Tim Gunn starts his article by talking about how the fashion industry as a whole is more apt to ignore plus size customers than to try to cater to what happens to be the largest percentage of American women who buy clothes.
Tipton was the first to win the contest with a collection for plus size women, but Gunn, obviously, feels that she didn’t quite deserve it because the clothes don’t represent things that all women would want to wear.
Then, the conversation dovetails, as I supposed it must, into the record breaking win for Ashley Nell Tipton in Season 14 of Project Runway.
He’s actually got lots to say about how fashion is to blame for giving plus size women crappy clothes to choose from, as opposed to this being a problem of those women not knowing how to buy the right clothes for themselves.