online, through social media and plus size fashion or 'fat-shion' blogs, Tess's influence and status was growing and in 2014, the world finally got to hear about Tess Holliday. Tess was the best-kept secret of a growing plus size fashion movement. Unperturbed, in 2013, Tess launched the Instagram hashtag #effyourbeautystandards, a social protest against the world's beauty standard and aims to champion body positivity. It was thought that Tess wouldn't be the right fit for print ads or catalog work. Standing at just 5 foot 3 inches tall and a US size 16 (UK 18/20).

When Tess first tried her hand at modeling at an open casting call at 15, she was unsuccessful. The industry thought that Tess Holliday was too short and too big, but the industry was wrong. If you want to hear more from Ashley Graham, then tune into her podcast Pretty Big Deal, for inspirational chit-chat and plenty of self-love. Fronting campaigns for Revlon and St Tropez, Ashley Graham has also collaborated on several collections, including a lingerie range with Addition Elle, a collab with PrettyLittleThing and a denim edit with Marina Rinaldi. Most recently Ashley shared a short behind-the-scenes clip of her modeling for top lingerie brand, Knix, posing up a storm in the brand's swimwear. She has also walked the runway for Dolce and Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Christian Siriano and Fendi. For now, it's a step in the right direction.A vocal advocate for body positivity, Ashley is a force for change within the industry, even hosting a TED talk in 2015 called Plus size? More like my size, where she challenged the industry's outdated conventions.ĭescribing herself as model, mogul, mama, Ashley continues to take the modeling world by storm, constantly growing her Instagram following where she shares a mixture of behind-the-scenes from shoots, as well as family life.Ĭovers, Campaigns, Catwalks and Collections: Ashley Graham's covers include American Vogue, Vogue Arabia, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Glamour. The brand is also running a body-positive campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to post pictures in Fashion Nova jeans using the hashtag #BodiedbyNova. In fact, we plan to offer a wide range of products in plus by the end of 2017." Also, our Plus Size Collection has had an exceptional response from the moment we launched. That will soon be represented on our website alongside the straight size models.

We launched our Curve line to become more inclusive with all of our styles and are actively strengthening the Collection. Unlike most companies, the same products that are offered to our straight size customers are also available to our plus size customers and we strongly believe that our clothing empowers women of all shapes and sizes. Our curvy Nova Babes have always been re-posted on our page as well as our curve page. The Fashion Nova brand as a whole believes that all women should feel both confident regardless of today's body standards. We dedicate the page to re-post all of our customers who wear the term "Plus-Size" confidently. "We launched Fashion Nova Curve for the curvy and confident woman only 3 months ago.
