While digital fashionistas will already know that curvy bloggers have been taking the fashion blogosphere by storm in recent years, for those of us be...

Department store Debenhams has broken the fashion mould by casting a diverse range of models for its summer 2013 campaign. The High Summer Look Boo...

I feel duty bound to highlight that it isn't just women who are expected to subject themselves to bizarre and often dangerous practices in order to look good on the pages of magazines.

Clothes generally photograph better on slim women, but the notion of "slim women" has been subverted by digital technology. The ability to elongate, remove cellulite and remove flesh and curves with clever tools like Photoshop has led to images of women that are unattainable.

If when you picture a casting call at a modelling agency you imagine a room full of long-limbed, 20-somethings with high cheekbones and even higher he...

If Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's antics are anything to go by, you'd think the life of a model was an endless stream of p...

I was recently working in Hollywood, the land of the size zero. I felt like the bright- eyed girl heading off to Hollywood to follow my dreams. I went...

Here's an idea for an advertising campaign - show women the average size of women worldwide and celebrate the myriad mix of bodies we have. And I promise you, sit back and watch the praise (and sales) come rolling in.

Appearance is important to us but when we think of beauty - especially our own beauty - it's always focused on physical flaws we're convinced other people can not only see but that they will accept or reject us for. But beauty is not really about teeth or body fat ratio or hair or skin colour, it's about something intangible.