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Lena Dunham launches her own plus-size clothing collection
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Lena Dunham has turned her hand to fashion design with the launch of her own plus-size clothing collection that she revealed she created to encourage other curvy women to reject society's attempts to 'dehumanize' and 'hide' them. Get more news about Plus Size Dresses for women,you can vist 5xsize.com!
The 34-year-old Girls creator announced her 11 Honoré x Lena Dunham capsule collection this week, releasing a series of images of herself modeling the range, which includes five pieces ranging from a $98 tank top to a $298 blazer, all running from size 12 to 26.
While several of the items already appear to have sold out in a few sizes, news of the actress and writer turning to clothing design has received mixed reactions on Twitter, with some — like The View's Meghan McCain — sharing excitement, while others have questioned what qualifies the Girls star to design a clothing collection. Speaking to Vogue, Lena said that she has always been curvy, but as she has gotten older, she has become even more aware of a hole in the market when it comes to larger sizes.
'I've always been someone who’s had a curvy body,' she said. 'Sometimes it seems that the people who make plus size clothing think that women want to disappear — that because our bodies are curvy, we don’t want to be seen any longer, and that’s just not true.'
Lena noted that there have actually been plenty of designers who have been happy to dress her, including Christian Siriano and Christopher Kane, but that the fashion industry as a whole isn't particularly welcoming to a variety of sizes.
'Fashion is not an industry where curvy bodies are embraced, but there have been plenty of people within the industry who have viewed me as someone they might want to dress, which has been an enlightening experience,' she said.
'I’ve been the butt of a fair number of jokes because of the shape and size of my body,' she added, but 'those comments have come more from the media outside of fashion than within fashion itself.''The thing I find is that companies think we either want to dress like we are headed to the club or like we are grandmas, and [founder Patrick Herning] gets that there are as many fashion-loving plus women as there are straight size women,' she told the Daily Front Row.
'We don’t stop loving clothes or having unique style just because the world desexualizes and dehumanizes plus bodies.'For this capsule collection, Lena was inspired by the idea of a busy New York City woman in the late '80s to early '90s.
She turned to that aesthetic for a $138 skirt and a $129 collared shirt — as well as the $268 Madderlake dress, for which her father, artist Carroll Dunham, designed the print. Lena said she loves a vintage look, but that vintage shopping can be really hard because fashion often didn't come in large sizes in past decades.
With 11 Honoré x Lena Dunham, she wanted to make vintage looks accessible, and also make sure they fit: The brand ensured that everything was cut just right, so women would feel 'no tugging or pulling' when they wear it.