Fashion blog
Marc Jacobs collection for summer and spring 2012. Vintage, chic and beautiful!
New great collection of Anna Sui for spring and summer 2012. Mercedes Benz Fashion Week video show.
In modern consumer cultures it is remarkable how much time, energy and money are invested, particularly by women, in the pursuit of beauty. Billions of dollars are spent world-wide on the beauty industry. According to Julie Kofman, beauty director for Seventeen, American teenagers alone spent a staggering $9.7 billion on beauty products in 2000. The growing acceptance of cosmetic surgery and beauty products for men are also indicative of the preoccupation with appearance and looking good in modern cultures. There are many different psychological, social, and economic aspects to this preoccupation with beauty and there is no single cause. Some women such as Naomi Wolf in her book The Beauty Myth attribute much of the preoccupation to males and the way in which the male domination of women is socially institutionalised. Read the rest of this entry »

Model posing with creatively tied with cloth, reminiscent of a flower bud from other planets. Read the rest of this entry »