The legendary fashion designer’s influence stretches back across decades.
Tag: Beauty (Concept)
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How Henri Matisse (and I) Got a ‘Beautiful Body’
The new limitations of the artist’s body became an opportunity for renewal. With paint, scissors and paper, he constructed a new self.
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How Kirstie Alley Used Her Body
Long before the current body-positivity movement, Ms. Alley made people think about fatness on TV, often at her own expense.
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Beauty Over Brains: Japan’s Skin-Deep University Pageants
The contests reflect a culture that often judges women by their appearance and slots them into rigid, gender-defined roles.
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Black Can Be Even More Beautiful
A survey of work by the celebrated photographer Kwame Brathwaite shows the early promise of a movement that profoundly affected American culture yet still remains unfulfilled.