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“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky when looking at his iconic photograph of model Simone D’Aillencourt landing in a glass bubble on the River Seine in Paris. “But it was 1963,” says Melvin who designed the bubble for the surreal Harper’s Bazaar magazine spring shoot. The plexiglass bubble was hung [...]
At first, seeing these celebrated paintings which have been photoshopped by Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano, would probably leave many women feeling a little disheartened. Isn’t there enough worshiping of the skinny female frame today? Must we manipulate the only form of art left in the world that still honours the beauty of a curvaceous [...]
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It seems we’re not the only culture obsessed with chasing unattainable ideals of beauty. If you trawl the internet as much as I do, you may have stumbled upon some articles gaining online buzz with titles such as “Asian girls: before & after make-up”. There are now hundreds of these before and after photos online [...]
In the aftermath of Thanksgiving, when many of us are perhaps feeling a little like stuffed turkeys ourselves, I thought a post featuring models looking like mere mortals could come in handy. Let’s call it ‘feel better about yourself’ Friday! We all love a good ‘before & after’ don’t we? So let’s get started. Here are [...]
Above is American Apparel’s latest campaign poster, featuring ‘Eva’, lifting her arms to reveal underarm stubble. Sexy? Edgy? Totally awkward? I just can’t decide. Then again, that’s exactly what Dov Charney, CEO of the retail chain selling fashion basics, is aiming for. He’s got me talking about it and got you reading about it, looking [...]
1. Making Fun of Hipsters (Even though we all have something in common with that Youtube video) ‘Hipster’ became mainstream in 2010… whether you liked it or not. And then one day… someone wrote a song about it.. And suddenly, the fear of looking too hipster when getting dressed in the morning became very real… In [...]
For my more mature readers, do excuse the title of this post, I’m being heavily sarcastic. Behold, the images featuring mature models from the “Forever Love” editorial by Tom Ford as guest editor to the December/January issue of French Vogue. While I initially found it a tad uncomfortable browsing through these photographs (which I’m [...]
How many images do you think you’ve looked at so far today and without realizing the connection, felt less inclined to eat that lovely sandwich your stomach has been groaning for all morning? For every perfectly smooth-skinned celebrity you’ve seen in the latest beauty campaigns, are you edging closer towards buying an anti-wrinkle cream that [...]
In the name of all things stupid, Sony France thought it would be a great idea to market the
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Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach,
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“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin
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This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter
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“Poses” is the project of spanish artist, Yolanda Dominguez, whose work I’ve been
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Disclaimer: This is a not a very serious article about the fashion at Cannes this year. Do not
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At first, seeing these celebrated paintings which have been photoshopped by Italian artist Anna
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Just a bit of fun, not intended to be snarky in regards to how they’ve aged. I’ve been
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I‘m kind of excited about these videos I found today. By now, you probably know where I stand
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You could say I have history of dismissing style bloggers that spend half their time doing photo
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Woody Allen’s recent string of ‘European holiday’ films have the power to set the
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How do you measure the likeability of a celebrity? You ask yourself if you would trust them with
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Kind of true but is it really that simple? Can we really just blame all this evil on Mr. Ralph
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It seems we’re not the only culture obsessed with chasing unattainable ideals of beauty. If
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With journalism like this, who needs high school bullying? The writers at the DailyMail must be
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