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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 22/05/2026
This pattern aligns with decades of intersectionality scholarship. What we add is large-scale empirical evidence from the fashion industry. There is more in the paper: past attempts to regulate the industry (when they succeeded and when they failed), and a network analysis of industry prestige.
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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 22/05/2026
Finally, we find that non-white models are 4.5 times more likely to also be plus-size. The increase in diversity is carried across dimensions by the same group of individuals.
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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 22/05/2026
Even more striking: when we compare the Relative Fat Mass (think BMI) between the US population (NHANES data) and US models, the gap has not changed at all. There is almost no overlap between models and the general population.
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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 22/05/2026
Models are getting more diverse on almost every dimension we measured: ethnicity, body size, nationality, eye color, hair color... But the mean and interquartile range for body measurements are stable. How can both be true? Things are getting more diverse, but they don't really change?
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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 01/09/2025
* Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility * 🌍🚶 How much of our movement is about human choice and how much is constrained by geography and the spatial layout of locations? Our paper (out in Nature Human Behavior) gives you a practical way to tell: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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