Fashion
Danielle Williams Eke got brutally honest on her thoughts about plus-size fashion.
11 Honore does not believe in compromising style for size.
The brands Design Director, Danielle Williams Eke, joined in 2019 and has already left a lasting impact.
Why do you think its important to hire Black, plus-size, female designers?
There are some really great plus-size, Black designers with their own independent brands out there.
We understand what we want and what our homegirls want.
We can speak to a different audience than they’re typically speaking to.
What was it like to collaborate with two fellow Black plus-size women for the11 Honore X Danielle Brooks collection?
Danielle had a very clear idea of what she wanted her styles to be, the silhouettes to be.
Shes in this fashion world, she’s at New York fashion week with Christian Siriano.
She gets to see all of the beauty that exists, that many times doesnt come in plus sizes.
This was her opportunity to serve this customer the things she’s seeing out there.
There’s power in the Black woman.
What is the importance of making luxury fashion accessible to plus-sizes?
There was a time where it was like, “Okay, I’m done shopping at Forever 21.
I’m done shopping at all of these fast fashion places.
I want to start investing in my wardrobe.
With11 Honore collection, that’s where we’re starting.
So that range is really important to verify it’s accessible, specifically for this customer.
What’s your hope for the future of plus-size fashion?
A lot of these bigger brands, it’s clear that they don’t care.
They don’t go through a full fit process.
They don’t even give a shot to understand what this customer wants.
They’ll take their main straight-size styles and dumb it down into plus-size.
Plus-size fashion was born out of a community.
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