Lindsay
Is the Medical Industry Exploiting Your Fear of Aging?
I feel like there could be an entire, separate blog devoted to picking off companies, one by one, as they terminate their ethics in favor of a higher profit margin. It happens every day, greedy muckity-mucks decide that “a little exaggeration won’t hurt” and they quickly downward spiral into the “Say Anything For A Dollar” [...]
Monster High Dolls & the Right to Self-Expression
Hey, Vampire Barbie – Don’t Showcha Your Chocha. Just kidding. This isn’t Vampire Barbie. This is Draculaura, the vegan? fashionista, and one of the birds in Mattel’s new partnership line with the author of YA novels by Lisa Harrison, Monster High. Main character of the novels, Frankie Stein, daughter of Frankenstein, and her alternate outfit. [...]
LiveBlog Media: Fat Head
There’s a documentary on Netflix right now that I think ought to be examined by our highly intelligent readership. I stumbled across it as someone who falls asleep to nature documentaries and/or conspiracy theory documentaries, so strange things pop up in my “Top Picks for Lindsay” screen. This is Fat Head. It’s a documentary by [...]
Body Shaming Knows No Bounds
The PR field is a sticky, winding road of ethical questions. You know your product is good, but how will it get noticed? What will make it stand out? In a world of digital media, where text and images are your only weapons when trying to contact an online publication, you have to choose your [...]
Betsey Gets It: A Wide Range of Body Shapes On NYFW Runway
Leave it to a Youthquaker to show the fashion business how to run things. Betsey Johnson, notorious for “over the top” or OTT (this is a permissible internet acronym now, did you know?), girly designs sent about a gazillion models down her runway – half of which could easily be confused for people I see [...]
Noteworthy #5: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld
Julia Restoin-Roitfeld is the daughter of recently resigned French Vogue editor, Carine Roitfeld.
Shed Your Weight Problem Here.
A simple post for some simple truths. The relevance of appearance magazines to body image is evident in a recent survey of adolescent girls: 69% reported that magazine pictures influence their idea of the perfect body shape, and 47% claimed that the pictures influenced them to want to diet to lose weight (Fieldetal.,1999). Analyses of [...]
Pepsi Debuts New Skinny Diet Can for “Active Women’s Network.” Subtle.
Ohhh, the marriage of design and marketing can be a rocky one. Just in time for New York Fashion Week (SURELY A COINCIDENCE, DON’T YOU THINK?), Pepsi debuted their new Diet Pepsi can. It’s so chic. Fast Company, my favorite magazine and the site from which I pilfered this image, stated my feelings perfectly: Now [...]
Crystal Renn Feels the Most Pressure From The Public & Media
Crystal Renn is a popular subject here at TD, and a beautiful, variously-sized fashion model. Recently, she has come under fire – not for a vicious scandal, not for a crime or a love triangle… But because of her fluctuating weight. Once a “straight size” model, Renn eventually admitted to struggling with an eating disorder [...]
Women Who Soar: Kayla of Maria Carillo High School
Kayla is a senior at Maria Carillo High School. She is probably… 18, 17… Clearly a theatrical prodigy and maybe one of the most courageous women I’ve ever seen. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InN6bt0B8x0 I want to be like her when I grow up. Coming out to your entire high school, and then issuing a plea for equality – [...]
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