disabled – Beautifaire

24 Feb

Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals “I'm in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to 2 men, my friends, discuss whether my life is price living.” So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist author Chloé Cooper Jones. It’s not the primary time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. Not the primary time it’s been discussed as if separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing...

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7 Jul

Why is fashion so afraid of disabled models?

by Beauty Tips

Beauty, Featured

Despite representing 24 per cent of the population, models with visible disabilities feature in 0.02 per cent of fashion campaigns For all its overtures to self-expression, the style industry is probably less involved in beauty, and more involved in shielding itself from whatever it sees as ugly. Over the past couple of years, an increasingly diverse approach to casting has seen “curve”, POC, and trans models repositioned as figures of aspiration – but progress is never linear and the access afforded to some minority groups has only exacerbated the absence of others. Models with visible disabilities, for instance, rarely appear on high-end runways, seemingly destined to make tokenistic appearances in lingerie line-ups. This...

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28 Apr

What The Disabled Community Has Taught Selma Blair

by Beautifaire101

Fashion

Selma Blair owes all of it to the disabled community round her. Footage of Selma Blair, a white female with short bleach blonde hair, sitting in a chair and talking to the camera wearing a black long-sleeved fitted dress with black suede heels. Her right hand is resting on a black lacquered cane with a silver handle. Subscribe to British Vogue►► https://www.youtube.com/britishvogue?sub_confirmation=1 CONNECT WITH BRITISH VOGUE Web: https://www.vogue.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/britishvogue Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britishvogue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/britishvogue Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/britishvogue Newsletter: https://www.vogue.co.uk/newsletters Subscribe: https://www.vogue.co.uk/subscribe ABOUT BRITISH VOGUE British Vogue is the world’s leading premium lifestyle and fashion entertainment channel. Weekly releases and brand latest original programming including short movies, series and in-depth documentaries, British Vogue’s channel is the last word destination for unprecedented access into the world of fashion, beauty and culture. ...

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20 Apr