Press Highlights

2024

Vogue “I'm a Transgender Woman—These are My Favorite Inclusive Fashion Brands”
Reckon “From Oklahoma to Florida, meet the queer chosen families creating safe spaces in hostile states”
Highsnobiety “How Boring Masculine Clothes Became The De Facto “Nonbinary Look”
CFDA “How Queer Experiences Impact Storytelling in Fashion“

2023

Elle “Where Have All the Plus-Size Bodies Gone?”
WWD “Fashion Designers Talk Pride”
Them “The Ultimate Guide to Transfemme Swimwear”
Women “9 Fashion Designers Who Upheld Their Promise To Support Body Inclusivity”
Refinery29 “The 5 Best Plus-Size Swim Brands, According To A Beach Lover Who’s Tried Them All”
Them “Tourmaline on the Power of Being Your Full, Sexy Self in Public”

2022

Vogue “Becca McCharen-Tran on her religious upbringing and attitudes on being queer”
CNN “From Chromat to Skims, inclusive design is radically changing the bathing suit silhouette”
Refinery 29 “Chromat Founder on Inclusivity in Fashion”
Instyle “The Designers Who Defined Fashion in 2021”
Fashionista “What does Fashion Criticism Mean to Today’s Designers?”
Bustle “The Best Gender-Affirming Swimwear”

2021

CNN “What does American fashion mean in 2021?”
Elle “Chromat Gave Me Permission to Celebrate Myself”
Instyle “Chromat’s Boundary-Breaking Swimwear Line is Made for “Girls Who Don’t Tuck”
Surface Magazine “Cooper Hewitt Announces the 2021 National Design Awards”
The New Yorker “The Met Gala Searches for America”
New York Magazine “The Best Plus-Size Sustainable Brands in 2021”
Vogue Runway “Chromat SS21 Runway Review”
Them “Inside Chromat and Tourmaline’s lifesaving swimwear show at Riis Beach”
The New York Times “Seeing New York Fashion Week”
New York Magazine’s The Cut “A Fashion Show in the Beach”

2020

WWD “Pride and Progress: Designers Open Up on LGBTQ Rights Movement”
Instyle “Chromat's Spring 2021 Makeup Look Was Inspired by Gender Fluidity”
Vogue “Chromat Sends Fashion Week a Powerful Message About Inclusion in Athletics”
Fashionista “Chromat Debuts Film by Tourmaline During New York Fashion Week.”

2019

Business of Fashion “Inclusivity Put Chromat on the Map. But a Decade In, Its Founder Shoots for More
Glamour Magazine “The Convention-Challenging Designer”
Nylon Magazine “Chromat Makes Swimwear That Will Never Make You Feel Bad About Your Body.”
Teen Vogue “Chromat Celebrated Its 10-Year Anniversary at NYFW by Revisiting the Brand’s Greatest Hits”
Paper Magazine “Chromat Lit Up the Runway With 10th Anniversary Show”
Daily Mail “Something for EVERY body”Vogue “The 2010s Were a Turning Point for Diversity in Fashion”
Elle Magazine “Can Female Designers Save New York Fashion Week?”
The Daily Beast “Becca McCharen’s Chromat Has Changed Fashion. Now Look at Her Clothes”

2018

Glamour Magazine ”Chromat's Becca McCharen-Tran on Curvy Mannequins, Size Inclusivity, and That Major Nordstrom Buy”
Marie Claire “Designers Norma Kamali and Becca McCharen-Tran Talk Body-Positive Fashion”
Refinery29 “In 2018, Chromat Has Already Ended The Diversity Conversation”
The Fader “Chromat made a fully edible seaweed bikini”
Out Magazine “Victoria's Secret: The Empire Built On Women Hating Themselves”
Fashionista “Chromat Snags Groundbreaking Order from Nordstrom up to Size 3X”
BBC “What is the ‘ideal’ female body shape?’
Buzzfeed “A Curvy Model Wore A "Sample Size" T-Shirt During New York Fashion Week And Twitter Is Cheering”
Teen Vogue “Chromat Debuts Pool Rules Campaign Featuring Denise Bidot, Mama Cax, and More”
Vogue “11 New York Designers Discuss Making Fashion in an Era of #MeToo and Time’s Up”
USA Today “Black Panther transports New York Fashion Week to Wakanda with inclusive show”
Shape Magazine “9 Women Whose Passion Projects Are Helping to Change the World”
Hyperallergic “How Fashion Has Constricted Women’s Bodies Over 250 Years”
El Mundo “Chromat Sube a la mujer real a la pasarela de Nueva York”

2017

Vogue Beauty “How a Newlywed Couple Turns 1 Makeup Bag Into 2 Very Different Looks”
Vogue “Chromat's Costumes for Ballet of Difference Are a Celebration of Diversity”
Paper Mag “Becca and Christine McCharen-Tran Marry Fashion and Music with Pride”
Glamour Magazine “Meet 6 People Pushing to Make Fashion Week More Inclusive”
Teen Vogue “Chromat, Gypsy Sport and Jahnkoy Designers Talk Diversity in Fashion”
Vogue “Catching Up With the 2017 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalists”
WWD “The Museum at FIT Takes a 250-Year Look at the Ideal Body in Fashion”
The New York Times “Wrestling With Politics at New York Fashion Week”
MIC “What the world needs now is Chromat, sweet Chromat”
Elle “The 'Straight/Curve' Documentary Gets Real About Diversity In Fashion”
Fashionista “How Museums and Cultural Institutions have Shaped the History of Body Diversity”

2016

Vogue “Designer Becca McCharen and Christine Tran’s Dance-Party Wedding in New York”
Stylecaster “Chromat Designer Becca McCharen on Gender, Tech, and Talking Cyborgs with -Kanye West”
Vogue “A Little Transgressive Valentine’s Day Shopping With Bodywear Designer Chromat”
Architectural Digest “Chromat’s Founder on Rem Koolhaas, 3-D Printing, and the Future of Fashion”
Billboard “Brooklyn-Based Clothing Line Chromat Proves Why Beyonce, Nicki Minaj & More Are Fans”
The Hollywood Reporter “At Chromat, The Show’s The Thing”
MIC “At NYFW, Chromat shows everyone how beautiful diversity really is — yet again”

2015

Fashionista “How Chromat Designer Becca McCharen Built a Fashion Business from Architecture School”
ABC News “ Your Dress of the Future Will Protect You From Danger and Make You Look Fabulous”
The New York Times “This Dress Knows When You’re Nervous”
The Los Angeles Times “Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Anna Wintour celebrate designers in L.A.”
Fortune “How a tech giant infiltrated New York Fashion Week”
Vogue “Introducing the 2015 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalists”
The Fashion Fund Unscripted Series on Amazon Prime
Featured in MIC
Featured in Paper Magazine
Featured in The Daily Mail
Featured in The Business of Fashion

2014

Recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30
Featured in The Fader
Featured in MTV for our collaboration with Beyonce

2013

Wall Street Journal “Mixing Math with Fashion”
Featured in Architectural Digest
Featured as a “Dream Job” for The Billfold by Jia Tolentino

Bex McCharen

Visual Art Social Practice About