Recently, I chaired the ‘Notions of Beauty,’ debate at the London College of Fashion which was food for thought.
Of course the fashion industry takes a very superficial approach to beauty and this impacts on our perceptions of ourselves and others.
This would be alright if there was a balance, but unfortunately the fashion and beauty industries [...]

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So what’s a girl to wear for her appearance as Ambassador of Britain’s first Centre for Sustainable Fashion?
This is me at 7am before I leap on the tube for a breakfast presentation. It’s another of my uniform categories ‘Fashion Journalist at work.’ If you who have my e-book, which is hot on body type fashion [...]

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It’s a harmless enough occupation being a fashion journalist, although personally I prefer to call myself a fashion writer because I take a longer more considered view of how the fashion industry impacts on our lives.
In fact if truth be told I’m a critic and I’m watching everyone from behind my designer spectacles. Make one [...]

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I am often asked to comment on models, their unhealthy shapes and their influence on us. I have been a patron of the Eating Disorders Association now known as BEAT for well over 12 years and for even longer I have been critical of my industry’s penchant for willowy types as one standardized ideal of [...]

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There are plenty of fashion words I can’t bear. No really. Fashion speak in general is likely to get me more irritated than a fly up against a glass pane on a hot sunny day. Jane and I spend most of our time working with women just like you and from your letters we know [...]

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