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14 Aug

Honey Ross is the body image activist reclaiming what

Honey Ross is the body image activist reclaiming what
Growing up in leafy North London, 22-year-old screenwriter and body image activist Honey Ross had a sophisticated childhood. With each her mum and pop noted for his or her successes within the TV and film industries, she spent her youth somewhat in the general public eye, which she explains gave her a “huge desire for attention, but additionally incredibly severe anxiety.” So whilst spending her teenage years securing internships and odd jobs within the film industry – which paid off when she landed her first skilled screenwriting gig at 18 – her ambition was combined with crippling teenage insecurity and body image struggles. “I really hated myself growing up,” Honey says. “I believe it was a mix of that typical low-level teenage...
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12 Aug

Most of us won’t ever feel confident with our

Most of us won’t ever feel confident with our
A recent survey of two,000 people carried out by OnePoll on behalf of the Fashion Retail Academy, sadly shows that the majority Brits never come to terms with their body image. 57 per cent admit they’ve never reached the purpose of body confidence and 29 per cent said don’t feel confident when searching for clothes.  “Living within the digital age, through which the airbrush is used a bit too liberally, it is simple to see why people feel self-conscious about their body image. Consumers are being always bombarded with unrealistic images of the human form,” says Lee Lucas, principal and CEO of the Fashion Retail Academy. The outcomes also show that on average, men are more confident than women with their body...
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19 May

Self-quantification apps are changing how we relate to body

Self-quantification apps are changing how we relate to body
As self-quantification goes mainstream, we query how it'd shape the longer term of beauty With over 260,000 health and wellbeing apps within the Apple store specializing in all the pieces from mental health to menstruation, not to say the default Health tracking app Apple robotically provides you with, it is tough to withstand the allure of those devices. While at present only 20 percent of Brits use health tracking devices, the variety of connected wearables worldwide is predicted to reach 830 million by 2020, a remarkable 60 percent increase in only 4 years. As we share increasingly personal information with these devices, technologies get exponentially smarter, repeatedly in search of to optimise the human condition and...
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25 Feb

Most of us won’t ever feel confident with our

Most of us won’t ever feel confident with our
A recent survey of two,000 people carried out by OnePoll on behalf of the Fashion Retail Academy, sadly shows that the majority Brits never come to terms with their body image. 57 per cent admit they’ve never reached the purpose of body confidence and 29 per cent said don’t feel confident when searching for clothes.  “Living within the digital age, wherein the airbrush is used somewhat too liberally, it is simple to see why people feel self-conscious about their body image. Consumers are being continuously bombarded with unrealistic images of the human form,” says Lee Lucas, principal and CEO of the Fashion Retail Academy. The outcomes also show that on average, men are more confident than women with their body image, nonetheless,...
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