Former teen model and Australian television personality, Charlotte Dawson has taken to Twitter to stop young women entering the modelling ‘machine’. ‘I truly adored my time on [Australia’s Next Top Model] but my heart tells me I don’t think young girls should pursue the modelling world,’ she tweeted. The reflection is conceivably influenced by…
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When I was of a teen mag consuming age, there was a competition that was run by a skincare brand. Centred on the theme of ‘best friends’, it asked pairs of perfectly tanned thirteen year olds to write in about their friendship with the chance of winning a glossy fashion shoot. Now, I was a…
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Growing up in London, England born to a white mother and a black father had conned me into a false sense of security that the world accepted and rejoiced diversity. That is until I moved to Australia and attempted to join modeling agencies that thrived on extraordinary ideals. And so began my journey into investigating…
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The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and “completely virtual,” the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then “dresses” it by drawing on its clothes, and digitally pastes on the heads of real women in post-production. …
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