With the headline “Bye-bye booty: heroin chic is back”, a New York Post article this month announced that thin is in, again. Or maybe it never left. No, it left, but has returned, perhaps as a backlash to the past decade of progress on size inclusivity in the fashion industry.
The response to the Post’s glorification of heroin chic was a wave of dissent. “OUR BODIES ARE NOT TRENDS. SAY IT WITH ME,” Jameela Jamil wrote on Instagram. “I’m starting Not Hungry Chic. Happy Chic. Fu*ck off Chic? Anything but this.” The Vogue culture writer Emma Specter tweeted: “Do people who insist the return of crop tops and low-rise jeans means we all have to adhere to early-aughts levels of compulsory thinness realize i will just………wear those things w my large and beautiful stomach hanging out?”
