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Diversity
Hack Attack
“68 percent of women can’t identify with the images they see in ads.” – Dove’s Global Beauty and Confidence Report, 2016 Creative agency Mindshare in Denmark are on a mission – destroy advertiser’s ideas of ‘real’ women. The reason? The media’s portrayal of women across both digital and print are wildly unidentifiable for women across...
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It’s been revealed that the pair responsible for the Oscar’s ‘Best Picture’ blunder and so called ‘envelopegate’ will not be working with the Academy Awards in the future. President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, has voiced her anger at the mistake that she feels has ultimately stolen the...
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Since moving away to university I have met a range of people from a variety of different backgrounds, and whilst being shocked when hearing their life stories I feel as though it has taught me to become much more open minded towards individual people. It’s important that we embrace diverse opinions and outlooks and learn from...
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Elsa - Frozen
Over the past couple of weeks the internet has been awash with campaigns, tweets and articles urging Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend in Frozen 2. The campaign comes from the growing frustration of a lack of diversity from the production company – instead giving us countless white, heterosexual relationships. Putting this type of pressure...
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For any woman interested in fashion, Caryn Franklin needs no introduction. As presenter of the BBC’s The Clothes Show in the late 1980s and 1990s, before the internet explosion, she was to many the only insight into one of the most desirable and fascinating industries in the world.  Caryn was also Fashion Editor and Co-Editor...
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Caryn Franklin’s ongoing commitment and passion, along with Debra Bourne and model Erin O’Connor, to promote and celebrate greater diversity within the fashion industry, resulted in the founding of an initiative entitled All Walks Beyond the Catwalk. Endorsed by the British Fashion Council and drawing support from iconic photographer Rankin, this is the first time...
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