"As sure as there's going to be trends, you're always going to have the plus-size community - and they're going to want clothes," Keyondra said. "People will always want fashion-forward clothing, and that's where Black designers like us come in." The artist Peter Paul Rubens was famous for painting voluptuous bodies. He also painted one of the rare depictions of a powerful Black female figure in Western Renaissance art in "The Four Continents," also known as "The Four Rivers of Paradise."įine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Imagesĭuring the Renaissance, fuller figures were deemed beautiful, as captured by the voluptuous bodies in paintings by artists like Titian. But explorers and colonists who traveled to Africa claimed they saw "dramatic feats of eating and women, in particular, who were fat," Strings said.
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