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Fashion, Politics & Diversity: NYFW Lily Fashion Event
With Lily General Manager, Chen Chuan & CCO, Sun Mingyang In my many years writing about beauty, I’ve commented on the bridging opportunities of fashion. I believe that because fashion and beauty...
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Damned if You Do, Damned If You Don’t: In 2019, Let’s Be Done With With The...
Elizabeth I‘s make-up killed her. At least according to some historians. In her attempt to look youthful and blemish-free, the queen used a toxic white powder, Ceruse, containing high doses of...
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Can Brick & Mortar Fashion Retail Resurrect Itself? A #Video Conversation...
Hello readers! Apologies for being so out of touch. I’ve been caught up experiencing some great beauty and fashion experiences that I will THEN write about. And… I’m writing a book! Yep. In fact, I...
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Chinese Fashion: Not A Case Of Cultural Appropriation But Cultural...
Yue-Sai Kan, Miss China Universe 2011-2016 and me at the Plaza I’m sure you’ve all read about the bruhaha about a Utah girl’s Chinese prom dress. Keziah Daum wore a classic Cheongasm dress and got...
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Fashion & Sex: How #Metoo is Changing It, But Is It For The Better?
A few weeks back you may have a seen a short video between my friends, Rachael McCrary and Marci Weisler about our reactions to the #metoo movement. One of the areas discussed was our attire. How...
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A Video Conversation: Exploring How #metoo Can Be A New Way Forward, Not a...
A few weeks back I shared my reactions to the #metoo movement. And while I wrote about how wholeheartedly supportive of it I am, I also cautioned us not to inhibit our femininity or masculinity. I...
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Embrace, Express and Own: Empowering us to be Feminine, Sexy & Powerful
Golden Globes 2018 fashion Lots of buzz this week regarding the Golden Globes, especially all the references to women’s empowerment in the industry. As you all know, many of the female attendees...
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Empowerment, Political Affairs & Youth Education: Fashion Week’s Other Side
If any of you follow fashion, you know every major city has celebrated it’s Fashion Week over the past month or so. And I can’t help but reflect on it all. Sure, Fashion Week is full of crazy...
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Not What You’d Expect: What Blind People Can Teach Us About Physical Beauty
Courtesy of WatchCut Video What does beauty mean if you’re blind? After all, you can’t see, right? Does it actually matter to a person who can’t see? The answer? Yes! I came across a fascinating...
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Beautiful-Ugly Monuments: Should They Stay or Should They Go? How The Beauty...
Courtesy of the Daily Mail All of us have been swept up in the horrible violence and rhetoric that occurred last weekend in Charlottesville, VA. As you probably know, the initial spark to this was...
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The Beauty of Social Media isn’t Just Skin Deep
A street in Paris My my trip a few weeks ago In past posts, I have referenced the anthropology-based work around various technology platforms I had the privilege to develop, including a study on Social...
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The Other Side to Media’s Unrealistic Depictions of Beauty
Apologies for the break in posts over the past few weeks. I’ve been cooking up a whole new aspect to my blog! Stay tuned for the upcoming changes. Courtesy of Numero Magazine I was flying back from...
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A Call for Eroticism
In this week’s edition of The New Yorker, I came across a quick story by Peter Schjeldahl, “The Roaring Stetties,” about the artist Florine Stettheimer. In anticipation of The Jewish Museum’s...
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Beauty in the Workplace: How We Can Embrace, Not Fear, A Multi-Generational...
Within minutes of me publishing last week’s post, The Role of Ugliness and the Need to Address the Topic Head On, I received a very interesting plea by one of the readers. He urged me to address...
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Get a Glimpse into Future Fashion/Beauty Tech Trends From CES Veteran, Robin...
Welcome back to our series of wearable tech podcasts. Apologies for the slight respite these past few weeks, I was braving it at SXSW. But now I’m back and super excited to share the brilliant...
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Podcast #4: Fashion Tech Rock Stars Show Their Amazing Wares and Share What...
I’m really excited about bringing to you all our fourth podcast in our fashion-tech series of conversations from the NRF Big Show. For this discussion I had the honor of co-hosting with my hilarious...
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Want to Fight Sexism? Don’t Eschew Beauty — Embrace It!
Nigerian feminist and author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, hits the nail on the head, again! This isn’t the first time I’ve brought her up. You may recall that I wrote about this in a recent post,...
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Want to Take a Stand? Use the World of Beauty
Conversations around beauty have been a source of ugliness and racism this week thanks to the former West Virginia mayor and her disgusting post about our lovely and intelligent first lady. And we...
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Can Images of War & Destruction be Beautiful?
RICHARD MOSSE-Of-Lilies-and-Remains Follow the news and there’s no shortage of imagery of war and it’s destructive side-effects. Can these images actually be considered beautiful? The Jack Shainman...
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Stand Beautiful on Feminism — For More Reasons Than You Think
Lots of wonderful buzz this week about female empowerment, especially amongst us nasty women ;). The election has certainly heightened our awareness, emotions and convictions around this topic. But...
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