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Weiye Loh

'Sexist trousers' spark Twitter row - Telegraph - 0 views

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Clothes Fashion Sexism Gender Stereotype

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  • Weiye Loh on 26 Mar 12
     
    Madhouse, a nationwide chain of discount men's clothing stores, was branded "shameful" and "outrageous" by hundreds of Twitter users yesterday, because of the label's washing instructions to 'Give it to your woman'.
    The beige pair of chinos in question were purchased in London at Madhouse's flagship Oxford Street store last month.
    The incident shows the power of Twitter to embarrass companies which make such gaffes. Last year, Topman was forced to apologise and remove a range of t-shirts from shelves after Twitter users said they were sexist.
    One t-shirt said: "Nice new girlfriend - what breed is she?"
    Vanessa Truskey, a publicity executive, commenting on the Madhouse trouser label, tweeted: "Lately I can't tell which decade I'm living in. What brand are those trousers?! I can only assume that's a joke."
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Karlie Kloss Vogue Italia Video Casts Doubt on Photoshop Accusations - News - FashionEt... - 0 views

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Body Body Image Photoshop Reality Fashion

shared by Weiye Loh on 18 Dec 11 - No Cached

  • Though the magazine has yet to offer an explanation as to why it pulled the picture, which saw the 19-year-old Kloss popping an awkwardly contorted and muscular hip, many have speculated that the decision was sparked by rumors that the image was Photoshopped to depict an unhealthily thin body.

    But as the video of the Steven Meisel shoot shows, Kloss may actually just be that flexible and lean (the latter of which may not appease those who complained that the spread glamorized an unrealistic body type).

  • Weiye Loh on 18 Dec 11
     
    Under suspicion for potentially airbrushing a photo of teen model Karlie Kloss, which was later taken down from its site, the magazine has let slip a behind-the-scenes video which may clear them of any wrongdoing
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Bikini models in H&M ads are four real heads all photoshopped onto the same CGI body - ... - 0 views

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Virtual Fashion Body

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  • Weiye Loh on 11 Dec 11
     
    The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and "completely virtual," the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then "dresses" it by drawing on its clothes, and digitally pastes on the heads of real women in post-production.
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Male Models at the Line of Beauty - NY Fashion Week - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Metrosexuality Fashion Gender Stereotype Gender Equality

shared by Weiye Loh on 18 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Weiye Loh on 18 Sep 11
     
    Women got most of the scarlet and yellow, the capes, the trims, the pizazz, as I could see by following the shows online. The general visual impression I took away from the men's shows was of gray, beige and brown, a lot of that brown being tanned skin. Even when a designer tried to jazz things up - Tommy Hilfiger went sort of nuts with nautical stripes at his show, held at the High Line on the first Friday of Fashion Week - the men still looked dressed-down-drab.
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Mr 'Thing': Pejic and his Prophet | marksimpson.com - 0 views

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Gender Androgyny Gender Stereotype Fashion

shared by Weiye Loh on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • t in the last couple of decades the male body has become ‘objectified’ in mainstream media as much as the female variety. The way that ‘beauty’ and ‘prettiness’ is no longer the sole preserve of women. The way that glossy magazines with men’s airbrushed tits on the cover have become the most popular kind — with men. (Which lends a special irony to the banning of a mag that featured a topless Pejic on the cover by Barnes & Noble — they knew Pejic is male, and don’t ban topless males, only females, but were worried the image ‘might confuse their customers’.)
  • the way that colours, clothes, accessories, products, practises and desires previously thought ‘feminine’ have been greedily taken up by men  – and often relabelled ‘manly’ in a way that only succeeds in unwittingly satirising the very concept of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’.
  • The way, in other words, that gender is undressing itself. Or at least, teasing us with an elbow-length glove or two and an unhooked bra-strap.
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  • “It’s not like, ‘Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman,’ ” he says. “I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.”

    “I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, ‘I’m a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.’ But, you know, to me, it doesn’t really matter. I don’t really have that sort of strong gender identity—I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it’s just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.”

    “”

    I identify as what I am.

    How very dare he! No wonder people rush to call him ‘it’ and ‘thing’….

