Food, Fashion and Image.

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Philip Singer, 10W1

Food, Fashion and Image

It is the ambitions of many to look as good as the so-called models that we see on the pages of such magazines as Vogue, Cosmo and Elle. The saner of us might well realise that it is near on impossible to look like a picture that has been digitally enhanced, but there still is a big group of (dare I say it) mostly girls that want to look like these bags of bones that we call models.

You can barely go anywhere in the UK (or the rest of the westernised world) without seeing either an advertisement for a beauty product with a model taking the prime spot or a magazine with a supermodel on the front. It is this sort of market saturation that gives our generation the feeling of being inadequate with how we look.

Everyone has their own image of what they think is good-looking or beautiful, and everyone’s will be different, so why should we have the so-called fashion industry try and tell us what we should look like? If someone really likes their horn-rimmed glasses then why shouldn’t they wear them? As long as they’re happy with how they look, it shouldn’t be a problem to anyone else. Why should we listen to the people who supposedly know what looks good? These are the people that think that it is “cool” to wear

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There was a time when men were the ones that didn’t really care about how they looked, but it seems that that has now changed significantly with many men having Botox injections, waxing parts that would not have been even thought of before, and having face lifts like they’re going out of fashion. It now seems that some men are just as vain as their female counterparts, and now many people think that there is as much pressure on men from the fashion industry to look good as women.

On one side we have the fashion industry telling ...

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