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New AI modelling agency champions unfiltered beauty

A new digital modeling agency aims to redefine the landscape of online fashion and beauty. Called Hum.ai.n, the agency seeks to break barriers presenting a new form of beauty, characterized by diversity, individuality and inclusivity, but most importantly breaking the boundaries of gender and what constitutes “physical beauty.” Digitisation has...

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Age no barrier for China's senior catwalk models

Wearing a bright floral ensemble with her short hair dyed blonde, Chinese model Ma Yinhong struts a Shanghai catwalk with a style and swagger that belie her 56 years. She made her modelling debut just two years ago and is already in demand, working for leading fashion brands such as Dolce & Gabbana. Ma is one of a growing number of older models...

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Video: Kaia Gerber 2018 Runway compilation

Take a look at some of Kaia Gerber's runway moments from this past year. Source:A FASHION, YouTube.

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Video: Bella Hadid's 2018 Runway compilation

Take a look at some of Bella Hadid's runway moments from this past year. Source:A FASHION, YouTube.

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Video: Yasmin Wijnaldum 2018 runway compilation

Take a look at some of Yasmin Wijnaldum's runway moments from this past year. Source:A FASHION, YouTube.

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Video: In Discussion With: CFDA's Steven Kolb

As the industry wrestles with big questions, the Council of Fashion Designers of America has often been looked to as something of a professed think tank for American fashion. Source: FORD Models, YouTube.

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French fashion giants LVMH & Kering ban ultra-thin models

A host of French-owned fashion labels spanning Christian Dior to Saint Laurent pledged Wednesday to ban ultra-thin models from their advertising and catwalk shows following criticism that the industry encourages anorexia. French holding companies LVMH and Kering, which own dozens of top brands between them, unveiled a charter "to ensure the...

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Why female models top the catwalk cash charts

It is a rare exception to the rule: the gender salary gap in the fashion industry means female models are paid more than their male counterparts for the same job. None of the dozens of buffed and toned men parading at the latest Milan menswear shows since Friday can dream of earning anything like female catwalk stars, or of equivalent fame....

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Why top runway fashion models never smile

They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? "You don't smile. It is just not done," said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born Londoner has...

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Catwalk models beware as Instagram builds new model army

As catwalk stars criss-cross the globe for fashion week season, modelling agencies are increasingly using social media worldwide to scout out their new faces, to the alarm of some. Leading agencies such as IMG, Elite and Nevs and fashion houses including Marc Jacobs have all taken to sites such as photo-sharing service Instagram to recruit...

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Sexual harassment remains rife in modeling industry

Everyone in the fashion industry is aware of the blurred lines that exist between creativity and sexuality, none so more prevalent than in the modelling industry. To create amazing images and campaigns that illicit thought, that inspire, and that capture the zeitgeist means models are subjected to all kinds of odd requests by photographers and...

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Abercrombie says Goodbye to in-store Abs and over-‘Sexualised Marketing’

In spite of the saying ‘sex sells’, US fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. has decided to turn over a new leaf in its battle against declining sales and is saying goodbye to the shirtless in-store models with perfect six packs it was once famed for. A&F axes store policies dictating employees levels attractiveness The teen fashion retailer,...