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Victoria Beckham eyewear campaign controversy The new Summer 2018 eyewear campaign from Victoria Beckham’s eponymous label drew social media outrage for featuring what many consider to be an excessively thin model. 29-year-old Giedre Dukauskaite, who has walked the runway for labels like Stella McCartney and Dior in the past, is yet to comment on the […]

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Last December, Teen Vogue shook the Internet when it ran the scathing, now-infamous op-ed “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America” by Lauren Duca—partly because it was that good and partly because people couldn’t handle that a teen-fashion site had produced a piece of smart political commentary. Post-Gaslightgate, Teen Vogue has continued to up its political ante, […]

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When Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo opened its first Canadian location in Toronto last fall, it announced its arrival with larger-than-life billboards in unexpected spots. Subway platform walls were blanketed in ads. On social media, models wore the brand’s signature simplicity. But what made this campaign different was its ordinariness, from the random yet recognizable locations […]

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Standing out on the red carpet during Awards season isn’t always a good thing (remember Björk’s swan dress that she wore to the Oscars in 2001?), but when it’s done right, it gets filed under #stylegoals. Michelle Dockery hit the sartorial jackpot at last night’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in a colourful striped Elie […]

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Considering the fact that toe surgery has apparently become a “thing” (cosmetic surgery to slim down obese toes, for those of you not in the know), we’re apt to believe the girls behind SPARK Movement when they say that the pressure has never been stronger when it comes to conforming to beauty ideals.

These teenage activists are pointing a finger at teen-girl targeted magazines like Seventeen and Teen Vogue, saying their continued airbrushing and underrepresentation of “real” models is contributing to unattainable, unrealistic beauty ideals. They called on the magazines to completely cut out Photoshop (even down to airbrushing out pimples or brightening up a smile) and to focus on putting real girls in their publications.

“[These magazines] bombard young women with images that have been distorted and digitally altered . . . these photoshopped images are extremely dangerous to girls like us who read them, because they keep telling us: you are not skinny enough, pretty enough or perfect enough. Well, neither are the girls in the pictures!” the SPARK girls write on their home site.

Last week, SPARK member Julia Bluhm managed to pull together over 85,000 signatures for a petition to Seventeen, and the magazine actually responded. They published a “Body Peace Treaty” in their print edition, stating that they “never have, never will” alter the shape of models’ faces or bodies (which isn’t promising any change, really), and that they will make efforts to be more transparent with what goes into their editing process.

Following their co-SPARK member’s success, Carina Cruz and Emma Stydahar tried their hand at Teen Vogue yesterday, staging a guerilla red carpet runway show in front of the Conde Nast buildings and scoring an interview with Editor-in-Chief Amy Astley. Despite having racked up about 35,000 signatures for their Teen Vogue–specific petition, the girls told New York Daily News they were disappointed with their rushed conversation with Astley.

Though Cruz and Stydahar evidently did not get the response they were looking for, Teen Vogue’s publicist Erin Kaplan issued a statement saying the magazine is already careful to not retouch models’ body shapes in their pages.

While we doubt magazines can honestly promise a full rehaul of their image editing processes, considering how entrenched they are in years-long practices, we do commend the girls for trying to encourage their peers to seek real beauty. What do you think: should glossies continue to offer aspirational if unrealistic images of beauty, or should they start featuring girls that teens can more easily relate to?

Word: Mole

Usage: “Mole! Bloody mole! We’re not supposed to talk about the bloody mole, but there’s a bloody mole winking me in the face!” —Austin Powers

By Corinne Perez-Abergel, Gillian Pryor and Renee Reardin Graffiti on handbags?  That’s so Vuitton 2001. Or the runway backdrop at Issey Miyake’s fall menswear show. Marc, what’s your next move? [Nymag] Like we weren’t already jealous. Now Patrick Demarchelier has shot six of the hottest models around, along with their beautiful men for the February […]

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The Rodarte sisters were awarded a $50,000 grant as one of the 50 recipients of the 2009 US Artists Fellowships on Monday. [WWD] Hamish Bowles’ book signing for “The World in Vogue” took place at Oscar de la Renta’s LA store Monday night. Though the designer was not in attendance, guests like Lisa Love and […]

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