Paloma Elsesser on Purpose, Representation and the New Rituals of Body Care

Diversity and body positivity have been important themes shaping the fashion conversation over the past decade. Yet a gap remains between the industry’s ideals and its reality. Few people have experienced that gap – and pushed back against it – more visibly than Paloma Elsesser. She’s walked the biggest runways, landed the biggest covers and used her platform to challenge the industry’s standards around bodies, beauty and who gets to be seen. Now, she’s taking that authority somewhere new: building a body care brand rooted in the rituals she grew up with. “My mother...