Germany's most popular magazine for women, Brigitte, will no longer feature professional models on its pages. Instead, it will use images of "real life" women. Brigitte's editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert told the Guardian that the magazine will stop using skinny models from the...
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Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger mocks Obama on his physical appearance at a campaign rally for McCain. Schwarzenegger who we all know was once a Mr. Universe and starred in action films such as...
Christine St. Pierre, the Quebec Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, announced her plans to create a charter that would ban ultra-thin models from runways and magazines. ""We have to...
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Leave it to a teen-focused entertainment series like 90210 to continue the relentless promotion of a distorted, 100-pound image of beauty to its vulnerably impressionable youth audience. And although this not...
With the return of fashion weeks around the globe, the narrative around models' weight has also rebounded. In recent years some fashion weeks have banned too-skinny models from the runway in an effort to...
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The AP, an unlikely fashion authority, ran an article yesterday that suggests men are spending more on clothes than women. The writer says it's due to a quick and dramatic shift in men's styles toward tighter and...
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Opinion" [LINK to video of "tortured" Canadian boy who fought for al Qaeda, watch this first and then read.] Truthfully, I have been questioned much harder by school administrators than this kid, who quite possibly killed an American soldier, was. [Side note: the school...
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"The skinny kid with the funny name from Hawaii had a great run. By forcing all four other candidates off the ballot, including the woman who had reached out to help him, he maneuvered his way into the Illinois State Legislature. There, he found an extortionist...
I know skinny pants are all the rage and everything...but how do you enforce that kind of style conformity? Oh right. That's how:"The Florida Senate wants public school students to pull up their pants. Lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that could mean suspensions for students...
"A study done by American Journal of Public Health stated that lesbians are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death.1. Men do not care about appearance as much as women. ...
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While reviewing Paris Haute Couture Fashion week photos, some literally
striked me and required some time to digest. It wasn' t about the
avangard shapes or bold colors; it was about some of the models the
clothes...
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If America is the hyperpower then Gisele Bundchen is the hypermodel of
the world and when she demands a certain perk in her contract then
everyone bounces to attention. The...
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French Health Ministry has reviewed the issue of skinny models on
the French catwalks and suggested that such models need special
attention, but they will not be banned from the podiums, as the French
Health Ministry officials said on Friday.
After two Latin American models...
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"Do you prefer the girly-girl look of Paris Hilton or the womanly-strong look of, say, Sharon Stone? Well, girly is definitely over, as pink and frilly clothes are being replaced by a more graceful, womanly look. Elegant femininity is now being challenged by a contrasting...
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"(CBS) CHICAGO In the fashion industry, thin has always been in, but never like now. Doctors in the Chicago area are trying to get the word out that there is such a thing as too skinny, and that includes fashion models. CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports those...