About

Renee Cafaro Atelier creates haute couture exclusively for bigger bodies. Cafaro strives to bring luxury and opulence to plus size clients while championing ethical, local and fair wage business practices. Their designs have been seen on ITV’s Alison Hammond, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, BAFTAs red carpet, CBS Good Morning America, iHeartRadio Breakfast Club, Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, and the 2023 Oscars.

Cafaro is best known to the plus size fashion world as the US Editor for the premier print media for curvy women, SLiNK Magazine, and as influencer formerly known as FoxyRoxyFashion on Instagram. As a fashion expert, journalist and consumer, Renee is all too aware of the pitfalls in the industry which is why she has committed to providing high-quality items with a focus on fit and functionality for sizes 16-32.

In March of 2020 as the world went into quarantine, Renee set out to solve two problems- sudden unemployment in her industry and the need for masks and hospital gowns in New York hospitals. She committed $25,000 to a project she called “Si Sew Puede” on Facebook, networking sewers with front line workers in need of PPE before they were readily available. Months later as the magazine and fashion world was still on hold, she enlisted the help of several talented garment makers from her PPE program, to help her develop her designs left on the back burner for years. One of which is a revolutionary patent-pending problem-solving dress that Cafaro dreamt up back in 2009 when she was still in her first successful career in New York politics. This dress is already causing buzz on social media will be available up to size 5x. It’s built in support for DDD+ cups and versatile styling make strapless bras and overpacking a thing of the past!

Renee creates as she lives – with purpose. Renee Cafaro Atelier is NYC-made from patterns to production, by her and a collection of BIPOC New Yorkers from materials purchased locally in hopes to revitalize the Garment District one dollar at a time.