The Most Inclusive Fashion Week Show Was the One You Didn't Hear About. Sure, we may talk a lot about diversity and inclusivity in fashion, but what does that really look like? Are we talking about racial diversity? Size inclusivity? Ability? What does an inclusive runway really look like? Well, here's an idea: On Feb. 19 — the day after New York Fashion Week formally came to a close — in a nondescript room on the third floor of a nondescript building in New York City, models of a variety of races and sizes and ages and genders and abilities walked down a runway for the brand SmartGlamour.
Read more: Only 0.1% of Models at New York Fashion Week Were Plus-Size, Finds New Report One model with a prosthetic leg wore a pink, red and gray floral dress. "When I launched SmartGlamour, I launched it to be all-inclusive, to be affordable, to be ethically made and for everybody," its founder and designer, Mallorie Dunn, 28, told Mic before the show. To counteract that narrative, Dunn decided to start SmartGlamour, which is size-inclusive, stocking sizes XXS to 6X. We don’t want your summer music festival fashion tips | À l'allure garçonnière.
I like music. I enjoy live music. I go to see concerts. I’ve been to more than a few music festivals over the years. I’m also pretty stylish and interested in fashion. So why is it that every music festival related fashion story makes my blood boil? Why are they all so soaked in vacuous sexist assumptions? I’m thinking about this now because it’s the summer and it is everywhere.
Top 7 Osheaga Fashion Statements (all geared towards straight-sized women)6 styles to wear at Osheaga (featuring bindis for white girls! Link after link, are we really encouraging women and girls to think more about what they look like than about the experience of enjoying music performed live? This isn’t even about telling women how to dress – I really could go on and on about how impractical many of the suggested “looks” are, but that’s not what this is about. If you’re hell-bent on taking photographs of fans at music festivals, include dudes. Now that I’m older I care less. Photograph by Maryon Desjardins. PBS Explores Gender, Fashion and ‘the Right to be Handsome’ Sexisme hipster ou le privilège de la distance | feminada. L’autre jour, ma mère me demandait ce qu’est un hipster. Les définitions peuvent certainement varier, mais je lui ai répondu à peu près ceci : un hipster est une personne qui s’approprie certains éléments (souvent rétros) associés à la culture prolétaire, à des fins esthétiques, mais toujours avec une pointe d’ironie.
Certaines personnes mal avisées pourraient croire que les femmes hipsters n’ont pas de goût avec leurs leggings taille haute, leurs tricots des années 80 et leurs grosses lunettes. Leurs contreparties masculines pourraient passer pour des pas de classe avec leur pilosité faciale abondante, leurs chemises à carreaux et… leurs grosses lunettes. Qu’on les trouve mal habillés, les hipsters s’en tapent, car ils ne cherchent pas l’assentiment du commun des mortels : entre eux, ils savent qu’il y a un second degré et ça leur suffit amplement. Les hipsters ont horreur du mainstream, de là leur fascination pour la scène musicale indépendante et celle du café «troisième vague». A History Of Attacks On Women's Clothing, As Told Through Newspaper Headlines. Tavi Gevinson Teaches Jimmy Fallon How to Bitchface.
Vintage Ad for “Just Like Mommie’s” Bra Set. By Gwen Sharp, PhD, Apr 15, 2011, at 05:25 pm Alli sent us a link to a vintage ad posted at BoingBoing that reminds us, in the wake of the Abercrombie Kids push-up bikini top fiasco, that encouraging young girls to act like adult women, including wearing lingerie, isn’t a brand-new phenomenon. The ad, from 1959, offers bra and panties set for girls sizes 2-12: Women and Fashion: What Your Shoes Really Say About You. This week in faux-feminist consumerism…