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Adya Saigal

'The sickening conspiracy that is the fashion industry' | Mail Online - 0 views

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fashion industry conspiracy

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  • British Fashion Council
  • ban very skinny models from being hired for London Fashion Week next month.
  • "We believe that regulation is neither desirable nor enforceable,"
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  • "recommend that only models aged 16 or over are used".
  • equivalent of giving the models crystal meth, ashtrays, syringes and unlimited quantities of champagne.
  • putting big business before the health of all young women in this country.
  • The World Health Organisation considers anyone with a BMI of 18.5 or below to be underweight.
  • The Council of Fashion Designers of America is also backing an education programme to teach young models about healthy eating and nutrition.
Adya Saigal

Australia Introduces Body-Image Standards for Fashion Industry: Glossed Over - 0 views

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australia fashion industry

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  • Recommendations include disclosing and avoiding the digital enhancement of images; banning ultra-thin female models or overly muscular male ones, in addition to models under the age of 16 to advertise adult clothes; employing a greater diversity of ethnicities and model body sizes; eschewing editorial and advertising content that promotes negative body image through rapid weight loss and cosmetic surgery, and, for retailers, carrying a wider variety of clothing sizes that better reflects the demands of the community.
  • “ultra-thin female models or overly muscular male ones”
  • it should be that there is beauty in all sizes of bodies.
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  • “Fashion is for, generally speaking, women who are in good physical shape, who choose to take care of themselves.”
  • So larger sizes don’t sell as well as smaller sizes…but she doesn’t stock as much larger-sized merchandise.
Simran Fabiani

Is the Fashion Industry Taking Action to Fight Eating Disorders? | Women's Rights | Cha... - 0 views

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health weight fashion

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  • he conference offered some hope that the fashion industry's disastrous obsession with the uber-thin and its cavalier disregard for the consequences of eating disorders may be coming to an end.
  • Anna Wintour admitted that models' attitudes towards food have long been hush-hush subjects for modeling agencies and designers, who prefer to shove the topic under the rug and continue subtly reminding the models to keep off the pounds.
  • 5'10 model who's a size 4 is told she's too fat,
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  • and said designers need to embrace "real women."
  • Some fashion shoots and shows are failures because she is not as skinny as the other models (at 5'10 and 125 lbs!).
  • epresent the norm in the life of many models.
Adya Saigal

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Image fashion industry girls

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  • North American girl will watch 5,000 hours of television, including 80,000 ads, before she starts kindergarten.
  • there is a long way to go, both in the quantity of media representations of woman and in their quality.
  • female characters make up only 32 per cent of the main characters on TV,
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  • However,almost 70 per cent of the editorial content in teen mags focuses on beauty and fashion, and only 12 per cent talks about school or careers.
  • difficult for girls to negotiate the transition to adulthood.
  • he numbers for girls drop steadily from 72 per cent in Grade Six students to only 55 per cent in Grade Ten.
  • because of the widening gap between girls' self-images and society's messages about what girls should be like.
  • girls are surrounded by images of female beauty that are unrealistic and unattainable.
Puja DeGamia

Eating Disorders: Body Image and Advertising - HealthyPlace - 0 views

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  • Advertisers often emphasize
  • he importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products
  • In recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27% of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body
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  • Researchers suggest advertising media may adversely impact women's body image,
  • ads made women fear being unattractive
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      this can lead to unhealthy behavior as girls strive for the ultra-thin body idealized by the media
  • he average woman sees 400 to 600 advertisements per day
  • and by the time she is 17 years old, she has received over 250,000 commercial messages through the media.
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      Shows the average amount of media exposure girls have targeted towards them
  • This constant exposure to female-oriented advertisements may influence girls to become self-conscious about their bodies and to obsess over their physical appearance as a measure of their worth
  • but many more implicitly emphasize the importance of beauty--particularly those that target women and girls.
  • Only 9% of commercials have a direct statement about beauty,
  • ty, and the bodies idealized in the media are frequently atypical of normal, healthy women. In fact,
    • Puja DeGamia
      Puja DeGamia on 15 Nov 10
       
      The media is not only being exposed to girls who are well into their teens but young girls aged 10 or younger.  - media impact has started spreading through age groups making little girls conscious about their weight as well.
  • today's fashion models weigh 23% less than the average female
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      a young woman between the ages of 18-34 has a 7% chance of being as slim as a catwalk model
  • Women frequently compare their bodies to those they see around them, and researchers have found that exposure to idealized body images lowers women's satisfaction with their own attractiveness.
  • girls reported in a
  • Body Image Survey that "very thin" models made them
  • feel insecure about themselves.
  • Dissatisfaction with their bodies causes many women and girls to strive for the thin ideal. The number one wish for girls ages 11 to 17 is to be thinner
  • Eighty percent (80%) of 10-year-old girls have dieted,
  • Advertisements emphasize thinness as a standard for female beau
  • One study found that 47% of the girls were influenced by magazine pictures to want to lose weight, but only 29% were actually overweight
  • Research has also found that stringent dieting to achieve an ideal figure can play a key role in triggering eating disorders.
  • Girls who were already dissatisfied with their bodies showed more dieting, anxiety, and bulimic symptoms after prolonged exposure to fashion and advertising images
  • in a teen girl magazine.
Puja DeGamia

