New York Fashion Week offered inclusive fashion and body positivity at the shows of Chromat, Savage X Fenty By Rihanna and children brand Lulu and Gigi Couture's, in which appeared a nine-year-old girl, who had both legs amputated as a baby. Already, in 1998, Alexander McQueen created a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs made from ash for paralympics athlete Aimee Mullins.
By Ludmilla Intravaia
"Rihanna: 1-0, Victoria's Secret : 0", "Victoria’s Secret has a lot to learn from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty show", "How Rihanna excels where Victoria's Secret has failed"..., web commentators seem to be unanimous : the last Savage X Fenty by Rihanna show marks a decisive turn in the way of presenting lingerie on the catwalk, with inclusivity and body positivity, a turning point that many competing brands have not been able to negotiate or foresee (read more about Rihanna's lingerie show, in this Boudoir Numérique paper : "Savage X Fenty by Rihanna : Offset in Nike Back to the Future").
Savage X Fenty by Rihanna show, September 10, 2019, in NY
The Savage X Fenty lingerie show, held on September 10, in New York, demonstrates rihanna’s desire to offer garments accessible to all sizes, in a positive body approach, in favor of the acceptance of human diversities and a better self-esteem. Rihanna's fashion wants to be "inclusive", to gather around a community of customers, whatever their origins, morphologies, handicaps, genders, ages, sexual orientations, etc., outside stereotypes and codes of beauty in vogue. For example, the public saw the model Lauren Wasser, leg amputee, wearing artificial prostheses.
Already, in 1998, the British designer Alexander McQueen created a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs made from ash for paralympics athlete Aimee Mullins, on the occasion of his show N°13, spring-summer 1999, in London.
Below, Alexander McQueen's N° 13 fashion show, spring-summer 99, in London, in 1998 (continue reading on this show with this Boudoir Numérique paper : "A spray of fashion tech at the MTV Awards").
One day before Rihanna's runway, a nine-year-old English girl, also a leg amputee, lent her talent to Lulu and Gigi Couture's New York show. Daisy-May Demetre, now ambassador of this children brand, also apperead on the catwalk of Paris Fashion Week, at the end of September.
Daisy-May Demetre at the Lulu and Gigi Couture show, September 9, 2019, NY
Finally, continue your reading on this subject, with American brand Chromat Spring-Summer 2020 show with this Boudoir Numérique paper : "The bionic artist Viktoria Modesta on Chromat show".
Model Viktoria Modesta at Chromat Spring-Summer 2020 show, September 7, 2019, New York