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What's it like to be a male plus-size model at London Fashion Week ?

Jonelle Awomoyi, Jameel Shariff and Jared Evitts
BBC News
Getty Images Model James Corbin at London Fashion week. He is wearing a brown robe, walking down the catwalk with his arms out wide.Getty Images
James Corbin has been a model since he left university in 2020

James Corbin never expected to break into the fashion industry.

But a message he got in 2020 - thanks to a photographer who'd saved a picture of him a year earlier - changed all that.

"I got a DM, and I thought it was to help out on set, and it was actually to model for Vogue Italia," says James.

James is a plus-size male model - and says "meaningful change" for him would mean all body types get equal representation and the category no longer exists.

After walking down the catwalk at London Fashion week, he says modelling should be about "showing people how to wear things in different ways, their bodies included."

James says he initially thought the message from Vogue was a prank.

"I said it to the photographer: 'Is this a joke":[]}