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Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach, thigh and torso-slimming garment was worn by just about every woman until the 1960s and was cleverly advertised using all types of tactics including before & afters photographs and peer pressure. The trickeries of the before & after format [...]
This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter recently attracting renewed criticism of Barbie’s unrealistic body. The thing is, I was kind of obsessed with Barbie myself. I played for hours with those six-inch pieces of plastic, creating unnecessary drama with Ken and cruising around my bathroom in [...]
“Poses” is the project of spanish artist, Yolanda Dominguez, whose work I’ve been keeping in my vault of goodies for quite a while. In an unapologetic criticism of the absurdity of the fashion industry, Yiolanda uses a group of real women in real life settings to imitate several photographs found in fashion magazine editorials. In [...]
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 [...]
I‘m kind of excited about these videos I found today. By now, you probably know where I stand on beauty culture and body image and so I’ll let some other people do the talking this time round. This first video link is called “Beauty Culture”, a documentary that has been selected to appear at the [...]
You could say I have history of dismissing style bloggers that spend half their time doing photo shoots of themselves. But with this one, I’ll bend the rules a little. Is it because she’s not the typical size of a fashion blogger? Admittedly, it’s what first caught my eye, but that’s just skimming the [...]
Kind of true but is it really that simple? Can we really just blame all this evil on Mr. Ralph Lauren being too cheap with his fabric purchasing? And little Kate Bosworth there at the bottom? And that magenta cartoon lady for being a little bit too obsessed with famous people? Is it really all [...]
With journalism like this, who needs high school bullying? The writers at the DailyMail must be having a great ol’ time at their offices, waiting for photographs of female celebrities to be the butt of their jokes all day, coming up with hilarious punchlines headlines to boot, which if they’re lucky, might drive the celebrities they write [...]
78% of 18 year old women are unhappy with their bodies and this is probably a large part of the reason why… YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Starved of a Realistic Female Body Image? Flesh & Curves this way…
When I came upon this piece of news this morning, I felt a small twinge of triumph; a bit of a “f**k you, so there” to the people in the fashion industry that continue to endorse an image like the one above. A team of researchers from the London School of economics and City University [...]
I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my
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I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always
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Over the past few years, there have been a few big stories in the media about male models breaking
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So it’s not yet 11am here in Paris and I’m pretty much wasted on some brandy tea that I
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You might remember the sassy New York casting director Preston, from his memorable “I Made
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Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach,
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Not to be confused with your average airplane barf bag or something to carry around that mushy
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This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter
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A new HBO documentary that airs on Monday night in the states has managed to track down some of the
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Casting director, Preston Chaumsulit has been documenting his adventures in a series called
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Do boys have any idea what girls have to go through in preparation for a beach holiday? From the
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“Poses” is the project of spanish artist, Yolanda Dominguez, whose work I’ve been
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At first, seeing these celebrated paintings which have been photoshopped by Italian artist Anna
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There’s a bit of a buzz in the film world about a controversial new documentary, Are all Men
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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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