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Looking a certain way club. Members only
Diversity is not a business add-on Beauty is in the eye of the beholder This quote refers to the fact that all things or people are beautiful but it depends who is viewing them and if the beholder is the fashion industry, then beauty looks a lot like an army of white, tall, skinny young models. For far too long, fashion has prided itself on its exclusivity, on its member club like mentality where if you don’t look a certain way from our age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, or national origin then you cannot be a member of this ‘club.’ Until only recently brands were in denial…
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Seeing yourself for the first time
The good, the bad and the self love “and I said to my body. softly. ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this” For as long as I can remember there has been a timeline of my life where I have hated my body and not seen myself properly. In primary school I felt too tall I would tower over the boys in my class then in high school this was not longer a problem, great right? No, you develop new issues for yourself. Now I felt like the bigger one in the group, I had…