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Ads & the City: A Walk Through Milan, Italy

Ideal bodies in Milan’s street ads: a far cry from the beauty ideals of yesteryear.

Victoria’s Secret: Serial Photoshop Offender

THE ILLUSIONISTS is a feature-length documentary about the marketing of unattainable beauty around the world. To find out more about …

Argentina Needs Your Help – by Sharon Haywood

From Endangered Species London:

A powerful presentation by activist Sharon Haywood about the body myth in Argentina.

Reshaping the Human Body in Videos

My father just sent me this video about a software technology called MovieReshape that allows editors to change the body shape/proportions of actors on video.

Height, weight, breast and waist girth, leg length and muscularity are some of the elements that can now be easily manipulated.

My Pinkification-Induced Anxiety Attack

This past Saturday I had an anxiety attack: sudden sense of panic, difficulty breathing, head spinning, stone cold hands… the …

Beyond the Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf writes in the final pages of her book The Beauty Myth: The terrible truth is that though the …

Carrie Bradshaw, This Is For You

One of the main reasons why I started working on “The Illusionists” is my disdain for double standards  – the …

The Beauty Myth: Middle Eastern Edition

From Arabianbusiness.com : “Middle East beauty industry to hit $2.9bn in 2009″ Excerpt: According to official statistics, the sales of …

The Beauty Myth, Male Edition (Welcome Boys!)

WebWire: “Clinique Skin Supplies for Men launches new website Cliniqueformen.co.uk“ My favorite product: NEW Age Defense Hydrator SPF 15 (see …