In an industry known for beautiful people, idolised style setters and slavish interns, ‘human’ is not a word often heard in fashion. But Fabian Hirose has never been blinded by the glamour
Finding Consciousness in an Industry of Dreams
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Beyond Skin
“There is a suggestion that there is a certain kind of look that is more desirable,” say’s Thandie Newton talking about her latest venture with longtime All Walks supporter and internationally renowned make-up artist, Kay Montano, “I find that frustrating.”
What Should We Tell Our Daughters?
When Susie Orbach’s book Bodies was published – All Walks had not yet formed, that doesn’t stop us from recommending it to the fashion students we reach in our lectures. Here’s another corker on our list. What Should We Tell Our Daughters? The Pleasures and the Pressures of Growing up Female by Melissa Benn [...]
Shape Your Culture: Teens get Creative for Body Confidence
There’s nothing quite like passing through security to give an event a sense of importance. Body detectors and scanners can’t fail to add gravitas. But aside from general bits and bobs, all I had in my bag for the Bodies in Education event at Portcullis House were a notebook and pen. They was put to [...]
Twitter debate sparks Body Gossip in the Office
The need to be confident in the workplace goes without saying, but how much can it be said that our appearance contributes to our sense of confidence, even to our ability to focus on getting the job done? Total Jobs recently held an online Twitter Party – the ultimate twenty-first century get together – hosted [...]
The Fashionable Body: Illustrated
Do fashion illustrators have the power to influence with exciting, empowering designs for the body or are they stuck in a rut – churning out toxic, body-dysmorphic images or sexual cartoons? This week’s academic blog, written by Carol Ryder, Senior Lecturer in Fashion Design at Liverpool John Moores University ponders just that. How can we equate the emaciated, [...]
Body Gossip and Banishing Body Shame
Of all the organisations we regularly meet with, Body Gossip run by actor Ruth Rogers and body image commentator Natasha Devon are the most talkative. In fact they never stop spouting off….Good Women!
From an intern’s perspective. “Every Body is Beautiful”
Sifting through student feedback from All Walks Lectures over the holiday, Fi Anderson, a recent All Walks intern from London College of Fashion, shares her thoughts.
Better Lives
At the Better Lives seminar last night hosted by Psychologist Carolyn Mair at London College of Fashion, I gave a talk – the usual stuff…All Walks and our belief that people working in Fashion could begin to understand the psychological impact our industry capable of making. I argued that YES Design, Product and Fashion messaging [...]
SHOWstudio and All Walks
How is disability seen by our industry? Alexander McQueen offered commentary on this, so have students who entered our Diversity NOW! competition. What are your thoughts?
The Enlightened Approach – The Gold Winner at Graduate Fashion Week
At last Week’s Graduate Fashion Awards, two out of the three top prizes went to students under the tutelage of our Diversity Network Director Mal Burkinshaw. Emotionally considerate design and visionary creativity RULES.
Where are all the Size 10s?
There are several broad divides in the world of modeling. There is editorial and there is commercial. There is mainboard and special bookings. And then there is ‘fashion’ versus ‘plus size’: ‘fashion’ encompasses size 6 to 8, ‘plus’ size 12 and above; arbitrary categories.