Mind-bending and Filtered Faces: 85% of girls have edited their body in photos by age 13

There’s no denying that mind-bending social media filters and image editing apps can have a lasting, harmful impact on self-esteem — especially when deployed to radically edit a body to comply with unrealistic beauty standards. New research has revealed that a shocking 85% of girls have applied filters or used an app to change the way they look in their photos by the time they are 13. It’s clear that urgent action, whether through policy or education, is needed to change the way we post and consume images online.

Feature, 2021_3Tamara CincikMay 4, 2021Selfie culture, Social Media, body image, Diversity

Does Love Island have a negative effect on viewers’ body image? By Melissa Chaplin

The television event of the summer begins tonight. At 9pm on ITV, millions of viewers will tune in to watch oiled, sleek singletons compete for one another’s affections. Ah, modern romance. Although tremendously popular, (last year’s season premier was watched by almost 3 million people), the show has attracted criticism on a variety of fronts. One issue in particular that has been highlighted is that of the unrealistic beauty standards portrayed in the show.

Tamara CincikJune 3, 2019body positivity, body image, diversity

FR Event Success: Body Image and Identity Politics

Last Wednesday Fashion Roundtable partnered with The Hox Holborn for our Body Image and Identity Politics Event. The panel, chaired by Tamara Cincik and featuring Caryn Franklin MBE, Farrah Storr Editor of Cosmopolitan, Chidera Eggerue intersectional feminist and founder of #saggyboobsmatter, Jules Von Hep celebrity spray tanner and body positivity advocate, Grace Woodward TV presenter and stylist and Jacob Mallison Bird Drag artist, model and Oxford PHD student, discussed identity and body positive body image with a focus on inclusion, diversity and representation.

Tamara CincikSeptember 17, 2018body image, body positivity, sustainable fashion, events, Fashion Roundtable, Fashion Industry

Fashion Roundtable x The Hox Holborn

Bev Malik: “In reality is that it’s actually the negative practice of fat shaming, not feeling included in a fashion conversation and feeling kind of left out, that’s a kind of emotional scar on our society..”

New York's First Gender-Fluid Shop Opens in Noho.

“part community, part retail. We aspire to challenge ideas of the past, so that we can clear the path for a bright, beautiful future - together. ”

Tamara CincikJuly 7, 2018retail, fashion retail, identity politics, body image, non binary, gender free, gender fluid

Fashion Roundtable Event on Body Image and Identity Politics

Tamara CincikJune 18, 2018event, push pr, Fashion Roundtable, body image, diversity, identity politics

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