25-year analysis of 793,199 fashion records finds that while racial and phenotypic diversity in modeling has increased, the median model physique has not changed — body-size "diversity" comes from rare plus-size outliers, and non-White models are 4.5× more likely to be cast as plus-size.

25-year analysis of 793,199 fashion records finds that while racial and phenotypic diversity in modeling has increased, the median model physique has not changed — body-size "diversity" comes from rare plus-size outliers, and non-White models are 4.5× more likely to be cast as plus-size.