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Late Night Woman's Hour

Fatshion

Late Night Woman's Hour

BBC

Unknown

4.6640 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Fatshion: no, it's not a typo. Sofie Hagen on designing her own clothing line, and why she reserves the right to call herself 'fat.'

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.9

Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Emma Barnett.

0:08.3

Each month we bring together a group of brilliant, intelligent, honest and funny women,

0:13.0

and we ask them to tell us what they've been thinking about,

0:15.6

what makes them happy, sad, furious or excited, or all of the above. And they bring us everything. Politics, culture, relationships, furious, or excited, or all of the above.

0:21.4

And they bring us everything.

0:22.5

Politics, culture, relationships, love, hate, sport, the lot.

0:26.7

Nothing, and I really mean nothing, is off the table.

0:30.5

So who have we got around the table?

0:32.6

Comedian and podcaster Sophie Hagan, Vice Executive Editor Zing Singh,

0:40.4

and writer and journalist Yomi Adegoke.

0:45.0

Sophie, you're very passionate about fashion for people who are overweight.

0:45.5

Yeah.

0:48.5

And I know that you wanted to talk about Fatsun, if I can call it that.

0:50.7

Faction. Faction. I've not said that out loud before. I know.

0:51.1

It's easy to read.

0:53.1

Thank you.

1:11.6

I am enlightened. I did not know how to say it. Thank you for the feedback. I will now be able to say it in my job. Yeah. So it's weird to, I mean, I'm so not passionate about fashion, but I'm passionate about, I was going to say equality, but I'm not that big of a prick. I actually are about to vomit there. I know. I'm passionate about, I'm going to say quality, but I'm not that big of a prick. I actually think you're about to vomit there.

1:12.1

I know.

1:25.4

I'm passionate about, I'm only passionate about fashion in that it's one of the ways the fat people in particular discriminated against because it's so impossible to find anything.

1:30.2

I had a thin lady say to me recently. She said, oh, where's your jumpsuit from?

1:34.8

And I said, oh, it's from ASA's. And she said, oh, I just, is so difficult because there's so many pages of stuff. And I said, oh, you should try being fat because there's like two pages. And she just

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