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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: ‘The Power of Plus’: Russo was healed by telling the stories of courageous women
Description: Gianluca Russo became a journalist because he likes telling stories.He has just published his first book, “The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution.”The book is “For the women who changed my life and the people who saved it.”“I wanted to dedicate it to the women the book is about,” Russo said of the plus-size models he interviewed, explaining the first line of the dedication.“But then I really stepped back and I thought … What’s the purpose here? I had gone through such a difficult period in life, from age 18...