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(Guardian UK) Teenagers Carina Cruz and Emma Stydahar delivered a 28,000 signature petition to Teen Vogue today to express their distaste for the common magazine practice of airbrushing images.
A group of approximately 10 girls staged a protest fashion show outside the Condé Nast building in Times Square to deliver the petition. Smiling for the cameras, the teenagers walked up and down a makeshift runway (which consisted of a 15-foot long red carpet produced by one of the activists and rolled out on Broadway) holding placards like "Let's get real all girls are beautiful" and "Teen Vogue #KeepItReal."
"I don't think girls should grow up in a world where beauty magazines dictate they should have a low self-esteem," said Emma Stydahar, 17, a high school senior from Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
According to Stydahar, 75% of girls get depressed within three minutes of shuffling through a beauty magazine's pages because the beauty patterns they convey as ideal are unattainable. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/us-news-blog/2012/jul/11/teen-girls-ask-teen-vogue-end-photoshopped-photos
lumpy
(13,704 posts)keep it up
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)against this garbage. it is good to hear.
it is what they will be living, they are the ones that need to tackle it.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)ya know be real be themselves