Models, led by transgender model Leyna Bloom, walk the runway for the Chromat Spring/Summer 2018 show during New York Fashion Week. (Photo: Getty Images)
Plus-size and transgender models on the runway has so far been limited to a model or two per show. That’s not to denigrate those models and designers who promote body positivity; rather, it only confirms that, despite the progress made, there’s still room for improvement.
At swim and activewear brand Chromat, the clothes tell a story as much as the models who wear them. Take the opening look at the New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2018 runway on Friday night: a blue-black cropped bathing suit top replete with trendy underboob, a Lara Croft Tomb Raider-esque harness, and G-string. It would have been show-defining on its own, but designer Becca McCharen-Tran didn’t cast a straight-size cisgender (i.e., non-transsexual) woman, as is the norm in fashion, to open her show. She cast transgender model and activist Leyna Bloom.
Plus-size and transgender models on the runway has so far been limited to a model or two per show. That’s not to denigrate those models and designers who promote body positivity; rather, it only confirms that, despite the progress made, there’s still room for improvement.
At swim and activewear brand Chromat, the clothes tell a story as much as the models who wear them. Take the opening look at the New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2018 runway on Friday night: a blue-black cropped bathing suit top replete with trendy underboob, a Lara Croft Tomb Raider-esque harness, and G-string. It would have been show-defining on its own, but designer Becca McCharen-Tran didn’t cast a straight-size cisgender (i.e., non-transsexual) woman, as is the norm in fashion, to open her show. She cast transgender model and activist Leyna Bloom.
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