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Noir examines the propaganda of image in the fashion industry, and the effect it has on us.

Noir embraces feminism in a different view then which is

shown in commercialised magazines currently on shop shelves

today.

Through illustration instead of touched up photography, it aims to show articles that are

meant to inspire women, notbelittle them.

Lena Dunham‘Women saying ‘I’m not a

feminist’ is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same

for doing the same jobs? Do you

believe that women should be allowed to leave the

house? Do you think that women and men both

deserve equal rights? Great, then you’re a

feminist. People think there is

something taboo about speaking up for feminism. I

know for a long time that Iwas embarrassed to call

out misogyny because I was then going to be that

complaining girl who can’t let it go. But the fact is,

we can’t let it go not until we feel like we

have been heard.’

Lena Dunham recently had a ‘20 questions’ interview with Playboy magazine. She comes off strongly and answers the questions in depth, and the interview has now circualted all over the internet with everyone discussing her. Playboy asked relevant questions, and

she discussed feminism and self image in a comical manner.

The feminism of Girls: “On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think youngfemales face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.”What if she woke up and had the body of a Victo-ria’s Secret model: “I’d be re-ally disoriented and won-der what had happened in the night. Which enemy had dragged me to the doctor?

I don’t think I’d like it very much. There would be all kinds of weird challenges to deal with that I don’t have to deal with now. I don’t want to go through life wondering if people aretalking to me because I have a big rack. Not being the babest person in the world creates a nice barrier. The people who talk to you are the people who are interested in you. It must be a big burden in some ways to look that way and be in public. That said, I probably would want to see if I could get free food at restaurants. Then I’d call a doctor and see if she could return me to my former situation.”

just because I like old fashioned sunglasses,it doesn’t mean I alsolike oldfashioned values!

The girl who started fashion blogging at the age of 11, now the founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine, Rookie. By 15, she had shifted her focus from fashion, onto feminist discussion & has made appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30in Media list, twice. Canwe all learn something from thismedia extraordinaire?

Tevi Gevinson

I think it was all very fluid. I remember starting to read feminist text and also becoming a teenager and feeling confused about that. I never felt like I was denouncing

fashion. In a way, I still think that I am obsessed with it, except for when my friend

asked me the other day if I had looked at any shows from this past Fashion

Week yet. And I realized that it had just kind of slipped my

mind. There’s a lot that I haven’t looked at.

I feel like now fashion is

&just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our month-ly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film

stills and album art. I feel like it’s just part of everything in my brain right now.

When you started blogging, you were known for your interest in fashion. Since then,

your focus has shifted and expanded to female and creative

empowerment. Do you remember when and how that transition

started?

your Hair is too dark! YOU’D HAVE A LOVELY FIGURE IF YOU LOST SOME WEIGHT! WHY DO YOU WEAR RED LIPSTICK DURING THE DAY? WHY ARE YOU SO PALE, YOU’RE LIKE A GHOST!

why do others

attempt to

dictate my own

choices?