Axelle Andersen has a family connection that many sixteen year-old girls dream of having: her aunt Venetia is the editor of a well-known fashion magazine based in Paris. But despite her mother’s constant, almost desperate encouragement to make use of her long legs, Axelle does not want to become a fashion model. Having a knack… Read More Book Review: Model Undercover: Paris by Carina Axelsson
Name: Hayden Pigott Blog: Haute Table Her favorite post: http://hautetable.blogspot.com/2014/11/dreaming-of-paris.html Hayden is not newbie on the blogging scene, having been contributing for almost exactly three years to the blogosphere. She described her blog Haute Table as “a random assortment of [her] life. [She has] a passion for fashion, college football, travel, and food all of… Read More Blog Review: ‘Haute Table’ by Hayden Pigott
Statement T-shirts are a wonderful way of sharing with the world how we feel about certain things, in an in-your-face yet out-of-your-space kind of way. It used to be considered tacky doing so, but never fear: the statement T-shirt has made a huge come-back in all age groups, all the more that they are the… Read More Fashion Review: Novel-T’s Literary Shirts
A little over a week ago, Dove posted a follow-up video as part of its ongoing Campaign for Real Beauty. The most important conversation this new video fosters is not around individual physical beauty; rather, it seems that Dove has put its finger on the fact that understanding real beauty’s full scope isn’t just a… Read More The Dialogue on Beauty Continues: Another Dove Video
There are probably not many people out there who are going to deny that there is something wrong with North America’s conception of beauty. One constant complaint is the narrow-minded definition of beauty that has been created and its implications, from eating disorders to plastic surgery, self-mutilation to the preferential treatment that those considered beautiful… Read More Book Review: ‘Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling’ by Amanda M. Czerniawski
A recent article on CBC News reports that France is “likely to ban super-skinny models” from their runways because of a link between “high fashion”, “body image”, and “eating disorders on French catwalks”. The conversation about the real meaning of beauty has reached quite a level of prominence; that a country well-known as a leader… Read More The Pendulum Swings Yet Again: Banning Super Skinny Models
Straight off the heels of her week in Paris, Model Undercover: Stolen With Style follows sixteen year-old Axelle to the Big Apple where she has been asked to find a big black diamond that was stolen from a photo shoot. Although she has the connections—her aunt Venetia is the editor of a well-known fashion magazine… Read More Book Review: ‘Model Undercover: Stolen With Style’ by Carina Axelsson
Celebrity culture pervades our day to day lives. We have an unhealthy relationships with the people that influence our lives, placing them on pedestal and deifying them. When it comes to someone like Coco Chanel, whose influence, even a little over 40 years after her passing, infuses to many lives around the world, that deification,… Read More Book Review: ‘Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History’, by Rhonda K. Garelick
As The Devil Wears Prada is one of my favourite movies of 2006 (especially given Meryl Streep’s amazing performance), and Vogue’s September issue is one of the few fashion magazines I regularly buy, I was excited to hear about a movie called The September Issue, which chronicles the making of the 2007 edition of that… Read More DVD Review: The September Issue
I love fashion. I have a rather simple fashion taste, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy putting on nice outfits on, neither does it mean that I don’t enjoy seeing a fabulous outfit on the street. However, I always question what is the relationship between fashion and one’s spiritual progress in life. There… Read More Thoughts on a Baha’i Sense of Fashion