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Sarah Haskins: Fashion Expert on the Rachel Maddow Show

Social Commentary post by Kjerstin Johnson, Submitted by Kjerstin Johnson on October 15, 2009 - 10:58am; tagged fashion, fashion models, Felippa Hamilton, Rachel Maddow, Ralph Lauren, Sarah Haskins, weight.

By now maybe you've heard of Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton's contract being terminated because she was "too fat." (And all this after she was horrendously photoshopped.)

Who better than tackle the topic than Target Women's Sarah Haskins, who was on the Rachel Maddow Show last night! If you missed it, here's the clip...(it also shows what happens when their graphic design team uses the same Photoshop dimensions on Rachel Maddow!)

"Ralph Lauren is just playing the game with everyone else. I think this incident primarily explains, to me, why Ralph Lauren fired...me."

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Bitch Popaganda: Superwomen (or Lack Thereof) Edition

Audio post by Kelsey Wallace, Submitted by Kelsey Wallace on September 5, 2009 - 7:30pm; tagged audio, Bitch Popaganda, Disney, fashion models, Glamour, Marvel, plus-size, Superwomen, Top Chef.

Welcome back to another episode of Bitch Popaganda! (It's like The View but with less makeup.) Tune in to this episode to hear Andi, Briar, and Kelsey weigh in on Disney's purchase of Marvel Comics, the gender dynamics and d-bags on the new season of Top Chef, and Glamour's newfound appreciation of plus-sized models.

Listen by streaming right here, or download the episode here and listen on the go!

Leave your comments and check out links to our Bitch Faves after the jump!

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Runway Robot Debuts Old Stereotypes

DigiBitch post by Lea Zeltserman, Submitted by Lea Zeltserman on April 16, 2009 - 10:51pm; tagged fashion models, fembot, Japan, robots, technology.

There’s a new brand of supermodel in town, and, good news for the fashion industry, hunger-fuelled temper tantrums aren’t part of her coding. It’s the HRP-4C fembot, who made her entrance down the catwalk at Tokyo Fashion Week last month.

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When Tyra Met Naomi

Race, Fashion, and Rivalry

Article by Hawa Allan, Illustrated by Caitlin Kuhwald, appeared in issue Green; published in 2006; filed under Social commentary; tagged competition, fashion, fashion models, media, race, tv.

Race, Fashion, and Rivalry

Green

One of the last places I expected to hear an engaging antiracist and feminist critique of the fashion industry was on The Tyra Banks Show. But on a January 2006 episode, there was Banks, sitting couch-to-couch with supposed archnemesis and fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell, discussing the forces that years ago had pitted the two women against each other on the assumption that America had room for only one black top model.

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Hail Harper's

An Ode

Article by Erin Keating, appeared in issue Issue #2; published in 1996; filed under Social commentary; tagged beauty standards, body image, fashion, fashion models, Harper's, magazines.

An Ode

Issue #2

My arm fell asleep, I got so engrossed. This issue of Harper’s Bazaar is about as big as a bible—and just as full of prophecy.

I fall in love with the models, their blackened eyes and plaster pigment, all pinched and compressed into vinyl and leather, looking hot hot hot and totally unfazed. They are the visions of me that I will never see.

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