For my portion of the project, I'm looking at fashion in movies and television, especially Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada, and Marie Antoinette. These mostly deal with how women are portrayed as "not having a place in the man's world", and now matter how empowering they may seem (4 strong, sexually promiscuous women sound strong, right?) they are constantly positioned lower than the men they work and sleep with because their weakness is fashion. In The Devil Wears Prada, the main character isn't truly happy until she is fashion forward, and even after she quits, she takes her fashion knowledge into the rest of the world. She wasn't complete without the best clothes, even though she was a strong lead otherwise.

As Kate Moss famously said, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". I''m out to prove her wrong. This blog was created for the explicit purpose of educating women on how the media molds the fashion choices of young women, including the distorted body images that come along with fashion magazines, films, and the emphasis on being "model thin". What the media does to women is wrong, and most people don't even realize it's happening to them. This blog is here to provide documentation of what the media does to women, and how women can take steps to overcome it. Myself and three other educated women are working together to bring this to the people's attention, and this blog is just the start. Stay tuned.