Tag: Life

H & M All For Children Collection 2013 , shop for a cause!

October 14, 2013 by The CoF

All for Children is a unique collaboration between H&M and UNICEF the project aims to protect the rights of some of the poorest children in the world. Until today the collaboration reached more than 2 million children and the adults around them in two projects in India and Bangladesh. On October 10, in H & M stored entered the annual children’s collection All for Children, 25 percent of the sales will be donated to UNICEF to the charity fund of the same […]

Categories: Fashion, News • Tags: All For Children, Children, H&M, Halloween, Life, October 2013, Shopping, UNICEF

Watch Hunger Stop, a campaign by Michael Kors

October 9, 2013 by The CoF

October 16 , World Food Day , kicks off at Michael Kors under the slogan “Watch Hunger Stop”. Its purpose is to draw public attention to the subject of hunger in the world. Only on this day, the team of MK will be giving away a designer white t-shirt with blue inscription “Watch Hunger Stop” outside his stores in New York, Rio de Janeiro , Tokyo and Hong Kong. Then , anyone who receives a T-shirt will be able to […]

Categories: Fashion, News, People, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: food, Life, Michael Kors, Models, Watch Hunger Stop, World Food Day, World Food Programme

Doutzen Kroes confesses to The Telegraph : “Even I’m Not A Sample Size In Real Life”

October 7, 2013 by The CoF

An article from The Telegraph @ telegraph.co.uk by Tamsin Blanchard : ” She had little interest in how she looked or what she wore when she was growing up. The woman whose thick glossy hair was to become worth millions of dollars to L’Oréal says that as a teenager she barely knew what a hairdryer was. She was born in Friesland, a rural province with a population of less than 650,000 and a lot of cows and windmills, […]

Categories: Fashion, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Body image, Doutzen Kroes, Health, Life, Models, the telegraph, Women

Georgina Wilkin,former model: ‘What young girls can learn from my anorexia’

October 7, 2013 by The CoF

If You Strugle With An Eating Disorder Learn How To Recover Or Ask For Help At Beat Here ! An article from The Telegraph @ telegraph.co.uk By Georgina Wilkin, Former model Georgina Wilkin, 23, a former Prada model who has spent the past eight years battling anorexia, talks candidly about how eating disorders have become ‘normal’, why casting directors should be made to promote healthy eating among young models and her advice for achieving ‘body confidence’. ” I started modelling when I […]

Categories: Fashion, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Body image, Eating disorder, Georgina Wilkin, Health, Life, Models, Women

Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer for Tommy Hilfiger for Breast Health International

Tommy Hilfiger release a limited-edition bag for Breast Health

October 3, 2013 by The CoF

The American company Tommy Hilfiger Group is committed to women’s health , so it supports the work of charity foundation Breast Health International. In 2013 , the brand has released a new collection of bags . The new model, an elegant leather briefcase worth € 299, € 100 of which will be directed to the program Fund for Living. It is an international project of Breast Health International in support of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. “I am very proud […]

Categories: Fashion, News • Tags: bags, Breast cancer, Claudia Schiffer, Health, Life, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Demarchelier, Tommy Hilfiger, Women

Eddie Murphy’s Daughter ,Bria Murphy Describes Unhealthy Model Habit

September 26, 2013 by The CoF

If You’re Struggling With An Eating Disorder, Call The National Eating Disorders Helpline At 1-800-931-2237. Here we go again. Another model has revealed to the mainstream media that some models, in an effort to stay thin, eat cotton balls. The latest revelation comes from Bria Murphy, Eddie Murphy’s 23-year-old daughter who models for beauty brand Dark & Lovely and has posed for magazines like Maxim. Murphy told “Good Morning America” that she’s witnessed her fellow models go to dangerous lengths to stay thin, from drug […]

Categories: Fashion, People, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Body image, Bria Murphy, Eating disorder, Good Morning America, Health, Life, Models

Huffington Post : I’ve Seen Girls Pull Out Their Own Teeth To Look Skinnier

September 26, 2013 by The CoF

An article from the Huffington Post : ” We’ve heard the horror stories of the lengths models will go to to look skinny, fromworking out eight hours a day to eating tissues and cotton balls. But even we’re shocked by the latest anecdote: Model Katia Elizarova says she saw her peers pull out their own teeth to look thinner. Elizarova is still active in the modeling biz, not to mention expanding into the acting world and a new British reality TV show, “Meet The Russians.” But […]

