Belisi asks, "What's Beautiful to You?" The purveyors of the fashion blog I linked yesterday, as well as makers of high-quality fashion accessories for both men and women, are on a campaign to expand the fashion industry's definition of beauty. This is a campaign I can definitely get behind. Based on the belief that the truly beautiful people are those who make the world a better place, Belisi kicks off its campaign with a comment poll on their web site asking readers for their definition of beauty, and is even offering a $100 shopping card for the best response.
Anyone who has any sense or knows anything about Hollywood and the fashion industry knows that the version of beauty it presents is unnatural and unrealistic, augmented by plastic surgery, air brushing and image manipulation to create a standard that no real, flesh and blood person – not even the models being photographed – can live up to, but that doesn't keep people from going to often unhealthy and sometimes deadly lengths to try. If you read this blog regularly then you know that I've already devoted this year's resolutions to learning how to stop striving for that false perfection and accept myself the way I am. So I applaud any attempt from those inside the industry to advance changing attitudes about our society's standards of beauty.
My response to the question can be seen here.
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