About Kimberly Suggs — VSG (Very Stylish Girl)

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Kimberly Suggs is a plus-size style and fashion expert—a frontline leader in size inclusion long before “plus-size” was even recognized as its own genre. From the hallowed ground of New York City’s legendary Seventh Avenue to the couture shops of Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, she has been a purveyor of feminine style and milestone fashion from Manhattan to Milan, New York to the Netherlands.She has built closets, built confidence, and built a point of view: women size 14+ and 40+ are not an afterthought. We are the moment.As a fashion director, retail buyer, merchandise manager, and celebrity stylist, Kimberly transitioned from employee to entrepreneur—shifting from punching time cards to handing them out.She has styled celebrities, power brokers, and models while working as a fashion consultant, writer, and plus-size phenom. Her work has shaped trends and empowered everyday women—especially those over 40 and size 14+—to dress with confidence,elegance, and impact.Her mission is consistent: empower women to show up like they already belong in every room they enter, from boardroom to ballot line to boarding gate.

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Career Highlights​

• ​Merchandiser of the Cultivation Collection by Queen Latifah (debut line).

• The only plus-size stylist (off-set) for TLC’s hit show What Not to Wear.

• Credited in the bestselling style guide Dress Your Best by Clinton Kelly & Stacy London.

• Stylist for Queen Latifah—Academy Award nominee, Kennedy Center Honors recipient, and “First Lady of Hip-Hop.”

• In-house stylist for NYC-based IPM Model Management.

• Fashion & Style Editor for Global Woman magazine.

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Publishing & Media​

Kimberly has written for and been featured in leading fashion publications, including InStyle, Black Enterprise, Trace, BlackElegance, Juicy, Urban Mainstream, Venus Diva, V Magazine, and Amaze E-Magazine. She has helped shift the language around plus-size fashion—from “hide it” to “you’re going to see all of this.”

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Retail Leadership​

She has brought her expertise to respected plus-size retailers across the U.S., including Ashley Stewart, The Avenue, and The Forgotten Woman. More than 18 years at the New York's legendary fast fashion Easy Pickins.Throughout her career, she has dressed millions of women and elevated the conversation around plus-size style, milestone fashion, and Greater Later living. She brought high style to real bodies in real time—not six months after the trend, but right now.

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Influences & Mentors

Her voice has resonated with celebrated icons and style-makers, including André Leon Talley, Jackie Rogers, Tim Gunn, JoeSitt, Tony Hsieh, and Fern Mallis. Beyond shaping trends, Kimberly has shaped careers—mentoring more than twenty assistant buyers and buyers across generations of fashion professionals. She has sat in rooms where style, media, money, and policy meet—and made sure plus-size Black women were not left out of that conversation.

 

Today — The VSG Vision

Living by the credo “Wear Style Is Always in Fashion.” Your Style. Your Power. Your Terms.

Today, Kimberly leads The Shop by VSG—a curated collection of clothing, accessories, and legwear for women size 14+. Every piece is hand-picked to make a statement: bold, timeless, Greater Later. She is also the creator of the Coffee & Tea with VSG podcast, author of the X-Factor blog/Vlog , and is working to complete her upcoming book.Her work is not just about clothes. It’s political, cultural, spiritual, and global—rooted in Southern Black womanhood, church-bench polish, ballot-box power, and international passport energy.This site is a destination—a haven for plus-size women where style, confidence, and milestones are always in motion. With VSG,plus-size fashion is not an afterthought—it’s a movement.

 

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From Kimberly Suggs, Founder, VSG:  

Black women were America’s first fashion houses — couture-level makers, fitters, buyers, stylists, dressmakers, shaping how women showed up in public. That’s not new. That’s our inheritance.We are not “entering” luxury. We are the blueprint.Greater Later is not just aging well. It’s walking in the seamstress bloodline, the church-mother polish, the election-day power suit, the passport stamp. It’s ours.VSG exists to honor that legacy. We dress the women who built the culture, financed the movements, carried the families, protected the vote, ran the floor, and still showed up sharp on Sunday. We are not asking to be seen. We are reminding the world who taught it how to look.

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