Categories: Fashion, News, People, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Body image, Health, Huffington Post, Katia Elizarova, Life, LONDON, Models, society, Sunday Times, Women

Black Models from Fashion Shows spring/summer 2014

The Initiative of Balance Diversity

September 23, 2013 by The CoF

Iman , Naomi Campbell and veteran modeling agent Bethann Hardison joined for a manifesto called Balance Diversity to bring more black models to the runway, and they called out designers who cast only white models. Right at the beginning of New York Fashion Week a letter was sent to the main fashion houses in NY, London, Milan and Paris , stating its position on the fashion houses that does not embrace diversity , appointing brands for each city . Being […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Balance Diversity, Bethann Hardison, Ethnicity, Fashion week, Life, Models, Naomi Campbell, society, The Citizens Of Fashion

Woman it’s time to learn to love yourself!

September 22, 2013 by The CoF

The purpose of this article is to no longer exist in a year , two, most five , because then women over a 46 size (italian) will not need a special space dedicated to them, but will share the services of fashion to fifty percent with size zero models . It will be so, it is quite easy to make a prediction , if we consider that the plus size clothing market in the U.S. alone hides a treasure from […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: clothing, Eating disorder, Health, Katya Zharkova, Life, Marina Rinaldi, Plus size, style, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA, Women

Wedding Gowns Designers Sketch for Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie

September 10, 2013 by The CoF

Brides magazine asked designers to imagine wedding gowns for the two rivals ,that are supposed to hit the altar soon.While Angelina favors dramatic gowns with thigh-high slits or eye-catching necklines, Jen favors classic silhouettes and simple streamlined details. “Neither Angelina Jolie nor Jennifer Aniston has yet to reveal what she’ll be wearing down the aisle. While we are earnestly rooting for both sides, we can’t resist a little friendly competition in the form of a big white dress. Here, fantasy […]

Categories: Fashion, People • Tags: Angelina Jolie, Bridal, BRIDES.COM, Jennifer Aniston, Life, Wedding, Wedding dress, Women

Carré Otis photo by Peter Lindbergh Vogue Italia, January 1990

Carré Ottis : The truth about modelling

August 26, 2013 by The CoF

Text by BY CARRÉ OTIS, with DR SARAH SPINNER VOGUE THINK models are effortlessly perfect glamour magnets lapping up the good life? US model Carre Otis lets Vogue.com.au in on the truth about airbrushing, starvation, yellow teeth and sexual abuse… When I was 18 and arriving on the modelling scene in the mid-80s, attention from the public felt sudden and surprising. After working so hard as a teenager in both Europe and the States, after so many rejections and failed “gosees”(castings), after the […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, People, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Anorexia, Body image, Carré Otis, Health, Life, Vogue, Women

Tess Munster : What I Learned as a Plus Size Model

August 22, 2013 by The CoF

Tess is a southern girl based in LA who turned her dreams into a reality. She is a Plus Size Model, Make Up Artist, Blogger, Activist and founder of the body positive movement #effyourbeautystandards. She was also recently named one of the world’s top plus size models by Refinery 29, Huff Post, & Vogue Italia! text by Tess Munster ” It’s approaching the third year anniversary of when I first started modeling professionally as a plus size model and I’ve […]

Categories: The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Body image, Huffington Post, Life, Plus-size model, Tess Munster, Vogue Italia, Women

Coca-Cola Life is the first soda from the Coca-Cola family that is naturally sweetened with sugar and Stevia

Coca-Cola’s iconic Red logo is going Green :

August 22, 2013 by The CoF

For the first time in the history of the brand moved away from the red label. The reason for this was a new drink called Coca-Cola Life, which appeared on the shelves of shops in Argentina this summer. The new Coke Life has about 100 calories per 20 ounces, versus the 250 for regular Coke. The green-labeled beverage is sweetened with a combination of sugar and the naturally occurring, no-calorie sweetener stevia. “Coca-Cola Life is the first soda from the […]

