{"id":1694,"date":"2026-01-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecuriousblog.online\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/2026-will-be-the-year-diverse-talent-becomes-fashionable\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:18:36","slug":"2026-will-be-the-year-diverse-talent-becomes-fashionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecuriousblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/2026-will-be-the-year-diverse-talent-becomes-fashionable\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Will Be The Year Diverse Talent Becomes “Fashionable”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We need full-glamour c*nt,” says stylist Kat Typaldos. She talks about the idea of \u200b\u200bhow her client, comedian and actress Megan Stalter, intends to look on the red carpet\u2014and the difficulty of doing it when their choice of designers is decided. un<\/em>– c*nt. “It’s so hard to find fancy clothes for people who aren’t sample sizes. And if designers give me a piece that fits…” she pauses, “I mean, do you<\/em> want to see a muumau on the red carpet? I’m not going to tell someone they have to wear something because it’s Valentino.”<\/p>\n
Typaldos and Stalter embody a new era of fashionistas; their foul-mouthed gang is totally connected to celebrities who are the perfect size of the body image of yesteryears. In case you need reminding, the most recent wave of size diversity (ie, 2014 to 2019) was the result of knocking on the doors of the fashion industry with polite requests to enter. A select few were allowed\u2014Adele, Ashley Graham, Danielle Brooks, et al\u2014but despite their game-changing talent and media-savvy habits, we were seeing them shoved into tired lines of designer wear, from the aforementioned muumuu to lazy body wear. “Fashion was exhausting,” said Kelly Augustine, who has worked with Brooks as well as Gabourey Sidibe and Michelle Buteau. “Basic, uninspired designs satisfied us, but the industry had no intention of maintaining a long-term commitment to this community.”<\/p>\n\n
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In 2020, those conditional size placements began to disappear. Brands are struggling to keep business afloat as customers stop shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, higher and unprecedented prices made that even more difficult, and extended sizes were the first steps out of budget brands. Also, the standard of beauty has returned to size zero thanks to the Ozempification of Hollywood. Fashion as an essence also changed. We had colorful optimism as a response to the collective stress of the epidemic, then the \u201cclean girl\u201d and \u201cquiet luxury\u201d while the cultural pendulum swung from centering black lives to, disappointingly, re-centering whiteness. Recently, Charli XCX’s representation of the “brat” style has surfaced, arguably as a response to the jeopardy of women’s reproductive rights that we see being played out in the political arena.<\/p>\n