BBC NEWS | Europe | France targets anorexia in media - 0 views

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France targets anorexia in media

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  • The bill targets pro-anorexia websites
  • The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness.
  • nd publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
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  • It will affect websites, fashion houses, magazines and advertisers.
  • those found to have encouraged severe weight loss could be fined up to 45,000 euros and face three years in prison.
  • "Encouraging young girls to lie to their doctors, advising them on foods that are easier to regurgitate and inciting them to beat themselves up each time they eat is not freedom of expression," Ms Bachelot told the assembly.
  • It is necessary because we know now that we have a risk to some part of the population, young girls, who are pressed by different types of lobbies and the risk is increasing."
  • he law could also affect the fashion industry and magazine editors who publish photographs of extremely thin models.
  • Page last updated at 21:43 GMT, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:43 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version
  • he BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says that with 40,000 anorexics in France, many parliamentarians feel the law cannot come soon enough.
Adya Saigal

The influence of fashion magazines on the body image satisfaction of college women: an ... - 0 views

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fashion magazines impact on body image

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    "Sherry L. Turner"
Ben Walters

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Manhunt murder teenager death Gaming tragedy Rockstar

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  • n the UK, the parents of a teenage murder victim have blamed the crime on the Rockstar game Manhunt.
  • The parents of Stefan Pakeerah, 14, said their son was lured to a park by a 17-year-old player of the game, who stabbed and beat their son to death with a knife and claw hammer.
  • "When one looks at what Warren did to Stephan and looks at the brutality and viciousness of the game, one can see links,"
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  • "Stefan's murder compares to how the game is set out, using weapons like hammers and knives. If games like this influence kids, they should be taken off the shelves."
  • The uproar has prompted the UK's biggest retailer to do exactly that.
  • Rockstar also defended itself by stating, "We reject any suggestion or association between the tragic events and the sale of Manhunt." However, the publisher/developer did offer its condolences to the victim's family.
  • As was to be expected, erroneous news reports in the wake of the murder have reignited the controversy that surrounded Manhunt when it was first released.
  • However, the madman/snuff-filmmaker who has kidnapped the convict does offer him rewards based on the grisliness of his killings, albeit in a very unglamorous fashion.
  • the BBC also talked to a child psychologist about whether or not there is a link between violent games and violent behavior in children. "There's been no longitudinal research, following adolescents over a long period, looking at how gaming violence might affect their behavior," said Professor Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University, who called for more research.
  • The BBC also pointed out that Manhunt has an 18 certificate--the equivalent of an "M" rating--and shouldn't be played by minors at all.
Simran Fabiani

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studies eating disorder

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  • They found that women were less happy with their bodies and more likely to restrict their eating after seeing pictures of competitive women
  • because people in the west tend to gain weight as they get older, they have come to equate thinness with youth and attractiveness, and competitive advantages in general.
  • Media that show excessively thin women therefore send our competitive instincts into overdrive
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  • why are they still drawn to fashion and gossip magazines
Simran Fabiani

Body Image, Media, and Eating Disorders -- Derenne and Beresin 30 (3): 257 -- Acad Psyc... - 0 views

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ideal body type image

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  • the standard of female beauty often has been unrealistic and difficult to attain.
  • Women are told that they can and should "have it all."
  • Though it is highly unlikely for a rail-thin woman to have natural DD-cup size breasts, toy manufacturers set this expectation by developing and marketing the Barbie doll, whose measurements are physiologically impossible
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  • women are faced with similarly unrealistic expectations every time they open a fashion magazine.
Adya Saigal

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body image models

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  • We live in a world of stick thin models and emaciated celebrities
  • The idea that thin is in is everywhere, and is hardly escapable from the advertising industry. And although the messages are damaging and often untrue, women everywhere are suffering the consequences of constant exposure to overly thin models and movie stars.
  • The average woman has a 7 percent chance that she will be as slim as a catwalk model and a 1 percent chance of being as thin as a supermodel,
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  • progressively worse in fashion advertising over the past several years.
  • These ads do not encourage women to embrace their own shapes, but rather to work hard to attain a low weight and toned body.
  • ads women see everyday that basically tell them they are not good enough.
Puja DeGamia

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Portrayal of Women in the Media

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  • A big part of media audience consists of teenagers, who are particularly vulnerable
  • This is because the mentality of young people is in the process of formation.
  • The impact of media on the morality of the younger generation can affect the future of our society negatively.
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  • Women are portrayed as perfect models. Although very often "Photoshop-edited",
  • hile stressing the importance of being slim. This leads in consequence to "promotion of anorexia", which is clearly undesirable.
  • Many girls idolize models and feel the need to mirror their thinness.
  • Models of a very low weight are setting bad examples to these girls
  • can be held responsible for the increasing number of girls with eating disorders
  • The fashion industry is not to blame for eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses and are not simply triggered by models and images of thin people.
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