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Video: She found success as a male model

Casey Legler

Hear Olympian Casey Legler explain how she became the first woman to be signed exclusively as a male model.

 

You Need a Husband, Program Tells Jobless Women

You Need a Husband, Program Tells Jobless Women

Unemployed Dutch women are being offered a $1,695 fashion and beauty makeover and free membership of a dating agency to get them off unemployment benefits by finding an employed husband. Single job-seekers will be given a new hairstyle and outfit, and tips from a life coach on how to attract a new partner or a job.

 

Tight pants ban takes effect in Indonesia's Aceh

Tight pants ban takes effect in Indonesia's Aceh

Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday....

 

Image of ultra-thin Ralph Lauren model sparks outrage

In recent years an ongoing debate has brewed over advertisers and fashion magazines using photographs, particularly photographs of women, that have seemingly been altered, or "retouched," by airbrushing and photo editing software such as Photoshop.

 

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