Citations:fatshionista

English citations of fatshionista

Noun: "an overweight person interested in fashion; a plus-size fashionista"

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• 2009 — Amy Odell, "‘Fat-shionistas’ Band Together for Full-Figured Fashion Week", New York Magazine, 25 June 2009:

  If fatshionistas are willing to pay for luxury goods, why won't the industry make them for them? It's not like those companies are rolling in it right now.

• 2009 — Bronwyn Cosgrave, "Plus-size fashion: style for the fuller figure", The Telegraph, 1 July 2009:

  Harrods' Designer Plus department is a fatshionista's heaven.

• 2010 — Susan Daly, "Young, fat and fabulous!", Irish Independent, 17 February 2010:

  The more democratic world of the internet is producing a growing number of self-styled "fatshionistas".

• 2010 — Robin Givhan, "Full Figured Fashion Week draws plus-size crowd", The Washington Post, 7 July 2010:

  Yet Lane Bryant, the Goliath retailer offering sizes 14-28, believes its customer is most concerned with comfort, then fit and finally style. "She's not there on the cutting edge of fashion," says President Brian Woolf. "She might be a year behind."

  Don't let the fatshionistas hear you say that, buddy.

• 2010 — Margit Detweiler, "Plus-size", The Spokesman-Review, 31 July 2010:

  This cocktail party and jean “sampling” was thrown by Torrid earlier this month for some of its best customers: young bloggers who proudly call themselves "fatshionistas."

• 2011 — Hanne Blank, Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them), Ten Speed Press (2011), →ISBN, page 39:

  I am partial to dresses with voluminous skirts, but there are some fatshionista bloggers out there who are traditional apples and who also work out the sheath dresses and pencil skirts like nobody's business.

• 2011 — Kate Dailey, "'Fatshion' blogs defiantly celebrate plus-size couture", BBC News Magazine, 26 December 2011:

  Tired of being ignored, "fatshionistas" are using the web to reclaim their autonomy and show off their wardrobe.