Online fashion retailer Revolve is facing some serious social media backlash.
The website recently released a sweatshirt from the brand LPA that reads “Being fat is not beautiful it’s an excuse,” apparently an “as said to” comment left on plus-size model Paloma Elsesser’s Instagram account.
Twitter users were quick to point out the problematic nature of the top, which retails for $168 and was photographed on one of Revolve’s typically thin models.
Cosmopolitan UK cover girl Tess Holliday was among the first to speak up about the sweatshirt. “LOLLLLL @REVOLVE y’all are a mess,” she tweeted.
London-based artist Florence Given reached out to LPA on Instagram to inquire about the top, and posted its responses to her account.
“The sweatshirts went up early on revolve for some reason,” a representative for the brand told Given. “But it’s a collaboration with 5 women with the worst troll quotes. The point was to shine the light on how horrible trolling is. The proceeds benefit charity, so basically it’s the opposite of what it seems.”
LPA also clarified that all of the women involved had submitted the quotes and approved them, even snapping selfies in the sweatshirts for the label to run online. Revolve, meanwhile, has since removed the sweatshirts in question from its site.
The other designs feature similar as-told-to quotes from stars like Lena Dunham (“Horrible Result of Modern Feminism”), Suki Waterhouse (“If you translated a bum onto her face, she’d have a better face”) and Cara Delevingne (“Too boney to be boned”).
Given, however, also received a response from Elsesser, who said she was mortified with how her quote has been used and asked for it to be pulled from the project entirely.
Page Six has reached out to Revolve and has yet to receive a response.
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