(English) The pages of the August issue of VOGUE Italia look nothing short of deadly. The spreads illustrate a shocking, painful yet incredibly powerful visual message. The ‘Water & Oil’ images shot by Steven Meisel, feature a Kristen McMenamy covered in oil and were inspired by the recent oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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¡Photoshop me!

Are the photographers and agencies allowed to change the colour, skin texture, hear or face expression of the models? Considering the use of digital images. The creation and correction: What do the models think when they see the final work?

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(English) The most original and outgoing show (as far as I have seen) was definitely of Vivienne Westwood. She got her inspiration from the street, from Africa, from Jack Sparrow, and of course a bit of Britain.

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(English) But the end of the 20th century has shown us a dramatical change: The whole concept of beauty is not what it once was. Now beauty is something more mysterious, and tends to be more in the eye of the beholder, meaning that one’s concept of beauty can differ from another’s.

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(English) Over the past few years we have been hearing the phrase “Mutton dressed as lamb”
rather often. The term is used to describe middle-aged or elderly people trying to look
younger. But these poor women who usually lie about their age for sheer fear of being
rejected, often have no other choice but to end up looking like lambs!

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(English) A London based American taxidermy artist who designs and creates the most incredible pieces of fashion jewellery, all from organically sourced deceased creatures who are found on the streets of London town. (For those of you about to call PETA please put the phone down and re-read. We are talking about animals who died victims of: road kill, pest control or natural causes such as the latest snow blizzard.)

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(English) The timing couldn’t be more perfect, don’t you think? Weren’t we all starting to stress about our lovely new “Christmas tripes” whilst the words “loose those 10 kg by February” appear among various other New Year’s resolutions on our lists.

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(English) Now here’s a topic I found interesting: The unbreakable link between the fashion and smoking. Smoking within fashion circles has and still continues to be inextricably common practice, regardless of increasing smoking bans and anti-smoking campaigns.

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(English) Lately there has been a lot of talk about fashion designers being inspired by Japanese street style. Other than that, the unconventional look of for example the Harajuku girls have been used for show purposes and seen as style icons for years now.

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(English) Top supermodels like Christy Turlington, Stephanie Seymour, Amber Smith, Carre Otis, Amy Wesson among many others, are well known for sporting one or more tattoos on their bodies, which they use to express themselves and that – let me tell you mum – has not prevented them at all from having a successful career.

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