and help to promote a healthy body image.” Girls under the age of 16 have already been banned from catwalks in London and the US, but this is the first time a magazine has issued its own standards. In 2009, Alexandra Shulman spoke out against the practice of designers providing tiny sample sizes. She sent a strongly worded letter to fashion houses saying she had been forced to hire girls “with jut…
s who don’t touch the make-up pot. You should keep looking nice, it makes you feel so much better.” Daphne Selfe looks beautiful, but so very different to today’s models: she has a tiny waist (“It was 24in, today it’s 27in! At least I haven’t got fat”), but rather chunky thighs, and wide shoulders. “I would never have made it starting out today,” Daphne Selfe admits. “I was too short, just 5ft 7in…
Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI). The new law is part of an effort to promote health for women of all sizes, and to stop glorifying the ultra-thin. “Beautiful is not underweight,” says Rachel Adato, one of the creators of the bill. In recent years, much attention has been paid to how wo…
Songstress Azealia Banks tweeted that she is ”definitely boycotting” Dolce & Gabbana for the “corny, racist” imagery in their spring 2013 collection. The Italian fashion house raised some eyebrows when they sent an army of all-white models down the runway donning controversial earrings featuring dark-skinned women wearing burlap dresses and plantation-era cornucopias. “Whoever designed that r…
Russian model Kira Dikhtyar has revealed the horrifying extremes employed by her peers in the fashion industry ahead of catwalk appearances. As another round of New York Fashion Week gets underway, Kira Dikhtyar admits getting down to sample size-zero is no mean feat, and some girls are prepared to do anything to lose pounds quickly. According to Kira Dikhtyar, 22, packs of cigarettes, diet pills…
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…e not faked and he was genuinely there that evening enjoying himself. “It was a bit of a marketing coup for us too.” DSK has been embroiled in a catalogue of sex scandals since being arrested in May 2011 for trying to rape Guinea immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, 29, when she came to clean his suite in New York’s Sofitel hotel. He was charged with attempted rape, sexual abuse, a criminal sexual act,…
…d they were disappointed not to be walking away with any purchases. “I’ve been waiting here since yesterday afternoon, then this morning they say they won’t sell,” a man in his 20s told Reuters TV. “They broke customers’ hearts.” By about 10:00 local time in Beijing, the crowds had cleared the area in front of Apple store….
ng everything from the change in a woman’s freedom after she has children, to how the changes in the Middle East have affected women in the region. The editor of SLiNK, Rivkie Baum (a size 16-18 26-year-old), said the 3D technique was employed “to create a sensational selection of images with a military theme that truly come to life”. She added: “The issue is The Freedom Issue an…
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San Francisco Fashion Week 2011: when beauty meets technology. Australian department store Myer hosted Big is Beautiful fashion launch during Sydney’s Fashion Festival 2011 on Tuesday, hiring plus-size girls to model outfits by various labels. Sydney Fashion Festival, known as Mercedes-Benz Sydney Fashion Festival (MBFF Sydney), is Sydney’s premier fashion and lifestyle event and i…
Lindsay Lohan was snapped sampling various Elizabeth Taylor-inspired costumes for her role in the biopic Liz And Dick – her first leading lady part since the rather abysmal 2009 flop Labor Pains. However, Lindsay Lohan, 25, didn’t bother to brush her hair for the wardrobe fitting, instead just scraping her messy locks back into scruffy bun. A source told TMZ that Lindsay Lohan has bee…
…ch are branded as Slate or Ativ Smart PCs depending on where they are sold, function as hybrids – working either as standalone tablets or as laptops when added to keyboard docks. They update its 2011 Slate models and follow a similar format to Asus’s Transformer hybrids. In addition Samsung showed off the Ativ S – its first smartphone to run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 P…
Designers, models, singers, actors and a sprinkling of gold medal winning Olympians lit up London’s Royal Opera House for GQ magazine’s annual awards. GQ (originally Gentlemen’s Quarterly) is an American monthly men’s magazine focusing on fashion, style, and culture for men, through articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books. GQ M…
…size zero model in its latest campaign. The tissue allegations appeared in the memoirs of veteran fashion journalist Kirstie Clements, who was sacked from her role as editor of Australian Vogue in May 2012. Kirstie Clements claimed she once spent three days on a shoot with a model but didn’t see her eat a single meal. By the end of the trip, said Kirstie Clements, the model was so exhausted…
