Lane Bryant began as a maternity-wear brand and soon introduced dedicated plus-size lines, coining and legitimizing the term. It created the first real foundation for inclusive fashion. The brand's ...
Lane Bryant has long championed plus-size fashion, a historically overlooked and underserved category, thanks to its pioneering founder, Lena Bryant, so to toast the brand’s 120th anniversary this ...
Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. In 1909, dressmaker Lena Bryant was working out of a shop on 5th Avenue and 120th Street in Harlem. There, under the Lane Bryant label, she designed and ...