Reality shows like America's Next Top Model and the broadcast of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show can offer an inside look at the glitz and glamor of modeling. They also promote narrow standards of beauty and mask a culture of sexual harassment and assault.
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Jul 2018
Now Take Off Your Clothes
Models face a constant barrage of sexual exploitation, harassment and improper demands. Too often agencies collude with the perps. Where's the fashion industry's #MeToo? Top model Sara Ziff, founder of the Model Alliance, reveals the ugly side of the beauty business to Christina ... Show More
41m 39s
Sep 2023
Inside NYFW: Vogue’s Virginia Smith Recaps The Runway | PLUS Model and Activist Bethann Hardison
Vogue’s Virginia Smith pops into the podcast studio to fill us in on her New York Fashion Week highlights. Then Chloe and Chioma talk to Bethann Hardison–the 80 year-old trailblazing model, activist, and co-director of the film, “Invisible Beauty,” which tells the story of her li ... Show More
36m 13s
Nov 2020
Brana Dane - The Case for Slow Fashion and a More Humane Modeling Industry
Today's guest is Brana Dane, best described as a "SupeRoleModel". She is a sustainability advocate, an influencer, TV host, artist, activist, and model who has both appeared and been published in some of the top magazines for some of the top beauty brands around the world. Brana ... Show More
42m 3s
Nov 2022
The 1990s Episode 1: The Rise of The Supermodel
The 90s, a pivotal decade when fashion and mainstream culture collided, can best be understood through the invention of the supermodel. The fashion models who rose to prominence at the turn of the decade, transforming into supermodels, married the fashion industry with mainstream ... Show More
26m 40s
Jan 2023
70: Luxury Fashion Haul!!-- Sleeping with the Enemy
Welcome to the Dark History podcast. What do you think of when you think of “Luxury Fashion”? Glitz, glamor, status?…Nazis, perhaps?? Plot twist I know. In today’s episode, we talk about a few luxury fashion brands that have some pretty shady histories of racism, sexual assault, ... Show More
48m 11s