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Some men swapping pants for dresses | The Japan Times Online - 0 views

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Clothes Gaze Gender Stereotype Gender Equality Fashion

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  • "Men wear a skirt just because they think they look cool," Yamamoto said. "Fashion-conscious males have tried on everything they can in men's style and the skirt is appealing as something new."
  • Prejudice against long-haired men and those with pierced ears disappeared after more men adopted those styles and people became used to them, he added.
  • "Since childhood, I have been wondering why men only have one option compared with women, who have both choices of wearing a skirt and a pair of trousers," Oshima said. "I believe skirts on men have been regarded as a taboo in a male-dominated society, as skirt wearers are treated the same way as women are treated and discriminated against.
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  • "Fashion is a way of expressing your individuality. So I want people to respect it," he said. So far, passersby are generally indifferent to him dressed in a skirt, he added.
  • Weiye Loh on 26 Jun 11
     
    If more men wear skirts, public understanding will grow, and more people will realize it is foolish to make value judgments about the fashion styles of others,"
Weiye Loh

Guest Post: Possibilities and Limitations of Subversion through Fa(t)shion » ... - 0 views

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Fashion Fat Politics

shared by Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • When Jessie Dress of Austin, Texas started the project Fa(t)shion February for Femmes and Friends, she was responding to what she perceived as a gap in the online community celebrating “fatshion,” or fashion for fat-identified people.   She explains, “I don’t feel like the fatshion blogs I see really represent the kind of radical queer fashion that I’m into and that feels like my community.”   Jessie committed to posting “outfits of the day” (OOTD) every day in February.  Her intention was to celebrate and draw attention to three kinds of politicized fashion projects – first, fatshion;  second, the fashion of femme-identified queers; and finally, the fashion of allies of both fat and femme-identified people.
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Why the fashion industry can't seem to design for women with breasts | Hadley Freeman |... - 0 views

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  • Why are so many fashion trends ­impossible to wear if you have breasts larger than a B-cup size?

    Meredith, London

    Ah, Meredith, you have cannily stumbled on that interesting split-screen effect of the fashion world, the dichotomy ­between misogyny and empowerment. Is fashion a cruel anti-female industry whose sole goal is to make women feel bad about themselves and force them to wear crippling, uncomfortable apparel? Or is it empowering, ­allowing women to wear clothes that appeal primarily to themselves as ­opposed to men?

  • Breasts and fashion go together like snow and train schedules: the latter just doesn't take the existence of the former into account, despite the high likelihood that it will encounter it at some point. Fashion haters will say that designers' disinterest-verging-on-­distaste for breasts proves that they are misogynistic pigs, interested only in designing for anorexic 19-year-olds.
  • But there is another possible ­interpretation. For all the accusations of narcissism with which fashion gets pelted, the industry has remarkably ­little interest in making people look ­attractive. It's interested in making people look different. So when people complain that those £4,000 Balmain jackets don't suit anybody, they're just missing the point. Those jackets aren't about making anyone look good, they're about making you look like you're wearing Balmain. You see? Different.
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  • Is there not something marvellous about an industry that has so little interest in the one part of a woman's anatomy that the rest of the world is obsessed with? One of the truly commendable things about fashion is how little interest it has in appealing to straight men, or making women look attractive to them. This, I've always maintained, is part of the reason why fashion gets such a bad rap; because it is basically a private-members' club that excludes men. "Fashion's just about appealing to gay men," one of my (straight) male friends sneered recently, as though that was a criticism. And thank God for it. As this column's life icon, Joan Rivers, said once when she saw a celebrity wearing a terrible dress allegedly chosen by her boyfriend, "Well, at least you can say that her ­boyfriend is straight." When it comes to aesthetics, straight men have no sense at all. After all, they're the ones so obsessed with mammary glands.
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      Weiye Loh on 01 Feb 10
       
      Appealing to men both straight or gay are STILL appealing to men what. Still patriarchal in nature albeit slightly more subversive. Shouldn't it be about appealing to oneself? 
  • Weiye Loh on 01 Feb 10
     
    Why the fashion industry can't seem to design for women with breasts
    Actually, there is an upside to its indifference to the female body
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