News Awards & Events Fashion Week New York Fashion Week May Be Changing, But the Sizing Stays the Same By Alyssa Hardy Alyssa Hardy Instagram Twitter Alyssa Hardy is a fashion and culture writer living in New York City. She was formerly the Fashion News Editor at Teen Vogue and the Senior News Editor at InStyle. She recently launched a newsletter titled "This Stuff," which publishes twice weekly. In each edition, readers find timely commentary on news stories and current events in fashion, along with personal essays and musings on trends and celebrity style, featuring personal anecdotes from Alyssa's life as a fashion insider.Alyssa is a staunch advocate for garment workers' rights, and has a deep passion for educating others about fashion's environmental impact — tones that can be felt throughout 'This Stuff.' Her work has been featured in InStyle, Vogue, NYLON, Refinery29, TeenVogue, Ladygunn, Fashionista, and Allure. She is currently working on her debut book, a non-fiction exploration of ethics in fashion titled 'Worn Out.' InStyle's editorial guidelines Published on February 23, 2022 @ 11:58AM Pin Share Tweet Email Photo: Getty Images With New York Fashion Week in the rearview, it's impossible to ignore how much it has changed over the last decade. For the Fall 2022 season, several established designers were missing from the official Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) calendar. In their place were smaller brands that prioritized often-ignored issues like sustainability and diversity. In many ways, these changes made it the most diverse and socially conscious Fashion Week we've ever seen. While these representative moments are important to celebrate, they often don't translate off the runway. Sure, we saw significantly more size diversity among models in the shows, but are the brands offering those sizes to their customers? InStyle surveyed the size ranges of every brand on this season's schedule, and the numbers tell a much less transformative story. Of the 75 shows on the official calendar, 20% offer clothing above a size 20 and about 70% of designers produce clothing at a size 12 or above. Comparing these numbers to the 2020 season, which had fewer brands due to pandemic cancellations, the stats have remained consistent. For the most part, it appears that when brands increase their size ranges, they are doing so incrementally. Some increased their size offering by one or two sizes over the past year. Still, this is not to say that full collections are offered in complete size ranges, and often, only a few pieces go up to the largest size. It's a good change, yes. But at the end of the day, fashion brands on the calendar are not catering the majority of people. Below, see how every brand on the NYFW calendar stacks up when it comes to size ranges they actually produce. A few things about our survey. We only surveyed designers that could be found on the official CFDA calendar here. We only included women's ready-to-wear brands (denim and men's, for example, were excluded). We did not include designers that only create custom clothing or do not sell in retail (like The Blonds). Brands that use European sizes were converted to US sizing using this chart. For brands that size XS-XXL, we used the following conversion: XS= 0, S=2/4, M=6/8, L=10/12, XL=14/16, XXL=18/20. This was based on the average of the designers' conversion estimations. In the instance that a designer offers extended sizing per request but does not produce it across the majority of their products, we went with the size run they create all pieces in. Up to Size 28 Christian Siriano Dennis Basso Veronica Beard Christian Siriano Never Stopped Showing During the Pandemic — and Delivering What His Customers Want Up to Size 22 Victor Glemaud Abacaxi Up To Size 20 Connor Mcknight Melke Bruceglen Tanner Fletcher Yes, Fashion Week Still Matters — Just Not the Way It Used To Up To Size 18 Tadashi Shoji Puppets And Puppets Marrisa Wilson Anna Sui Adam Lippes Up To Size 16 Saint Sintra Kim Shui Eckhaus Latta Sergio Hudson Markarian Coach Tory Burch Badgley Mischka Kimberly Goldson Bibhu Mohapatra Michael Kors Collina Strada Prabal Gurung Pamella Roland Up To Size 14 Jason Wu Collection Alice + Olivia Brandon Maxwell Ulla Johnson Dauphinette Altuzarra Private Policy Laquan Smith Dion Lee Colin Locascio Judy Turner Up To Size 12 Patbo Maisie Wilen Khaite Frederick Anderson Et Ochs Carolina Herrera Duncan Loring New York Interior Peter Do Jonathan Simkhai Danarys New York Kevan Hall Up To Size 10 Area Dur Doux Adeam Aknvas Rentrayage Gabriela Hearst 3.1 Phillip Lim Claudia Li Up To Size 8 Bevza Social Work