Eileen Ford's Enduring Legacy

Heather H. Evans (H.E.) graduated from Harvard Business School in June, 1983. She showed considerable interest in the fashion industry, having some background in this area. She was a fashion model from 1975 through 1979 and, in the summer of 1982, she worked for Jackie Hayman, Inc., as an assistant to the President of this young firm that manufactured designer clothing. An additional valuable asset was that she worked as a financial analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc. from 1979 through 1981 dealing with mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. Her father is an attorney with a Wall Street firm. H.E. graduated from Harvard College in 1979, earning her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. Her previous career as a model gave her a taste of

In “The Fashion Industry: Free to be an Individual” by Hannah Berry, Hannah emphasizes how social media especially advertisements pressure females to use certain product to in order to be considered beautiful. She also acknowledges the current effort of advertisement today to more realistically depicts of women. In addition, these advertisements use the modern women look to advertise products to increase women self-esteem and to encourage women to be comfortable with one’s image.

Under society’s customs for decades, young women have found themselves immersed in the pressure and anticipation to have exemplary bodies. Nearly every young woman prefers to be slim, have a perfectly shaped body, that is beautified by applying pounds of makeup to their face but does not appear ridiculously overdone. Who’s responsible for these measures imposed on young women? When a young girl picks up the model on the cover of Vogue being called flawless, naturally it’s easy for her to then aspire to be a real-life imitation of the that model. These companies produce magazine covers shown with girls’ images daily. As if keeping the perfect body wasn’t hard enough, our culture also forces girls into the forever expanding world of composition, however, body image is a surging subject for young girls. Advertisements and pictures of lean female models are all over. Young women are measured and perplexed by their physical appearances with attire intended to raise their physical structures; social media, magazines, the society, marketing campaigns, advertisements, and the fashion gurus add to a strand of excellence.

“You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine” Jessimae Peluso. Throughout American history, women have continued to strive for an ideal of beauty. Although the definition of beauty has varied between generations, the pressure and desire to fit the mold of what society deems “beautiful” remains consistent among women from all eras. Unfortunately, this abnormal example seen in magazines, on runways, and in social media platforms is impossible for the majority of the female population to physically reach. Women are always pursuing the perfect look, turning to plastic surgeries transform them into celebrity ideals. People who desire perfect appearance ignore the nature of beauty itself, naturality is a kind of beauty. In recent years, women in America turned to look at models to find the ideal beauty standard and if they don’t meet them they turn to face lifts and plastic surgery to perfect their appearance.

Esma Voloder began her journey by winning Miss Teen Australia at the age of 16 in 2008-2009 and has since developed her profile in the fashion and beauty industry and has affiliated her name and ambassador roles with charities such as the Bully Zero Australia Foundation and Variety the Children’s Charity. While focusing mainly on completing Social Science/Psychology degree and charity ambassadorship works, Esma has also worked within the field of Modeling, Beauty Pageants, Commercials, Music Videos, Television, Tourism Promotion and Ambassadorial roles with a look adaptable for commercial, editorial and high-end work achieving many great milestones in her life so far.

Mary Hunter Austin was the author of a novel called The Ford and many other books and articles in the early 1900s. Austin communicated many political themes of the day such as racism, segregation, environmentalism, naturalism, feminism and the wrongs of governmental power. Through the book, you can see traces of Austin’s own troubled personal life as it pertained to men, but you can also see her love for California, the state which she called home for most of her life. As you will see in this paper, many of the issues within The Ford are still relevant to today’s California, and this proves the book is an important reminder of Californian history.

Sister Ita Ford (23 April 1940 - 2 December 1980) was an American Catholic Maryknoll Sister. The Maryknoll Sisters serve the needs of people from around the world. Ford served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She entered the Maryknoll Sisters at the age of 21, but had to leave the program a few years later due to ill health. She worked as an editor at a publishing company for seven years and then joined the Maryknoll Sisters again in 1971. She helped many people with their needs, especially the poor. She worked with the Emergency Refugee Committee in Chalatenango to provide food, shelter and transportation to the poor and war victims. … Whilst she was in El Salvador, there were a lot of deaths caused by the military every

I began to feel as though I have become a trendy New Yorker visiting an art gallery. As a marketing major my favorite part of my major is learning about different types of advertising campaigns, which was the inspiration behind Hoerle-Guggenheim gallery. This gallery’s work of art is called the Market Makers and was created by an artist named Jan Larsen. Larsen’s art gallery is a reflection on the market’s commerce and shows how each era had a different way of advertising through mass marketing. Lance had created these pieces of art to show how different the media and businesses have changed over time from the 50s to the 60s

Once upon a time, let’s call it the ’90s, a handful of women ruled the world. They were called supermodels and you couldn’t swivel your head without colliding into an image of one or more of these bodacious babes. The supermodel industrial complex was some kind of powerful—billboards, magazine covers, cosmetics and fragrance campaigns—it seemed like this tight-knit clique and their logo-like faces dominated every inch of American and International advertising real estate. They made millions.

“At a certain point, you need to turn around and say to yourself, do I love how I spend my day every single day? Is this the most effective use of my heart and my mind?” (Hyman). Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss are entrepreneurs that have changed the fashion industry by allowing every women to have the opportunity to access off the runway clothing for an affordable price. These two intelligent ladies started with a small idea that has blown up into multimillion dollar business and changed the way the economy is shared for the good of all women.

After staring in the mirror for a fraction of a second too long, Eileen Donahue decided she was going to kill her husband.

In October 2012, Cameron Russel examined the power of image in her TED talk, Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. She gives an honest view of the model industry, acknowledging not only that she “won a genetic lottery,” but also that she is insecure. This is a powerful message in our culture, especially for young women. Her delivery, which included an outfit change, changes in tone and position, and slides, contributed to the power of her speech.

The Comparison & Contrast of Tom Ford and Sarah Burton How can these multi-talented designers be so different, yet so similar? Tom Ford is an American fashion designer who had work since the nineties with huge brand names. Sarah Burton is a British fashion designer who is the current creative creator of a major English design house. Both designers are phenomenal fashion experts, their work is recognizable work with such detail and good eye to make the garments function or seem perfect. Tom Ford and Sarah Burton might be different and similar from their aesthetics to inspirations.

Stock photography is a supply of images provided to major companies for purchase in order to send a specific message to their customers or viewers. Stock images are everywhere nowadays and are meant to efficiently illustrate an entire topic that people will instantly be able to identify when viewing. With the high amount of Internet users companies need these images to have a universal appeal, which results in the images being idealized and generic. With the high amount of these generic idealized photos out there, the media is shaping our behaviors and making us believe that the way the people come across in the photos is how we are suppose to act in reality. Sara Jablon from Iowa State University looked at stock images of fashion designers and compared them to professional photos of fashion designers. She looked into how stock photographs represented fashion designers and also how they differ from the professional

In the article “The Influence of Real Women in Advertising on Mass Market Fashion Brand Perception.” a couple of