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10 Delightfully Surly Books for the Relentless Pessimist
You know that feeling you get when it happens to be raining outside, and everything just feels dark and grey and youR…
Everything You Need to Know About Becoming a Model, an Interview with Former Model Ashley Mears
Studies show that 61% of girls aged 15-18 want to become either models or actresses when they grow up. We get emails fro…
Fashion Parody: What Would A “Real” Woman Look Like in a Glossy Fashion Ad Campaign?
French journalist and fashion stylist Natalie Croquet wanted to know what it feels like to be the face of a million doll…
In an Automated World, Your Creativity Will Become the Most Valuable Skill
For as long as we can remember, society has touted the engineer, and patronized the dancer, but a seismic shift is happe…
Throwback 70s Street Style, A Look At Fashion’s Most Defining Decade
If there’s one thing that fashion history can teach us is that your grandparents probably had more style than you …
Why Being Beautiful is Overrated
You know them (perhaps you’re even one of them), those girls that turn every head when walking down the street. Th…
Dangerous Women: The Baddest Bitches of Film Noir
The world remembers Old Hollywood in flashes of glitz and glamour: cigarettes smoked in white-gloved hands, soft curls, …
Creative Madness: The 5 Types of Crazy Artists You Will Meet in Your Life
When you look at some of our species’ greatest creative achievements, you will often find that a little madness is…
What’s Your Type? New Study Reveals 12 Fundamental Types of People
Not to put you in a box or anything, but according to a recent study helmed by Exponential (a digital advertising networ…
Pinterest Poison: Insanely Popular Quotes We Need To Stop Repinning Stat
When you hang around Pinterest long enough, you start to realize that it is like a microcosm of the things we most value…
Girls on Film: 3 Must See Films and Shows Written and Directed by Women (Part One)
You can always tell when something has been written by a woman. The female characters have a certain authenticity that i…
Moscow’s Fashion Revolution
Amidst anti-war protesters, LGBT activists and Pussy Riot, Moscow’s youth is getting louder and louder about the things …
To Bey or Not to Bey That is the Question: Politicizing Beyonce
Multimillionaire and megastar Beyoncé has become the subject of academic study. If you ever doubted her influence, now m…
Decoding the Normcore Phenomenon
Though the term Normcore is only about two months old and was something of a joke to begin with, it has swept through th…
Girl Power 18 Years After The Spice Girls Invasion
The Spice Girls unleashed their first single “Wannabe” exactly eighteen years ago in June 1996. They would g…
The Psychology of Fashion
People love to trivialize the fashion industry, and we don’t blame them. But new research into the psychology behi…
What Will Happen to Fashion When Every Conceivable Trend is Trending at Once?
Fashion is shifting somewhere we’ve never been before. Every day we’re getting closer to that inevitable mom…
Fashion, Compassion or Exploitation? This Fashion Editorial Features Heroin Addicted Prostitutes
Photographers Loral Amir and Gigi Ben Artzi’s disturbing project “Downtown Divas” features heroin-addi…