Fashion Only Five NYFW Designers Make Clothing Larger Than Size 22 By Tess Garcia Tess Garcia Tess Garcia is a freelance journalist, certified yoga instructor, and contributing writer for InStyle. You can also find her discussing politics for Bustle, or exploring her Latinx heritage for Refinery29 and Teen Vogue. She hopes to bring a unique Gen Z perspective everywhere she goes. InStyle's editorial guidelines Updated on February 25, 2019 Pin Share Tweet Email Photo: JOHANNES EISELE/Getty Images Last New York Fashion Week, we surveyed the size charts of every designer on the CFDA calendar. The results were expectedly disappointing, proving the extreme negligence of the fashion industry in addressing size inclusivity. This season, we checked those stats for changes using an updated roster of brands. What we found was a (small) step in the right direction. NYFW Fall/Winter 2019 saw a 4 percent increase in designers who produce clothing for sizes 14 and above, the demographic encompassing 68 percent of American women. The number of designers capping off at size 12 dropped by the same 4 percent. Of the brands surveyed both last season and now, eight have increased their size range by at least one number since September. Here's What It's Like to Work in an Industry That Hates You Veronica Beard, Coach 1941, Self-Portrait and Noon by Noor have shown the greatest improvement, with the former moving their biggest size up from 16 to 20, and the latter three from size 10 to 14. Eckhaus Latta has jumped from a size 12 to 14, while Opening Ceremony and Ulla Johnson have gone from 10 to 12. Three designers newly introduced to the schedule — Lela Rose, Studio 189, and Victor Glemaud — have each raised the bar for Fashion Week mainstays by offering styles up to size 20. For a second season in a row, body-positive fashion hero Christian Siriano is at the top of the chart, serving utter looks up to a size 28, and he’s joined there this time by Chromat, which has made a concerted effort to make fashion size inclusive in the last year. Erica Whyte These may sound like wins for fashion and the size-inclusivity movement at large, but the fine print may speak otherwise. Some of last season’s most inclusive brands, Derek Lam (up to size 26), Vaquera (up to 24), Kith (up to 22), and Libertine (up to 20), were not present on the CFDA’s FW19 calendar. To make matters worse, in comparing last season’s data to this season’s, the size ranges of Proenza Schouler and Marina Moscone appear to have decreased from up to 12 then, to now maxing out at a 10. The Plus-Size Only Street Style Gallery You Need to See What shoppers are likely to feel most acutely in stores, is that even those designers who have recently broadened their offerings tend to boast far fewer styles in the larger sizes — say, Veronica Beard’s single cardigan available in size 20, or Noon by Noor’s choice to make T-shirts the only products sold up to a 14. Call it a double-edged sword, call it subtle progress. Either way, fashion is moving at an obscenely slow pace in a world that’s changing by the second. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly truth of New York’s designers in 2019. 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 answered us in 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. Erica Whyte Here's how the size offerings break down by brand: Up to Size 28 Christian Siriano Chromat Up to Size 24 Tadashi Shoji Up to Size 22 John Elliott Prabal Gurung Up to Size 20 Brandon Maxwell Marchesa Lela Rose LUAR Studio 189 Victor Glemaud Veronica Beard Up to Size 16 Badgley Mischka Bibhu Mohapatra Brock Collection Carolina Herrera Chiara Boni la Petite Robe Elie Tahari J. Mendel Kate Spade New York Naeem Khan Oscar de la Renta Ralph Lauren Up to Size 14 Adam Lippes BOSS Cinq a Sept Christopher John Rogers Coach 1941 Eckhaus Latta Jason Wu Kim Shui Lou Dallas Luar Mansur Gavriel Michael Kors Nanushka Nicole Miller Noon by Noor Novis Pamella Roland Sally Lapointe Self-Portrait TELFAR The Row Tory Burch Zero + Maria Cornejo Up to Size 12 3.1 Phillip Lim alice + olivia Adrienne Landau Anna Sui Calvin Luo Christian Cowan Christopher John Rogers Collina Strada Cushnie Diane von Furstenberg Gauntlett Cheng Hellessy Helmut Lang Jonathan Simkhai Mara Hoffman Opening Ceremony Palm Angels PH5 Romeo Hunt Rosie Assoulin Sies Marjan Tibi Ulla Johnson Yuna Yang Zadig & Voltaire Up to Size 10 ADEAM Area BATSHEVA Bevza Claudia Li Cynthia Rowley Dion Lee Gabriela Hearst Lela Rose Linder Longchamp Marc Jacobs Marina Moscone Maryam Nassir Zadeh Proenza Schouler Ryan Roche Sandy Liang Zimmermann Up to Size 8 Claudia Li Jeremy Scott Ji Oh Moon Choi Romeo Hunte Rosetta Getty Was this page helpful? 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