Former fashion editor and co-editor of i-D Magazine in the eighties, Caryn Franklin has been a fashion commentator for 29 years. She presented the BBC’s Clothes Show for 12 years and BBC’s Style Challenge for 3 years as well as producing and presenting numerous documentaries for ITV and various other programmes. She has written for many magazines and newspapers and has 4 books to her name including a novel.
Working in education throughout her career and an ardent fashion activist, she has co-chaired Fashion Targets Breast Cancer for 15 years; is Ambassador of the London College of Fashion, Centre of Sustainability; and co founded the award winning All Walks Beyond the Catwalk. This ground-breaking initiative is devoted to broadening the range of beauty we see in our media as well as changing the way fashion is taught in college and university. All Walks is
endorsed by Govt. Minister Lynne Featherstone and psychoanalyst Susie Orbach amongst others.
Appearance pressures are no longer a lightweight topic. I know this because Gov. Minister Lynne Featherstone has just attended the first UN Summit about body image.
She told listeners.... "Every day, women across the world are surrounded by body images which bear little...
With the USA following the UK lead in a move towards banning Photoshop in advertising, it's time to reflect on a groundswell of activity that finds us at All Walks Beyond the Catwalk celebrating a shift in energy.
As we continue to lecture up and down the country...
As All Walks Beyond the Catwalk begins a 12-city tour of Universities and Colleges up and down the Country from Leeds to Plymouth and Cleveland to Southampton, to change the UK University curriculum, some of us can at last feel the righteousness that comes with being at the forefront of...
If you were to ask why I've been working like a dog, unwaged for the last two years, I'd have to put it down to a mad case of fashion passion - not the air kissing, gratuitous posing or superficial posturing variety though. Don't get me wrong I...
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