Be Prepared... The Girl Guides are on the march!

The Girl Guides are launching a petition to have airbrushed photos labelled as such. These girls and young women no longer want to only see and aspire to unnaturally 'perfect' images of women. Body confidence and self esteem is at a low (with 50% of a survey of over 1000 girls aged between 16 to 21 stating they would consider surgery to change their looks) and they want to change that. Their petition will be online tomorrow, so sign up on their website here.

If the Girl Guides was this proactive when I was in them I wouldn't have led a strike and been asked to leave!

TOMS One for One

If women love shoes as much as they say, then this is the way forward for footwear:

Imagine if Imelda Marcos only bought Toms...

Stepanova

'The 'sanctity' of a work as a single entity is destroyed. The museum, which was the treasury of art, is now transformed into an archive'Stepanova with a cigarette, Rodchenko, 1924

'Composition is the contemplative approach of the artist.'
'Technique and Industry have confronted art with the problem of construction as an active process and not reflective.'
For Susie

The Gentlewoman

I saw this magazine posted on my favourite blog and I thought you might like to know about it too.

"The Gentlewoman is a new biannual style magazine for a new decade. Featuring inspirational, international women, it pairs ambitious journalism with a sartorial and intelligent perspective on fashion that is focused on personal style – the way women actually look, think and dress."

A magazine for the modern day gentlewoman