self-image
Back to Basics: Advertising’s Image of Women
Sometimes it’s best to get back to the basics. The Demoiselles is founded upon the idea that every body – our real bodies, without cosmetic enhancements and Photoshop – is beautiful, and that we must fight against a greedy, marketing-based media to remind ourselves and others of our natural beauty to avoid losing ourselves and [...]
Youngest Grandmother is 23 – But What Does She Look Like?
I don’t get it. This morning I read an article on the world’s youngest grandmother, who had her first child at twelve and her first grandbaby at twenty-three: “Mum-of-two Rifca Stanescu was 12 when she had her first child Maria. She urged the girl not to follow her example – but Maria gave birth to [...]
Sexy: Approach With Caution
If you ask any catty office workers, high school misfits, or fashion-conservative connoisseurs, they will tell you that the best way to go from looking really chic to really, really tacky is to over-sexy-fy yourself. This is a delicate topic… Lines within the “sexy” realm are easily blurred, erased and completely re-drawn – sometimes all [...]
Naked.
How long has it been since you’ve spent any time naked? I’m not talking out-of-the-shower-and-into-a-towel naked, or changing-clothes naked. I’m talking about being purposefully naked. If it’s been a while – more than a month – I suggest you try it. Close the curtains, shut the blinds, and hang towels over your mirrors if you need [...]
Greener on the Other Side
It’s funny how one sentence can remind you of your purpose. Between Elle’s fashion events and business meetings in Chicago, and my happy hour coffee dates and handmade rummagings in Seattle, it can be hard for us to keep up on anything not “business related.” That’s why, more often than not, Miss Elle and I [...]
From the Birds: A Body Mantra
Think back to a day when you felt amazing. Your waistline was playing nice, your body had perfect proportions, and your skin seemed to glow. What was it that brought on that effortless beauty? What experiences and words created the type of grace that let you put on your shortest dress and reddest lips, without feeling [...]
Can’t Reach the Top Shelf, But I Can Be a Top Model
If you’re like me, and addicted to the dumbed-down fashion statement that is America’s Next Top Model (that’s right, I admit it), you know that the media’s going crazy over Tyra’s choice to cast short girls for Cycle 13 of the show. Just one little change on the first page of the series’ eligibility requirements [...]
Fictitious Media Standards
A recent article in Newsweek asked what the media standard of super-thin models is doing to our society. With the close of NYFW in February, Newsweek reported that an epidemic of slimness was on the rise again! They mentioned the symposium at Bryant Park on weight guidelines in the fashion industry – noting harrowing stories [...]
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