Actress Lisa Onorodion has called out the organizers of Africa Movie Viewers Choice Award (AMVCA) for discriminating against plus size women.
The actress lamented that no plus size ever makes it as the best dressed every year as the organizers have their own definition of what a woman should look like.
She further stated that the global plus size fashion industry is worth 20 billion dollars and so should be taken seriously in Africa.
Read her post, “The Fashion Industry creates a fantasy world of what women are supposed to wear, and sadly a lot of women struggle to fit into this. This fantasy world always excludes curvy and plus size women, even though the fashion industry continues to laud itself as democratic in the era of Social media and gender equality.
This is even made more obvious when the best dressed lists always excludes plus size women.”
“It is very disheartening that in Africa, where women are naturally curvaceous,we continue to discriminate against them. At the just concluded Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) award show, not one plus size woman made it to the best dressed list. Is style and best dressed list the preserve of only slim/ skinny women?
We have to do better. The global Plus size Fashion Industry is worth a whopping 20billion dollars, with an annual growth rate of about twice the total clothing market. Do the math!
That represents $20billion worth of buying power. Inclusion of all women in the fashion industry is the way forward. Only then can we say Fashion is truly democratic. To all the plus size women, you are beautiful,stylish,fabulous and worthy of every Best Dressed List #plussizematters #Amvca7”
Recall that the AMVCA had their awards last weekend and saw the likes of Beverly Naya, Timini Egbuson, Toyin Abraham and others winning in their category.
