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Designer Prosthetics: A Modern Solution for Aesthetics
Prosthetics have come drastically far from the first prosthetic hand, Le Petit Lorrain, designed by French surgeon Ambroise Paré in the 16th Century. However, aesthetically, not that much has been changed. With 3D printing now becoming a useable and more affordable option, innovation and uniqueness are the new selling points of improved modern prostheses; designer prosthetics. Why we need to upgrade to designer prosthetics Prosthetics can change lives every single day. For those who need them, they are a lifeline which gives them immeasurable gifts of activity, freedom and independence. These bionic and artificial limbs envision the possibility of our transhuman futures, undaunted by biological weakness and enhanced by technological advancement…
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Can We Improve Plus Size Options?
MIKA once said, “Big girl, you are beautiful,” and I would like to begin by saying that in 2007, he was right. His well-loved song was almost ten years early to the party as it was 2017 by the time we started to see some real change in the fashion industry in terms of normalising plus-size beauty. With campaigns for change pioneered by the Women’s Equality Party and their hashtag #NoSizeFitsAll, people began taking notice at London Fashion Week of the size 12 and above models strutting the catwalk in a higher quantity than ever. So we would expect a lot has changed since then, three years later, right? Unfortunately,…
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Unapologetically Butch: The Women Blurring the Boundaries
Fashion is undeniably gendered. On a rather short spectrum, women are described as beautiful, maybe pretty. The men, they are handsome and dapper. So, what happens to the others stranded somewhere in the middle? Where does butch fashion enter the conversation? Butch or femme? Oh, or kiki? During the period of the 1940s up to the 1960s, lesbian identities were perceived as occupying predominantly two sexual and emotional spaces. Those spaces were either butch or femme, (anyone in-between was labelled the pejorative “kiki.”) However, the occupation of the butch identity has never been an easy option. Historically, butch lesbians have been persecuted for their masculine appearances, they have been perceived…
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Should We Choose Fast Fashion or Conscious Buying?
When it’s easier to turn a blind eye to the problems of fast fashion, how do we even try to start solving the problem? The problems caused by fast fashion Fast fashion is quickly becoming a phrase that is actually starting to mean something to the people spending their money on it. With its utterance conjuring images of sweatshops, mountains of clothing destined to be worn once and never again, and oceans polluted with microfibers, fast fashion seems to be something we hate, but are doing little about. The company Boohoo, now recognised as one of the UK’s online clothing giants and valued at around £4.3 million, has recently been…
