Lena Dunham has revealed her points with the body-positive motion whereas asserting the launch of her new assortment of plus-size garments.
The Ladies actress created the vogue line,11 Honoré x Lena Dunham, in collaboration with 11 Honoré, a retailer that pushes high-fashion designers to incorporate extra inclusive sizes.
In keeping with Dunham, who will probably be the face of the new line in addition to the designer behind it, she needed to create the line as a result of “nobody thinks plus women have a way of humour”.
“What I actually love in vogue is a sure stage of playfulness and winky intelligence that individuals simply don’t suppose bigger women need or perceive,” she advised The New York Occasions. “Nobody thinks plus women have a way of humour, and in the event that they do, it’s: ‘We’re going to place a watermelon in your skirt, you sassy woman!’ None of it has subtlety or true sophistication.”
Whereas talking with the outlet, the actress additionally revealed that she thinks one of the “judgements round bigger our bodies” is “that bigger women are stupider,” with Dunham explaining that she thinks the perception is typically that bigger women are unable to make use of willpower and “preserve doing issues that are unhealthy for them”.
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Reflecting on her personal experiences, Dunham stated that she regularly receives feedback from followers who ask her why she is “selling weight problems” and whether or not she is “silly”.
Nevertheless, Dunham additionally has points with the physique positivity motion in its present type, with the 34-year-old telling the outlet that the motion caters solely to a privileged few.
“The factor that’s sophisticated about the physique optimistic motion is it may be for the privileged few who’ve a physique that appears to be like the approach individuals wish to really feel optimistic,” she stated. “We wish curvy our bodies that appear to be Kim Kardashian has been up-sized barely.
“We wish large stunning butts and large stunning breasts and no cellulite and faces that appear to be you might smack them on to skinny women.”
As for the five-piece assortment she helped design, Dunham stated they are the sorts of garments that could be good for strolling round Soho, and had been impressed by “the women she remembers from the 1990s, like Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith, who would clomp round in males’s shirts and Yohji Yamamoto skirts and unbrushed hair as a result of their very energetic minds had been on different issues,” The Occasions notes.
The gathering, which may at present be pre-shopped, will price between $98 and $298 and be accessible in sizes 12 to 26.