For good reason, Ralph Lauren is distancing himself  from this extremely altered photo of model Filippa Hamilton, who at 5′10″ and 120 pounds was allegedly fired for being too fat to wear the designer’s Town and Country fashions.

Last week, the website BoingBoing posted the image online, upsetting the Lauren team for the bad p.r. which suggests the fashion house likes its models emaciated. According to Shine, public interest prodded the company to offer an apology for the “poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a …

Tags: body image , copyright , diet , fashion , health , Kelly Clarkson , media , models , nutrition , Philippa Hamilton , Ralph Lauren , weight

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Read all about it! Entertainment Weekly has published the first video advert with built-in speakers to get the attention of readers conditioned to respond to screens.

A report by the BBC explains the screen is built into a wafer-thin, cardboard insert and contains an ad for Pepsi Max, as well as trailers for CBS television.

“This is an extraordinary way to refresh how we interact with consumers,” said Pepsi-Cola’s chief marketing officer, Frank Cooper.

Desperate ploy, marketing breakthrough or annoyance? The chip technology, which holds up …

Tags: adverts , batteries , CBS , computers , consumers , entertainment , greeting cards , liquid crystal display , Magazines , media , paper , Pepsi , print , readers , rechargeable , sales , technology , television ads

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For three years you’ve stood in line at the local supermarket staring, hoping the woman in front of you will say, “No thank you, I have my own bags.”

In April, you balance this dilemma with glancing sideways at the Vanity Fair green issue tucked in beside the National Enquirer and Martha Stewart Home. You have people who understand you somewhere out there. The cover is proof, you think, wielding your reusable bags like armor.

You want to say to the woman in front of you while holding the green issue up (as …

Tags: green renaissance , media , Vanity Fair green issue

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It’s no secret that the media tends to focus on the negative instead of the positive, feature problems instead of solutions and evoke despondency instead of motivation. Looking to refresh your optimism?

Ode magazine, ” for intelligent optimists”, offers a healthy dose of inspiration. In each uplifting issue, you’ll find stories regarding active efforts towards a progressive environmental, social and economical revolution, not to mention insightful columns by renowned figures like Paolo Coelho, Amy Domini and David Servan-Shreiber.

Take it from Foreign Policy: “Read Ode, and you may just figure out …

Tags: current affairs , journalism , magazine , media , news , Ode Magazine , positive news

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I love magazines and I love travel but not every travel magazine does it for me. My eyes start to glaze over at the terrible sameness of so many resorts, while my heart sinks at the knowledge that the “paradise” they are selling is all too often actually a former one.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, with a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot. – Joni Mitchell
You won’t find a bikini model on the front of Wend Magazine. It’s mainly focused on adventure …

Tags: Greenery , magazine , media , sustainability , travel , Wend

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Is print dead? Not for CB2, which is selling art weaves of 75% recycled international newspapers.

The new Edition textile print, $99.95, cleverly frames the papers around a colorful square of 25% recycled canvases. The 48″x42″ hanging is handloomed and comes packaged in a cotton drawstring bag.

It’s all part of the furniture company’s limited edition art introduced in its new winter catalog. Many of the pieces, like this weaving, are reasonably priced, allowing you to grow your art collection on a budget. Since they come from special looms, CB2 …

Tags: decor , eco friendly , handmade , media , news , reuse

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Meet Sammy Wilson. He believes that mankind is not to blame for global warming. Which, in itself, isn’t a big deal. After all, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. There are many people around the world who also share this view. But Sammy Wilson is Northern Ireland’s environment minister. And as such, he is in a position to influence peoples actions and reactions to environmental issues. So his recent denouncement of a British climate change ad as “insidious propaganda” and subsequent banning of the ad …

Tags: ad , climate change , global warming , media , Northern Ireland , public service , Sammy Wilson , UK

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Fuller breasts, a smaller tush, flatter tummy – all without a diet or breaking a sweat. That’s what cosmetic surgery can do, and mainstream magazines are happily filling pages in their publications with information about it.

A recent issue of  Women’s Health Issues, a Canadian-based medical journal, took a closer look at what the media is sharing with their readers. The study, entitled: “Representations of Cosmetic Surgery and Emotional Health in Women’s Magazines in Canada”, examines how popular women’s magazines portray cosmetic surgery and associated emotional health.

Five English-language women’s …

Tags: body image , cosmetic surgery , emotional health , feminism , media , medicalization , self esteem , wellness , women

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