NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (UPI) — Ashley Graham and Christina Hendricks were among the stars who attended Christian Siriano’s New York Fashion Week show Saturday.
The 28-year-old model and 41-year-old actress sat front row, along with actresses Pamela Anderson and Jaimie Alexander, as the 30-year-old designer sent his spring 2017 collection down the runway.
Siriano showed off several bold looks, including a tangerine-colored jumpsuit and a turquoise dress with cutouts and thigh-high slits. The show was also notable for featuring several plus-size models.
“I think [other designers] can [make great plus-size clothes]. I just think it’s a lot of time and a lot of work,” Siriano told Elle at the event. “We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.”
“Honestly, I think the ‘trick’ is you have to really want to do it. You’re embracing more of the world,” he added. “The models in the show who are ‘plus size’ … they’re not wearing differently styled outfits. They’re just beautiful girls who are in the show, like normal.”
Graham and Hendricks have been praised as plus-size fashion and beauty icons, although both women reject the label. Graham said in the August issue of Cosmopolitan that she simply considers herself a “model.”
“Just because I’m not calling myself plus-size doesn’t mean I’m not representing a woman who is,” she qualified. “I’m giving curvy women a seat at a table that we’ve never been invited to before — a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.”
Siriano is known for winning Season 4 of Project Runway and for dressing Leslie Jones for the Los Angeles premiere of Ghostbusters. He created a glamorous floor-length gown for the actress after she revealed that no designers wanted to work with her.
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