Because body image is sooo hot right now! But let’s get down to nitty gritty….We are frequently asked to talk, lecture or exhibit, but just can’t meet the demand. It seems everyone wants to chat about personal identity these days.
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Because body image is sooo hot right now! But let’s get down to nitty gritty….We are frequently asked to talk, lecture or exhibit, but just can’t meet the demand. It seems everyone wants to chat about personal identity these days.

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TOMORROW’S future creatives bring an understanding of the power of image and enlightened practice to their work TODAY in our national competition Diversity NOW! In association with i-D Magazine, sponsored by Succeed Foundation and supported by Arts Thread and Graduate Fashion Week.

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As far as we know this is the first MBE for Diversity. The All Walks team celebrates wider recognition for Body Image issues

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The fashion industry can send out a more conscious message, develop a more emotionally considerate practice in pursuit of a more lucrative business proposition. It all begins in education.

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Arriving at the House of Commons in force, Wednesday 1st February 2012 saw a brigade of well-informed and well-heeled women gather to view award-winning documentary Miss Representation and to debate the under-representation of women in positions of power.

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Today, more than ever before, we face an almost constant bombardment of images, messages and ideals, from the websites we visit, the adverts we see, products we buy and magazines that we read. The representation of the human form delivered to us by these sources has a huge effect on the way we percieve our [...]

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The Body Confidence Awards launched in April 2012 were a landmark event for the industry. All Walks helped to shape and deliver these.

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THE WINNERS ARE… The award winners of the first ever Body Confidence Awards presented in association with bareMinerals were announced yesterday evening at the Houses of Parliament. The event was an electric celebration of the winners’ inspirational and deserving efforts to promote body confidence, diversity and the acceptance of broader beauty ideals. All who were [...]

charlotte.gush / 'Fotoshop by Adobe' by Jesse Rosten, 19 April 2012, All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, all walks beyond the catwalk, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk Fashion Award, AnyBody, ASOS Curve, b-eat, bareMinerals, Beautiful Magazine, Body Confidence Awards, Body Gossip, Body Gossip Gossip School education programme. Body Image in the Primary School by Nicky Hutchinson and Chris Calland, Boots No7 ‘Ta Dah’ range, Caitlin Moran for How to be a Woman Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth, Campaign for Body Confidence, Central YMCA, Centre for Appearance Research, Cerrie Burnell CBeebies, Changing Faces, curves, Dance UK Healthier Dancer Programme, Debenhams, diversity, Ellie Simmonds, giles deacon, Girlguiding UK Peer education initiative, Gok Wan, Guardian Weekend Magazine Fashion for all ages, House of Commons, Illamasqua Look Good Feel Better, Jo Swinson MP, Katie Piper, La Redoute, MAC, Mark Fast, Miss Representation, Mumsnet, Mumsnet Award for promoting body confidence in children, Pink Stinks, Stephanie Heart Enterprises, Virgin Active Ooomph campaign, Vivien of Holloway, Vivienne Westwood, ‘100 Days of Summer’ by New Look, ‘Growing up’ by Dove, ‘The Woman’ by Breast Cancer Care /
We are delighted to announce, alongside the other members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, that the inaugural Body Confidence Awards will take place this Thursday, 19th April 2012, at the House of Commons. The awards will recognise and celebrate the efforts and achievements of those who promote body confidence within various [...]

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Embargo: 00:00, 17 April 2012 Contact: Corrine Leon 020 7219 8088 In a looks-obsessed society where 47% of girls think the pressure to look attractive is the most negative part of being female[i] and 38% of men would sacrifice at least a year of their life in exchange for a perfect body.[iii] It is time [...]
