Clothing designers whose focus is designing for plus size bodies.
Continuing on with another week of plus size clothing designers! This week I’ll start off with another longtime personal favorite — Kim Camarella-Khanbeigi has been dressing women size 0x to 5x since 1996. Her boutique styles are sophisticated and trendy but accessible to the everyday woman. In other words, it will still be fashionable next…
Niehla Ollie is the owner and head designer of Chocolate Sushi Couture. A strictly plus size designer with an updated retro flare that is romantic, functional, and fashionable. Her fashions are currently available through sample sales she announces on Facebook but a website for online shopping is coming soon. Here are some of my favorite…
Jasmine Elder is the designer behind Jibri which offers “high fashion chic and urban street sleek” designs for plus sizes 14 to 24. Since 2006 she has been sharing her creative eye for the truly curvy woman. Jasmine’s designs can be purchased at select boutiques and online at Etsy. The Jibri collections are truly artistic…
Melissa Masse started off custom designing clothing for other designers before she struck out on her own and developed her self-titled line in 2002. Her clothing line includes sizes up to plus size 3x. Melissa’s ready to wear collection offers simple fashions for every day life. Her designs can be found at fine department stores…
Johnny Was (not the gangster) is a clothing line designed by Biya Ramar who has been designing her own line since 2000 (Biya Collection). With the Was line you can expect to find an urban feel and beautiful embroidery designs while the Biya line is more sophisticated. Both lines have official websites but do not…
Jacqueline Floro’s INES collection for curvy women size 10 to 26 is relatively new but this designer is not new to clothing design having developed a strong reputation with the Bilingual Clothing line. The INES collection offers figure flattering, pattern intensive designs with bold beautiful colors. When I see the INES collection I think soft…
Anna Scholz launched her self-titled label for plus size clothing from her flat in London in 1996. Her creations dress the curves of women size 12 to 28 from a limited seasonal collection that usual involves bright patterns and fine details from the latest trends. From season to season there have been a number of…
There’s this myth that plus size fashion designers are few and far between — this is far from the truth. Over the last decade plus size fashion has made great strides all over the world. Over the next few weeks I’ll share some of my favorites to keep an eye out for. Anna Scholz Jacqueline…