Japan where futures contracts were written for rice traders. A simple futures contract says that I will agree to buy rice from you in one year’s time, at a price that we agree right now. By the 20th Century the Chicago Board of Trade was providing a marketplace for traders to deal not only in futures but in options contracts. An example of an option is a contract where we agree that I can b…
Toyota is voluntarily recalling more than 7 million vehicles worldwide, including some Yaris, Corolla and Camry models, over faulty window switches. Toyota said these would include 1.39 million vehicles across Europe, 2.47 million in the US and 1.4 million in China. It is the biggest single one since Ford recalled 8 million vehicles in 1996. Toyota said there had been no reports of accidents, inj…
Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago. The study, published in Nature, suggests Antarctic winter temperatures exceeded 10C, while summers may have reached 25C. Better knowled…
…alizing glimpse of iPhone 4S on Vodafone Germany's website Nothing is certain, but it looks increasingly likely that iPhone 4S might launch today – and iPhone 5 might not appear until 2012. Analysts predict Apple will “shatter” its one-day sales record of 1.7 million due to “pent up demand”, and it will sell more than 100 million next year. Opinion is split over whether there will…
…a model’s features, such as their shape or their skin tone. Each altered photograph was scored between one and five, with five representing a heavy retouching. Volunteers were each asked to score from 1 to 5 how similar each pair of pictures was. Prof. Hany Farid and his student, Eric Kee, found a close correlation between their computerized assessment and the human opinion, suggesting the techniq…
The mystery surrounding the source of cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles known in the Universe, has grown deeper. The cosmic rays can show up with energies a million times higher than the biggest particle accelerators on Earth can produce. Astrophysicists believed that only two sources could make them: supermassive black holes in active galaxies, or so-called gamma ray bursts. A study in…
…n Thicke’s music video for Blurred Lines has been branded too hot for YouTube and has been banned from the website Robin Thicke’s unrated clip was released last week and garnered more than 1 million views in days. The original video was released a week before and has 1.3 million views. The R&B crooner said in an interview last week that he had sought the approval of his wife, actre…
In a new video, Victoria’s Secret Angels Candice Swanepoel, Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes, Alessandra Ambrosio, Lily Aldridge, Lindsay Ellingson and Erin Heatherton are shown modelling a selection of festive underwear while attempting to sing a rendition of Deck The Halls. But the minute-plus film is littered with retakes as the seven girls stumble over the lyrics, and in one of the final shots Dou…
Five years ago, Sophia Loren became the oldest model to ever poise for the legendary Pirelli calendar at the grand old age of 72 and now she still managed to put the younger models in the shade at the launch of the 2013 iconic calendar. Sophia Loren, now 78-years-old, looked stunning in a glittering pearly-white gown in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday evening. With her brown hair worn over her shoulder…
nd another short concave curve as it descends into the ankle. The outside of the perfect leg has a much longer, smoother convex curve. The study looked at depictions of beautiful legs from as early as 2,000 BC in Greece and found “the shape and distribution of the curves of such ancient legs are exactly the same as those of men and women models today!”. …
Dick Trickle 911 call before suicideThe 911 call legendary NASCAR Dick Trickle made to a hapless operator before he ended his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound was released today. In the recording,…
Dick Trickle suicide: Chuck Trickle says his brother suffered chronic and debilitating pain in his chest Dick Trickle’s brother, Chuck, has said the legendary NASCAR driver suffered chronic and debilitating pain in his chest before his suicide. Richard “Dick” Trickle, 71,…
Dick Trickle commits suicide at 71 calling police before shooting himself to instruct where to find his bodyRetired race car driver Richard “Dick” Trickle died on Thursday at the age of 71 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say. The body of the NASCAR legend was found…
Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods go fishing with his yacht in FloridaLindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods only made their first public appearance together as an official couple at the Met Ball a couple of weeks ago. However, it seems Tiger Woods and…
David Beckham to retire from football at the end of seasonDavid Beckham has announced he will retire from football at the end of this season at the age of 38 after an illustrious 20-year career. The former England captain made 115…
S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila: Indian cricketers arrested over spot-fixing in IPLThree Indian cricketers have been arrested over allegations of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the country's cricket board says. The players belong to the…
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