Categories: Design, News • Tags: Argentina, Coca-Cola Life, food, Health, Life, Stevia

elena@The Citizens of Fashion Mykonos,Greece

Summer Time

August 13, 2013 by The CoF

How do you spend your summer holidays? Hope you are all good and enjoying summer in the perfect company because at the end it doesn’t matter where you are but with who you are. Well I have to say I’m pretty lucky and I’m enjoying my summer holidays in the beautiful Greece with the perfect company… Now I just left Mykonos and heading to Santorini. The Greek islands are just amazing… Nature, night life,relax everything you want…. Oh, I forgot […]

Categories: Fashion, People • Tags: elena marin, Greece, Life, Models, Mykonos, Photography, Santorini, Summer, The Citizens Of Fashion, Travel

Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live Concert

June 3, 2013 by The CoF

Chime For Change is a global campaign for girls’ and women’s empowerment founded by Gucci with a founding committee comprised of Salma Hayek Pinault,Gucci Creative Director ,Frida Giannini and Beyonce Knowles-Carter. On June 1st, Twickenham stadium in London hosted CHIME FOR CHANGE global concert event to put girls’ and women’s issues on the world’s stage. Millions of people joined in THE SOUND OF CHANGE LIVE, to promote Education, Health and Justice for girls and women everywhere. “I am proud to be joining […]

Categories: Fashion, News, People • Tags: BEYONCÉ KNOWLES, Chime For Change, Frida Giannini, Gucci, Jennifer Lopez, June 2013, Life, LONDON, Madonna, Salma Hayek, Twickenham Stadium, Women

Life Ball 2013 Vienna

May 27, 2013 by The CoF

The leading names of fashion and show business gathered in Vienna for a major charity event in support of the battle against AIDS. Once again, this year the Life Ball Aids Solidarity Gala took place at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. An exclusive event that saw the attendance of international leading figures and A-listers from fashion and show business gathered together by the same goal:reduce as feasibly possible the HIV infection of babies in developing countries by working on the prevention of the […]

Categories: Fashion, People • Tags: AIDS, Dean and Dan Caten, Franca Sozzani, Health, karolina kurkova, Life, Life Ball, Roberto Cavalli, Vienna

H&M Promotes A Healthy Body Image By Using A 12 Size Model

May 19, 2013 by The CoF

H&M has generated big buzz by tapping Jennie Runk, a size 12 American model, to front its plus-size swimwear campaign this season. “Our aim is not to convey a certain message or show an ideal,” H&M spokeswoman Jennifer Ward tells Quartz.com, “but to find a model who can illustrate this collection in an inspiring and clear way.” .

Categories: Fashion, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Body image, Ceen Wahren, H&M, Health, Jennie Runk, Life, Models, Photography, Plus-size model, summer 2013

A Drug To Help Men Resist Beautiful Women … Really!?!

May 17, 2013 by The CoF

Text By Kent Sepkowitz for Daily Beast/Newsweek It turns out that many men, shockingly, don’t have very good judgment—at least around attractive women. But thankfully researchers in Japan are at work on a solution to the problem, and according to a recent report, they may have identified a medication that can blunt the male urge to blindly trust the next pretty face. The investigators gave minocycline (an antibiotic that’s been around since the early 1970s) or a placebo to 98 young men […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, News • Tags: Daily Beast, Drugs, Health, Japan, Kent Sepkowitz, Life, Men, New York City, Newsweek, Women

Angelina Jolie Writes About Having The Preventive Double Mastectomy

May 14, 2013 by The CoF

Text by Angelina Jolie for NY Times : MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have […]

Categories: Fashion, News, People • Tags: Angelina Jolie, Breast cancer, Health, Life, New York Times, Women

You Are Not A Sketch , Say No To Anorexia By Star Models Brazil

May 13, 2013 by The CoF

ATTENTION !!! PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES !!! By Daily Mail : Star Models, a modeling agency based in Brazil, has released a graphic new anti-anorexia ad campaign, using Photoshop to turn models into life-size fashion illustrations. The ads, which run with the tag line ‘Say no to anorexia,’ show a fashion illustration with typically exaggerated proportions next to a model wearing the same outfit – and the same measurements. While the models have been airbrushed […]

Categories: Fashion, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Anti-Anorexia, Body image, Brazil, Eating disorder, Health, Life, Photography

