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Y-3 and Virgin Galactic Unveil Astro Fashion Collab for First Commercial...
Designers from Craig Green to Fendi are busy sending sleepwear-inspired collections for next winter down the runways of London and Milan - 'to sleep perchance to dream' - and while they do so there are...
View ArticleBarring Transgender Women Like Me From Beauty Pageants Is Wrong
My name is Jocelyne Yendall, or just Jossy for short. I am a 29-year-old Northern lass, with an interest in performing arts and modelling. I was assigned male at birth that means I was biologically...
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"My Makeup Changes People's Lives: Laura Geller on How Working With Icons...
I arrive at the QVC Beauty Bash with my cynical London reporter hat on. I'm here to cover makeup artist Laura Geller's first appearance at the mammoth event, where the shopping channel's biggest buyers...
View ArticleMy Design Process
I have been working with fair trade jewellery since the trend first started, because I have always worked with friends and family abroad. Ensuring a piece is fair trade is very important to me, as it...
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Lacking Infurmation: Are We Becoming a Nation of Accidental Fur Buyers?
Walking down many UK high-streets this winter has been like stumbling on to the set of Game of Thrones: barely a minute goes by without spotting someone with a thick animal fur mane on a jacket hood,...
View ArticleThe Winter Coat
There is something rather special about a very good winter coat. It feels set apart from other garments; it offers you its own kind of relationship. Unlike other, more transient, items, the coat has...
View ArticleYou Don't Need to Be Middle Class to Be a Beauty Blogger, But It Helps
Bella sets her camera up on a tripod, making sure to position it in front of a window to get the most light. She checks herself in the camera screen, brushes her hair behind her ears, and takes a deep...
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2016 Beauty Trends for the Over-30 Beauty
As someone (well) over 30, I find I prefer to take beauty trends with a grain or two of salt. My skin isn't perfect, my budget isn't infinite, and I actually have to go to work wearing this stuff. I...
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Page Three, Feminism and Me: What I Learned From a Glamour Model
It's been almost a year to the day since the Sun stopped printing Page 3. For months, 'No More Page 3', a campaign group led by Lucy Holmes, had worked tirelessly to remove topless models from the Sun....
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#Fashion4All: Join Our Campaign to Champion Diversity on the Catwalk
A love of fashion can be empowering - it can bring moments of great joy and bolster confidence. Just ask Anna Wintour, who is often quoted as saying: "If you can't be better than your competition, just...
View ArticleOur Models Will Have No Choice But to Eat
We've written previously on body image and how to the exploitation of fashion models. According to various press reports this month we could expect the final conclusion of committee hearings and...
View ArticleUK Must Catch Up and Lead on Fashion Diversity
The idea for Models of Diversity was born back in 2008, when I took part in Gok Wan's "Miss Naked Beauty". Thousands of beautiful women, representing of all of us - all races, sizes, shapes and ages....
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Stacey Manière: A Visionary Pioneer for Fashion
When I read that this year's Bright New Things at Selfridges were going to be some of the earliest pioneers of responsible fashion, I couldn't wait to take a look. Buried deep in the heart of the...
View ArticleHow to Start a Fashion Revolution
It seems an increasing amount of shoppers are feeling the frustration when it comes to trying to buy clothes with an ethical or environmental conscience. Fashion Revolution Day, on 24 April, is one day...
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A Day in the Life
Life as a model is a tough one. Constantly being judged on your appearance, criticised if body size dares to change slightly and publicly shamed on social media if, God forbid, you make a fashion faux...
View ArticleBrooklyn Beckham Photographing Burberry - Celebs in Fashion is Nothing New
As you have probably seen this week, David and Victoria Beckham's son Brooklyn caused some controversy when it was revealed that he had been booked by Burberry to shoot their latest fragrance campaign....
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Is My Black Not Beautiful?
I still remember the disappointment to this very day. Before I went to boarding school I had never read a fashion magazine. I grew up on a council estate in London and fashion magazines were a luxury...
View ArticleWhy Fashion Needs a Seat at the Table of Mainstream Education.
We have all seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk entitled Do Schools Kill Creativity? You know which one I mean, the most watched TED talk of all time, the 20-minute masterpiece whereby the English author...
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Barbie Fashionistas Bring Body Diversity and Mad Shoe Game
You never forget your first Barbie. Mine was Crystal Barbie and I'm still obsessed with that shimmery holographic fabric and outlandish Dynasty dresses to this day. Now, thanks to Mattel's latest major...
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We Need Honest Depictions of Women of a Certain Age in Our Beauty Adverts
One of the things that impelled me to launch a makeup business in 2013 with products specifically formulated for older faces was the way in which the beauty industry utterly ignored me as a...
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