L
eslie Jones, a Saturday
Night Live star and one
of the main characters in
2016’s Ghostbusters reboot,
refused to go down without
a fight when many of the designers
she reached out to refused to work
with her. Jones took to Twitter to
publicly (yet anonymously) point out
that designers were not cooperating
with her and her desire to find a
dress for the Ghostbusters premiere.
Designer Christian Siriano, who rose
to fame by becoming the youngest
designer to win Project Runway after
taking home the title in season four,
reached out to Jones via Twitter to
let her know that he would be more
than willing to design her outfit.
Jones ended up wearing a gorgeous
gown created by Siriano to the
premiere, and Siriano later tweeted
that “It shouldn’t be exceptional
to work with brilliant people just
because they’re not sample size.
Congrats aren’t in order, a change
is.”
Why would a designer be so
hesitant when creating a designer
outfit for a celebrity client? Wouldn’t
a fashion house want positive
exposure on a red carpet? The
issue isn’t that designers don’t
want positive exposure, they just
don’t want any positive exposure
coming from a group of people that
represents “a negative, unhealthy
lifestyle.” Fatphobia runs deep in the
fashion industry, and even though