Modeling is a dream occupation for many young women, but for those who make modeling a career, finding work can be a traumatic, sexualized nightmare, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds.
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2024
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Extreme heat and flooding are threatening key international apparel hubs, with four countries vital to the fashion industry facing losses of 1 million jobs and $65 billion in earnings by 2030, according to two new ILR School ...
Economics & Business
Sep 18, 2023
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New research reveals the exceptional singing skills of contestants on reality TV shows may be stopping people from singing in public.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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With the changing societal body image in America, plus size models have gained in popularity and positively impacted a body inclusive model of beauty. As such, plastic surgeons will likely see an increased demand for procedures ...
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2022
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It is often implied that all we need are technological solutions and more renewable energy to solve our environmental issues. But history teaches us that as technology progresses and we become more efficient, we simply consume ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2022
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The fast-industrial fashion system, where profits go mostly to those at the top, and which produces high volumes of deliberate waste, is a dinosaur that will not survive the transition to sustainability. So believes textile ...
Economics & Business
Nov 9, 2018
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Researchers have developed a mathematical model that is able to assess whether a person is fashionably dressed and to give advice on how to make the outfit more fashionable.
Computer Sciences
Jul 14, 2015
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(Phys.org) -- Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2012
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A new computational model accurately reproduces the way fashions travel through a culture, as reported in the Mar. 7 issue of the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Computer Sciences
Mar 7, 2012
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Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.
Robotics
Mar 16, 2009
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