![]() Kortleve said, people want to look in magazines or on Instagram and feel represented, particularly younger consumers. “I don’t want to be put under any label or box, be it straight or midsize or plus size or anything else,” she added. “I am clearly not a plus-size model, and putting me in that box takes away from the experiences that my plus-size peers have had, like not being able to find their size in a store, which is something I’ve never had at my size.” Which, outside the fashion industry, is very few people’s idea of plus. ![]() She declined to pin down midsize or plus size with a specific range.Įxcept Ms Kortleve was - and is - roughly a U.S. ![]() “It’s impossible to say with any real accuracy what the average clothing size is for a woman in the U.S.,” Renee Engeln, the director of the Body and Media Lab at Northwestern University, wrote in an email. How certain sizes translate into measurements has shifted over time and varies substantially from brand by brand and garment to garment, which is one of the reasons millions of women find it so hard to buy clothing that fits. Widely cited statistics that suggest the average dress size worn by British and American women is a 16 are generally from studies published in 2016 or earlier. Much of the data on the average dress size in key consumer markets is out of date. So at a time when midsize fashion is gaining momentum elsewhere - in mass market apparel branding and on TikTok, where the #midsize hashtag has more than four billion views - why is it still overlooked by the overlords of luxury fashion? And, in 2023, what does midsize - or average - sizing even mean? ‘Still the Only One’ Kortleve was the only midsize model to be cast by the marquee names on the couture calendar.ĭiversity on the runways (or the lack of it) has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. There were a handful of others at shows like Valentino, but last season Ms. In January, she was the only midsize model cast by Chanel for its couture show. Kortleve has been one of the only midsize models of note. “Curve” models like Paloma Elsesser, Precious Lee and Ashley Graham have thriving careers.įor years, however, Ms. size 12, have become better represented in high fashion. Plus-size models, typically those above a U.S. size 2, remains, overwhelmingly, the fashion industry norm. size 8 to 10 - or “midsize,” as the middle ground between petite and plus size is increasingly known. Since her runway debut for Alexander McQueen in 2018, she has appeared on many magazine covers, modeled in Versace, MaxMara and Jacquemus shows, and starred in advertising campaigns for Valentino Beauty and Fendi, to name but a few.īut what makes her an unusual star for the high fashion industry is not the fact that she is 29, making her older than many of her peers, or that she is 5-foot-8, making her shorter than many of them too. Strikingly beautiful, Jill Kortleve has almond-shaped eyes, dark bushy eyebrows and chiseled cheekbones. In Paris last month, at the Chanel couture show, there was something about one model that set her apart from the others on the runway.
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