Bodies in a black hole: Greta Ilieva for Dazed

10 May

Credits: Photography: Greta Ilieva at D+V ManagementMake-up: Anne Sophie Costa at D+V ManagementHair: Alfie Sackett at LGANails: Lauren Michelle Pires at D+V ManagementSet Design: Kim Harding at The Magnet AgencyTalent: Amira c/o Gemma Green at Models 1, Lisa T c/o Brogan Loftus at Linden Staub, Wenjing c/o Max Tuson at Storm, Blue Sumrie c/o Maxime Kornienko at Titanium, Hirschy c/o Jamie Horridge at The Squad and Aidan c/o Sasha Handley at Named Models.Movement Director: Ryan ChappellPhoto Assistant: Joseph ReedyMake-up Assistants: Luz Giraldo, Lindsay Low, Lauren Webster and Yoko NakataHair Assistants: Carlyn Griscti and Liam RussellRetouching: Hempstead MayProduction: Elise Lebrun at D+V ManagementCasting: Mathilde Curel at AM Casting ...

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3 May

Challengers missed a possibility to highlight female athletes’ bodies

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Challengers missed a possibility to highlight female athletes’ bodies

Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers confronts our understanding of relationships, but author Halima Jibril asks why it doesn’t go further in difficult our understanding of femininity and who's considered desirable It’s difficult to not take into consideration Tashi Duncan’s (Zendaya) body while watching Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. Once we're first introduced to the teenager tennis star, she walks onto the court in a white Adidas tennis dress that hugs her body perfectly. Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor) ogle at her because the wind blows one side of her skirt up, revealing a glimpse of her right butt cheek. After her match, we again watch Art and Patrick stare upon Tashi while she dances at...

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27 Feb

Moody Month: the app designed to assist women higher

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Moody Month: the app designed to assist women higher

Created by women, for ladies For hundreds of years, there was a stigma surrounding periods: from 73 AD when the primary Latin encyclopedia implied that contact with menstrual blood would mean “crops change into barren”, “fruit of trees fall off” and “hives of bees die”, to the current day where tampon tax still stubbornly stays casting tampons into the category of “luxury.” Periods are still in lots of cases a taboo, so Moody Month is here to vary that. Founded by Amy Thomson, Moody Month is a mood and hormone cycle tracker designed to assist women higher understand their bodies, filling the void of female produced, female-focused technology. The tech company built by women, for...

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8 Feb

In 2019, are people still shaving their bodies?

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In 2019, are people still shaving their bodies?

We examine the consequences of the gender revolution on the shaving industry Hair removal has an extended and wealthy cultural history. There’s evidence to suggest that ladies removed their hair back in ancient Egyptian times (via tweezer-like devices constructed from sea shells). By the sixteenth century, it was less in regards to the removal of body hair, more in regards to the removal of hair from the face. Apart from perfectly plucked eyebrows, somewhat surprisingly, women removed hairs from their hairline – to make their foreheads appear larger – as demonstrated by Queen Elizabeth I. It was in 1760 that the primary men’s razor was created by a French barber named Jean Jacques...

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