--- title: Lilly Pulitzer Employee Posted Fat-Shaming Cartoons on Wall description: While the plus-size line of its Target collaboration is only available online canonical: https://time.com/3896975/lilly-pulitzer-cartoons-fat-shaming/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-26T21:01:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:20.154Z og:title: Lilly Pulitzer Employee Posted Fat-Shaming Cartoons on Wall og:description: While the plus-size line of its Target collaboration is only available online og:url: https://time.com/3896975/lilly-pulitzer-cartoons-fat-shaming/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lilly Pulitzer Employee Posted Fat-Shaming Cartoons on Wall twitter:description: While the plus-size line of its Target collaboration is only available online twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lilly Pulitzer Employee Posted Fat-Shaming Cartoons on Office Wall > Sponsored content. 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The drawings, which an online _New York_ [article](http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/05/inside-lilly-pulitzers-print-crazy-headquarters/slideshow/) showed displayed on a wall in the Lilly Pulitzer offices, show [two overweight women. ](http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/05/inside-lilly-pulitzers-print-crazy-headquarters/slideshow/2015/05/15/style%5Ftribe%5Flillypulitzersheadquarters/lilly-pulitzer-08/)On one, a caption says “Just another day of fat, white and hideous… you should probably just kill yourself.” The other is accompanied with the phrase, “Put it down, carb-face!” > [](https://twitter.com/mollymulshine/status/603224725972717568) A Lilly Pulitzer spokesperson said the illustrations were displayed by a lone member of staff but Twitter users erupted with outrage at cartoons many saw as fat-shaming: > [](https://twitter.com/socarolinesays/status/603226823644848128) > [](https://twitter.com/BLACKOUT101/status/603288226598526976) > [](https://twitter.com/arabellesicardi/status/603237350739714049) > [](https://twitter.com/lfrazz19/status/603247010163126272) “These illustrations were the work of one individual and were posted in her personal work area,” says Jane Schoenborn, Lily Pulitzer’s Vice President of Creative Communications. “While we are an employer that does encourage people to decorate their own space, we are a female-dominated company and these images do not reflect our values. We apologize for any harm this may have caused.” The kerfuffle comes a few weeks after some accused the designer’s new collaboration with Target of discriminating against plus-sized customers; [while all sizes up to 14](http://fortune.com/2015/05/26/lilly-pulitzer-fat-shaming/) are carried in stores, larger sizes are only available online. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3896975/lilly-pulitzer-cartoons-fat-shaming/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3896975/lilly-pulitzer-cartoons-fat-shaming/"},"headline":"Lilly Pulitzer Employee Posted Fat-Shaming Cartoons on Office Wall","datePublished":"2015-05-26T21:01:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:20.154Z","description":"While the plus-size line of its Target collaboration is only available online","url":"https://time.com/3896975/lilly-pulitzer-cartoons-fat-shaming/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","fat","Body Image","fashion","weight","Cartoons"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3896975/lilly-pulitzer-cartoons-fat-shaming/","name":"Lilly Pulitzer Employee Posted Fat-Shaming Cartoons on Office Wall"}}]}] ```