Topic: fashion week

NY Fashion Week Worsts: Furries, Fur And Straight Jackets

NY Fashion Week Worsts: Furries, Fur And Straight Jackets

Today marks the beginning of London Fashion Week and already there have been some … questionable designs. New York Fashion Week just wrapped up yesterday (it’s always fashion week somewhere!), and while there was a lot to love in this year’s collections, there were definitely a few things that fail the ‘fashion shouldn’t ridicule women‘ test. From the offensive to the merely absurd, a few fashion week 2013 worsts. More »

The #NYFW Diet Spreads Disordered Eating On Twitter — Surprises No One

The #NYFW Diet Spreads Disordered Eating On Twitter -- Surprises No One

OK everyone. I have some shocking, shocking news for you. The fashion industry is obsessed with thinness! Call in the eating disorder police, because THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION. CNN is reporting from the dangerous, rice-cake laden sidelines of New York Fashion Week and they want you to know that the twice-yearly event is “the culmination of months of planning, organizing, schmoozing … and dieting?” Yes, dieting. Disordered eating in fashion isn’t news, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem, one that’s spread from models to others in the fashion industry and now, to Twitter. More »

Body Image In the Media: Diet Pepsi Causes Debate With Skinny Can and Sofia Vergara

Body Image In the Media: Diet Pepsi Causes Debate With Skinny Can and Sofia Vergara

Pepsi’s new Skinny Can, launched during New York Fashion Week as an appeal to the fashionable crowd, isn’t showing up in designer handbags as much as in debates over body image. They’ve brought in the big guns and hired Colombian actress Sofia Vergara to get in on the debate, but to little effect. If you’re not up on all things PepsiCo (or Sofia Vergara), here’s a play-by-play of their recent attempt to drum up consumer enthusiasm: More »