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9 Aug

Move over body positivity, body neutrality is the brand

Move over body positivity, body neutrality is the brand
‘Body positivity’ is old news in response to the Guardian. What once was meant to encourage women to have a good time their bodies, has been completely co-opted by brands, and now there’s a latest term taking up: ‘body neutrality’. It’s a mindset some, like Taylor Swift, credit Jameela Jamil, actor and founding father of the @i_weigh movement, for where people have a good time radical inclusion and the things that society makes them feel ashamed of – all the things from having pimples to being bisexual.  The truth is, the nuanced term was not created by Jamil in response to the outlet. It has been spoken of since around 2015, becoming popular circa 2017 due to fitness coach Anne Poirier...
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28 Oct

Sephora’s Zena Srivatsa Arnold on Her Move to Retail

Sephora’s Zena Srivatsa Arnold on Her Move to Retail
Zena Srivatsa Arnold’s LinkedIn page reads like a meteoric rise through the blue-chip business world. Procter & Gamble, Kellogg, Google, Kimberly-Clark. Present and accounted for. What’s not on there's one of the vital formative experiences of her young profession — as a Lancôme beauty associate at a Dillard’s department store in Cincinnati. The time was the early 2000s, and Srivatsa Arnold was a young graduate armed with a level in computer science just because the dot.com scene imploded. Quite than let her mope across the house, Srivatsa Arnold’s mother drove her to the local mall and told her to search out a job. The experience turned out to be transformational. “I went into it pondering, ‘It’s retail. It’s going to be easy....
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20 Sep

Move over body positivity, body neutrality is the brand

Move over body positivity, body neutrality is the brand
The brand new term recognises that it’s OK to not at all times feel positive about yourself, but it surely’s not an ideal antidote to the body positive mindset’s shortcomings ‘Body positivity’ is old news in line with the Guardian. What once was meant to encourage women to have a good time their bodies, has been completely co-opted by brands, and now there’s a recent term taking up: ‘body neutrality’. It’s a mindset some, like Taylor Swift, credit Jameela Jamil, actor and founding father of the @i_weigh movement, for where people have a good time radical inclusion and the things that society makes them feel ashamed of – the whole lot from having...
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20 Jun

EXCLUSIVE: Vestiaire Collective’s Customers Move to Higher Brands After

EXCLUSIVE: Vestiaire Collective’s Customers Move to Higher Brands After
PARIS – Vestiaire Collective’s move to take fast fashion out of its brand mix has resulted in a lift within the positive environmental impact from its resale model, in line with its latest impact report. Last November the corporate moved to ban fast fashion brands, including Asos, Shein, Burton, Fashion Nova, Pretty Little Thing, Missguided, Topman, Topshop and Tezenis, amongst others. According the the impact report, 80 percent of respondents said that they're investing in higher-quality pieces because of this and 58 percent said they're buying fewer fast fashion items as an upscaling knock-on effect of buying higher items. “It’s a positive sign to say, ‘You realize what, you possibly can live without fast fashion, and move on to raised made and more...
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