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The waves of #MeToo, a movement that has been sweeping the world since Harvey Weinstein was publicly exposed as a sexual predator in October 2017, have finally reached the shores of India. For the past year, though allegations against powerful men in Hollywood and North American media have been tumbling out in a near-steady drip, […]

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On October 15, 2017, American actress and activist Alyssa Milano sent a simple message out onto the Internet: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” It was this gesture, which brought forth thousands of replies, that put the #MeToo movement in the mainstream. Now, just under […]

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As a corporate senior communications specialist, Angela Moffat* gets plenty of face time with C-suite executives. This, she suspects, is the part of her job that can trigger a territorial instinct in female colleagues. The two times she made the decision to confide in higher-ranking women about an area she was struggling with, the response […]

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Woody Allen, Casey Affleck, Roman Polanski, Terrence Howard, Chris Brown. What all these men have in common is the fact that despite repeated rumours or allegations of assault, sexual harassment or sexual abuse, their work continues to be solicited and supported, encouraged and awarded. Although the likes of Harvey Weinstein, James Toback and Kevin Spacey […]

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In October 2017, The New York Times and The New Yorker published explosive articles detailing decades of alleged sexual harassment by former Miramax studio honcho Harvey Weinstein. Shortly after, women began to share their own personal stories of harassment, assault and abuse—congregated under the hashtag #MeToo, a term coined in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke, […]

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Hollywood veteran, style icon, and model of poise and grace Julianne Moore apparently also has a badass side to her. According to Alicia Vikander, star of the new Tomb Raider, it was Moore who showed her how to stand up for herself against crude comments and sexism on set. In her cover story for Vogue’s […]

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After shocking allegations against Bruce Weber and Mario Testino (the Weinstein-esque OGs of the fashion world) appeared in the New York Times last month, the industry has been trying to find ways to deal with the reckoning newly arrived on their doorsteps. Condé Nast severed ties with the photographers. The Council of Fashion Designers of […]

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Petite, elegant, charmingly freckled and slightly hesitant: These are my first fleeting impressions of Zoë Kravitz when we settle in for our interview at YSL’s pop-up Beauty Hotel in Paris. But she immediately breaks into a warm smile when I congratulate her on the success of Big Little Lies at the recent Golden Globe Awards. […]

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The ranks here at FASHION are not filled with men. Shocking, right? But there are one or two (there are actually, literally, two). Naturally, when a question about male behaviour arises it’s only fair that one of them stand in for the members of his gender and provide some insight. Aziz Ansari was our last […]

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The Golden Globes had an unofficial all-black dress code. The SAG awards had all-female presenters. And the Grammys are following suit with their own symbol of solidarity. In support of the Time’s Up movement against sexual assault and abuse in the workplace, artists and musicians plan to don a white rose on the red carpet […]

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