If fatshionistas are willing to pay for luxury goods, why won't the industry make them for them? It's not like those companies are rolling in it right now.
Yet Lane Bryant, the Goliath retailer offering sizes 14-28, believes its customer is most concerned with comfort, then fit and finally style. "She's not there on the cutting edge of fashion," says President Brian Woolf. "She might be a year behind."
Don't let the fatshionistas hear you say that, buddy.
2010 — Margit Detweiler, "Plus-size", The Spokesman-Review, 31 July 2010:
This cocktail party and jean “sampling” was thrown by Torrid earlier this month for some of its best customers: young bloggers who proudly call themselves "fatshionistas."
2011 — Hanne Blank, Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them), Ten Speed Press (2011), →ISBN, page 39:
I am partial to dresses with voluminous skirts, but there are some fatshionista bloggers out there who are traditional apples and who also work out the sheath dresses and pencil skirts like nobody's business.