The Designer Making Truly Plus Luxury Clothing
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03/06/19 • 27 min
Tamara Malas is the maker of a luxury plus womenswear collection offering clothes up to a size 32. Tamara was living the dream working in high-end fashion, but the body shaming and fatphobia of the industry was too much to bear. How did she recover from her trauma and launch a luxury clothing line for the truly plus?
Store: Tamara Malas
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Host
Anshuman Iddamsetty
Producers
Michelle Macklem
Emma Fedderson
Anshuman Iddamsetty
Senior Supervising Producer
Tammi Downey
Engineer
Jason ‘Metal’ Donkersgoed
Musical Score
Jim Guthrie
Tamara Malas is the maker of a luxury plus womenswear collection offering clothes up to a size 32. Tamara was living the dream working in high-end fashion, but the body shaming and fatphobia of the industry was too much to bear. How did she recover from her trauma and launch a luxury clothing line for the truly plus?
Store: Tamara Malas
Recommended: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Curvy Con
Host
Anshuman Iddamsetty
Producers
Michelle Macklem
Emma Fedderson
Anshuman Iddamsetty
Senior Supervising Producer
Tammi Downey
Engineer
Jason ‘Metal’ Donkersgoed
Musical Score
Jim Guthrie
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Musical Score
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