The One About The Power Of Plus with Author Gianluca Russo
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Fashion and culture writer, Gianluca Russo, has spent much of his career documenting about fashion and culture, sure, but specialising in body diversity within it. Gianluca’s work has appeared in GQ, Glamour, InStyle, Teen Vogue, and now a new book including interviews with some of the biggest names in plus fashion and modelling titled: The Power Of Plus. Today, Gianluca joins us to discuss the book and the ongoing conversations of change, and why we should all care - plus or not.
You can find the book The Power Of Plus August 16th + follow on IG @powerofplus.co & @G_Russo1
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| 1:13.8 | which I mean, every single week I feel like there's a part of me that's like, yes, another week. |
| 1:18.7 | And then there's like, oh, I just got to get through. And then I get to the weekend. I'm like, |
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| 1:27.7 | you're here today. Today's chat is going to be really a cool one for me to learn because we're |
| 1:33.2 | talking about size inclusivity plus size clothing. It feels like we've progressed so much. Have we? |
| 1:40.8 | Do we have a ways to go? What are all the little conversations to have in between? |
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