Twiggy

Beauty’s evil beast: What does ‘beauty’ mean today?

By Brooke McEwen. Published Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

We suffer from a centuries old epidemic without giving it a single thought. Side effects have changed over the years, for what once caused 18th century women to constrain themselves in corsets later inspired the 1960s “Twiggy” look and the 1990s “heroin chic.” Despite the body’s ever-changing paradigm of perfection, the ideological makeup of the [...]

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