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Despite the health dangers, the image of the smoker as an elegant, louche, sexy figure is one we’ve never quite been capable of shake as a society. Can anything be done to change that?
Smoking looks cool. It’s an unlucky reality given how bad cigarettes are to your health. Blame movies, blame promoting, blame James Dean, Margot Tenenbaum and Lily-Rose Depp, blame the Marlboro Man – regardless of the source, the image of the smoker as an elegant, louche, sexy figure is one we’ve never quite been capable of shake as a society. Quitting smoking, however, paints a less glamorous picture filled with beige nicotine patches and preachy PSAs. Can something be done...
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With the aesthetics of the 90s and early noughties making a comeback, are we also witnessing a return to the glorification of thinness and glamorisation of medication?
Within the early 90s, the style industry was dominated by waifish models with pale skin and baggy hair. Led by a young Kate Moss and Jaime King, and documented by photographers like Davide Sorrenti and Corinne Day, the trend was controversially dubbed “heroin chic”. It epitomised the last decade’s grunge-inspired nihilism, which served as a pushback against the glossy excess of 80s hedonism. The aesthetic is widely considered to have come to an end with the death of 20-year-old Sorrenti in May 1997. Soon after, the...
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