New York Fashion Week May Be Changing, But the Sizing Stays the Same
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
Up to Size 22
Victor Glemaud
Abacaxi
Up To Size 20
Connor Mcknight
Melke
Bruceglen
Tanner Fletcher
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