Lena Dunham’s Latest Project Is A Plus-Size Clothing Line

April 6, 2021 / Posted by:

If you have a good memory, you may have just rolled through some of the messy outfits you’ve seen Lena Dunham in, but messy isn’t the target for Lena’s clothing line. She recently announced that she had created a small plus-size clothing line with online retailer 11 Honoré, and it’s surprisingly boring and normal. But because it’s Lena Dunham, there’s of course an element of controversy surrounding the whole thing, and some plus-size customers are not happy with her foray into fashion. But let’s all take a moment to thank the universe that Lena focused her creative spirit on a messy clothing line, and not on a series of Hunter Biden romance novels.

Much like many bodies, Lena’s body has been on a journey over the past few years, and we know this, because Lena’s vocabulary doesn’t include the word “shy,” and she’s been more than happy to share that journey with the general public. We’ve seen Lena’s body naked, both Photoshopped and not, slimmed down, and bigger. That last one is where Lena currently is now and because of that, Lena says she was having a hard time finding anything that worked for her. But Lena is rich and famous, so rather than just crossing her fingers every time she entered the Ava & Viv section at Target like the rest of us, Lena decided to make her own fashions. That’s how the very fancy-sounding 11 Honoré x Lena Dunham collection was born. And if you are the Target type, turn back now, because we’re talking $298 for a jacket. via The New York Times:

This week 11 Honoré x Lena Dunham debuts, a collaboration between Ms. Dunham and the e-tail site that has championed high fashion for plus size women, getting runway designers to make their brands accessible beyond Size 10. It will be 11 Honoré’s first celebrity foray, and it is a tightly edited collection of only five items, because, Ms. Dunham said, “I’ve totally given up on the idea of being any type of impresario or person who had something to say to everyone.” She was speaking over a Zoom call from London, where she has been holed up shooting a film.

“Right now the only thing I’m doing is speaking about my own experience,” she said. “So this clothing line is a direct response to my experience.”

Even though she’s launching a little body positivity side-project here, she’s not really a huge fan of the body positivity movement, as it can sometimes only apply to already conventionally hot bodies, like Kim Kardashian’s.

“It doesn’t mean I haven’t felt a lot of body hatred in lockdown,” she said. She is not a fan of some current terminology, of words like “plus” or “curve” or “body positive.”

“The thing that’s complicated about the body positive movement is it can be for the privileged few who have a body that looks the way people want to feel positive. We want curvy bodies that look like Kim Kardashian has been up-sized slightly. We want big beautiful butts and big beautiful breasts and no cellulite and faces that look like you could smack them on to thin women.”

The main reason Lena wanted to design clothing? Because her options were kind of fugly, apparently.

“What I really love in fashion is a certain level of playfulness and winky intelligence that people just don’t think bigger women want or understand. No one thinks plus women have a sense of humor, and if they do, it’s, ‘We’re going to put a watermelon on your skirt, you sassy girl!’ None of it has subtlety or true sophistication.”

Here’s Lena modeling her 5-piece collection, which retails from $98 to $298 for that jacket:

So where do the haters come in? Pretty much right after it was revealed that Lena’s collection goes up to size 26, which is about a 3X. Some were quick to point out on Twitter that while it’s an extended range, it’s not really plus-size. Others noted that it’s not exactly affordable.

But there is one person who is very excited, and that’s Meghan McCain.

Why do I feel like when Lena was informed that one of the hosts from The View was hyping up her clothing line, Lena’s voice dropped and she said: “Oh no, please tell me it’s Whoopi.”

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