Ottavio Missoni Passed Away Today

May 9, 2013 by The CoF

Co-founder of Missoni fashion company, famous for zigzag-patterned knitwear, dies ‘serenely’ at home in Sumirago, Italy at aged 92. He was discharged on May 1st from the hospital Circolo in Varese, where he had been hospitalized for a heart failure, to return to his villa in Sumirago, in the province of Varese and where is also the home of the fashion house he founded. He was immediately resigned because he wanted to return home but his condition remained complicated. In […]

Categories: Fashion, News, People • Tags: Designer, Life, Missoni, Ottavio Missoni, Sumirago

Carolina Herrera Bridal Spring 2014 Collection

April 23, 2013 by The CoF

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Bridal, Carolina Herrera, collection, Life, spring/summer 2014, Wedding dress

Monique Lhuillier Bridal Spring 2014 Collection

April 23, 2013 by The CoF

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Bridal, collection, Life, Monique Lhuillier, spring/summer 2014, Wedding dress

GIVEAWAY : Celebrating YOU At The CoF !

April 8, 2013 by The CoF

Click on for : Details Enter Sweepstakes Invite Friends About Official Rules Privacy Celebrating You At The CoF Enter Sweepstakes Invite Friends Prize Details Celebrate yourself with A Fashionable 200€ Gift Card at theoutnet.com , netaporter.com , asos.com or yoox.com ! The celebrated will choose one of the options. Sweepstakes Starts April 08, 2013 @ 12:00 am (BST) Sweepstakes Ends April 22, 2013 @ 11:55 pm (BST) Some of […]

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The Gift : Celebrating You

April 4, 2013 by The CoF

Dear You, Soon The CITIZENS Of FASHION will be 6 months… 6 months since it saw the light of your eyes! And You helped me grow it and You made me happy. For your support I wanna thank you. And what better way to do this than with a gift ?! All I can tell You for the moment is that it will be designers goodies that can be enjoyed by both women and men. Tomorrow I’ll tell You all […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Art, Beauty, Blog, books, culture, Design, Health, Life, Love, luxury, Magazines and E-zines, news, People, Personal, Photography, The Citizens Of Fashion, the CoF

The Vogue Factor : Exposing The Fashion Industry

April 3, 2013 by The CoF

In May 2012 Kirstie Clements was unceremoniously sacked after thirteen years in the editors chair at Vogue Australia. ETonline.com caught up with Clements to hear some of the terrible practices that she observed in her time as Vogue editor. Fashionmodels are often obsessive about their weight, as the skinnier models are often those who are offered jobs. However, being thin has become so desirable for models that they will often starve themselves and partake in the dangerous practice of eating tissues to feel full. In […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Beauty, books, Eating disorder, food, Health, Kirstie Clements, Life, Lifestyle, Models, The Vogue Factor, Vogue, vogue australia

WATER FOR LIFE

March 22, 2013 by The CoF

An increasing demand 85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet. 783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation. 6 to 8 million people die annually from the consequences of disasters and water-related diseases. Various estimates indicate that, based on business as usual, ~3.5 planets Earth would be needed to sustain a global population achieving the current lifestyle of the average European […]

Categories: Beauty, Design, Fashion • Tags: education, food, Health, Life, Lifestyle, Water resources

Edun X Ryan McGinley : Save The Elephants

March 18, 2013 by The CoF

“ Elephants have existed on this planet for millions of years and only two species remain—the African and the Asian elephant. Now, the world’s largest terrestrial animals are being threatened due to international demand for their tusks. African elephants are currently found in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Once reaching 1.3 million African elephants in 1979, there are only an estimated 500,000 – 700,000 left in the world, as a result of the ivory trade. Asian elephants are found primarily […]

Categories: Fashion, News • Tags: African elephant, CITES, Edun, Health, Life, Ryan McGinley

Valeria Levitin,The World’s Thinnest Woman Campaigns Against Anorexia

January 9, 2013 by The CoF

I saw Valeria first time by the pool in Monaco,Monte Carlo two years ago.I still remember the shock of that moment… I was mesmerized by the person in front of me or better said “the dead walking ” in front of me… After the shock passed I had the strongest feeling to run to her and hug her,to listen to her story and find a way to help her. Something stopped me…. the idea that maybe she’ll get it wrong,that maybe […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, News, People, The CoF AGAINST PRO-ANOREXIA • Tags: Anorexia nervosa, Eating disorder, Health, Life, Monaco, Russia, Valeria Levitin

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