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ModCloth Pledges There Will Be No Photoshopping Of Its Ads – TIME

Also on the new season of ANTM is Chantelle Brown-Young, a 20-year-old Canadian with a skin condition called vitiligo. Thats described by the Mayo Clinic as a disease that causes the loss of skin color in blotches; its unpredictable and lifelong and not contagious or life-threatening. On Instagram, as Winnie Harlow, she calls herself a vitiligo spokesmodel, and shes told reporters about being bullied as a kid. In her ANTM audition video, she says: A lot of people have a story and a background, but mine is painted on my body. For Mirjana Puhar, lifes path has taken her from Serbia to Charlotte, from a childhood as a war refugee to an adolescence as a high school dropout, from a job at McDonalds to a gig competing against 14 other pretty faces on The CWs Americas Next Top Model. The long-running reality competition series 21st season premiere aired Monday and will be re-broadcast at 9 p.m. Friday.
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Pilot Club wraps up 62nd show and sale at arena | The Herald-Dispatch

Customers gazed through glass cases that contained rare coins, shuffled through vintage clothing on hangars and gave appraising looks over items functional and recreational from bygone ages, all with a kind of hushed excitement of what the next glance might uncover. “That’s the fun of it, is the search,” said Marlene Earls of Huntington, who was browsing vendor stalls with her husband, Jerry. The Earls said they come to the show nearly every year. Marlene likes to collect cut glass, antique glass and vintage jewelry.
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It was a no-brainer to sign on and participate. Though ModCloth is the first retailer to sign the pledge, thankfully it isnt alone when it comes to moving away from unrealistic perfection in their catalogues. Earlier this year Aerie, American Eagles lingerie brand, released ads that proclaimed, No more retouching our girls and no more supermodels. The words went with a series of ads featuring unretouched models complete with tattoos and normal, everyday folds and bulges . (Though they were all slim, young and beautiful) The brand also redesigned its website to include a bra guide with each product modeled in every size to give the average customer an idea of how the garment would look on them and not a size zero model. This is now our brand, Aeries senior director of marketing Dana Seguin told Fast Company in January. Its not a seasonal campaign for us. It is now how were talking to our customers. And then theres sportswear company Title Nine, which, unsurprisingly given its name, has a pro-woman outlook. The company uses athletes as their models and, according to the websites model mission statement : Its our models that best represent who we are here at Title Nine.
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