Another prime example of a solution can be seen through the company Naturally Perfect, a company that creates colored dolls, in a market, which lacks dolls for African-American and Black girls. Founders of Naturally Perfect, Angelica and Jason, created their company after their daughter was discontent and deeply influenced by how there were no dolls that resembled her, “Like most young girls with kinky/curly hair, my daughter Sophia was not happy with her kinks and curls because of the doll I was
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"New Barbie Ad Features a Fabulous First." An article written by Elizabeth Moore from Newser.com explains the shocking ad released by Mattel's Barbie, a brand that has been advertised at young girls for years. The ad was the first to have a young boy as the star of the commercial. This ad came out in 2015 but represents one of the biggest topics of this century: Gender. How many genders are there? What are genders? Are genders assigned at birth, or should a child grow into it? Many people have individual
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Zara uses a mixture of strategies when sourcing their production. It uses most of outsourcing to produce basic items and initial fashion collection. It outsources about half of its production to third party (of the outsourced 60% from Europe, 30% from Asia, 10% rest of world). The sourcing strategy with external suppliers is based on expertise, relative cost, transportation cost and most importantly time sensitivity. At the beginning of each season Zara commits 50-60 % of its inventory, while quarter
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Trickle down is when the styles from high fashion presented on the the runways are adapted by cheaper brands and street styles. A good example of this is the horizontal stripes first seen in the Chanel runways. Since then this trend has been used by many other brands such as Zara and H&M. Both Zara and H&M have used and adapted the coco chanel stripes in shirts, shoes, trouser, shorts, skirts and even bags. This trend has been show case throughout the years and never seems to go out of trend
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Fashion and Its Multi-Cultural Facets Critical Issues Series Editors Dr Robert Fisher Lisa Howard Dr Ken Monteith Advisory Board Karl Spracklen Katarzyna Bronk Jo Chipperfield Ann-Marie Cook Peter Mario Kreuter S Ram Vemuri Simon Bacon Stephen Morris John Parry Ana Borlescu Peter Twohig Kenneth Wilson John Hochheimer A Critical Issues research and publications project. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ The Ethos Hub ‘Fashion’ 2014 Fashion and
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The Contradictions of Chaos and Order The film SLC: Punk! follows a group of friends taking part in the Punk movement during the year 1985 in the religiously oppressed Salt Lake City as they attempt to create and spread chaos. Chaos, which the characters in the film use almost interchangeably with anarchy, is the only rule they live by. However, living by anarchy as their one rule, a contradiction in itself since anarchy means no rules, is just one of the many contradictions in the punk belief system
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One of the primary concerns of feminism is, and has been for a while, not only gender inequality in social and political terms, but also the way both sexes are viewed by the society. People’s mentality is a source of stereotypes, gender stereotypes in particular. Marge Piercy, a poet and a feminist, considers these stereotypes a serious issue, which is inevitably reflected in her creativity, particularly the four poems under analysis – “Barbie Doll”, “What Are Big Girls Made Of?”, “Rape Poem” and
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The article “Normal Barbie: An average kind of beauty” was very ingesting and I wish that they came up with this idea, when I was a little girl. Growing up I use to play with Barbie and her friends all the time. While I was playing with them, sometimes I wished that I was just as skinny or looked exactly like her. She made me think that there was something wrong with how I looked and that I was not beautiful enough. I got over it once I was older, but I know that I was not the only little girl that
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Children never sit back and think how the toys they play with affect how they see the world around them; and often the adult in their lives don’t worry about how much their child’s favorite can affect them, now and in their futures. With Barbie being a popular child’s toy for decades, and with her in a world that has become increasingly filled with ways the media can reach children, one can wonder, how much of an impact does a seemingly docile doll have on children? Barbie caused quite a stir when
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collision into the fashion world. Four years out of Design school, McQueen was named the Chief Designer of Louis Vitton-owned Givenchy- French haute fashion house. He claims the job “constrained his creativity” yet during his time there he still pushed boundaries and won British designer of the year in 1996, 1997 and 2001. In 2000, Gucci bought a 51% stake in McQueen’s private company, providing capital for expansion. He was awarded International Designer of the year by Council of Fashion Designers of
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