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Your armpit, already the subject of Vogue scrutiny for possible plastic surgery, has another problem besides being fat and saggy: Being just plain ugly. More »
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• Is Lady Gaga getting her butch on modeling for Vogue Hommes Japan under the pseudonym "Jo Calderone"? Nicola Formichetti styled — he works with Gaga regularly — and Nick Knight — ditto — published the pictures online. So. [ONTD]

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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5576341&view=rss&microfeed=true A reader tipped us to this Craigslist ad promoting a casting call for Dove's "Real Beauty" campaign, which prides itself on featuring non-models in order to expand the traditional definition of beauty. The casting call, however, veers from that mission: More »
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It started quietly, with the appearance of black loofahs in the body wash aisle. Marketing body wash to men has proved to be quite lucrative, unleasing a wave of new ads determined to convince men their body wash is magic. More »
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This summer you can live like you're in an Axe commercial when the brand sponsors a Hamptons nightclub for the entire summer. Will ladies be as irresistibly attracted to the club as they are to dudes who douse themselves in the gross-smelling body spray? More »
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This spring, both Target and Forever 21 are offering plus-size clothes for teens. This, of course, raises a whole host of issues: More »
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• Noooooo! Grazia reports Olivier Theyskens is leaving Nina Ricci. [The Cut]
• Or not: the mag attributes the scoop to "buzz currently sweeping through the front rows of the Couture shows in Paris." [Fashionista]

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Do you ever like to imagine stories about people you see on the street? Dove asked female strangers to share first impressions of one another on video, and the results are strangely uplifting. More »
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Deodorant brands Sure and Dove are set to release new deodorants next month that promise to slow underarm hair growth with regular use. The brands, both made by Unilever, are said to use a "pro-epil" complex which supposedly slows the rate of hair growth. Unilever believes that the new products will be popular with "image-conscious young women" and will generate £10 million in sales in the first year alone. [Daily Mail; image via BellaSugar] More »
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Sometimes you can't even get to the heart of the editorial content of a magazine because there are so many ads. And while a few ads are innocuous, pretty or straightforward, many are just bad. Hence, Badvertising! After the jump, some of the worst advertisements from recent issues of Elle, Allure and Glamour. More »
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Dove has finally issued a statement regarding allegations that the models in its "Real Beauty" campaign were subjected to a little Photoshop of Horrors: "Dove's mission is to make more women feel beautiful every day by widening the definition of beauty and inspiring them to take great care of themselves. Dove strives to portray women by accurately depicting their shape, size, skin color and age. The 'real women' ad referenced in recent media coverage was created and produced entirely by Ogilvy, the Dove brand's advertising agency, from start to finish and the women's bodies were not digitally altered. Pascal Dangin worked with photographer Annie Leibovitz (Ogilvy has never employed Mr. Dangin on the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty), who did the photography for the launch of the Dove ProAge campaign, a new campaign within the Campaign for Real Beauty. There was an understanding between Dove and Ms. Leibovitz that the photos would not be retouched - the only actions taken were the removal of dust from the film and minor color correction." More at the link following. [Jolie Nadine] More »
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As mentioned on Monday, Pascal Dangin, the "the premier retoucher of fashion photographs," doesn't just work on Vogue. He also may have Photoshopped the Dove Campaign For Real Beauty. AdAge contacted Unilever, Dove's parent company, and so far they have stayed mum. But a a spokeswoman for the campaign's creator, Ogilvy & Mather said: "We are unsure right now what he did. He works with Annie Leibovitz, the photographer. And we don't have any record of him actually working on any of the Dove campaign. There was no retouching of the women. If there was a hair that was up in the air, that might have been the kind of retouching that was done. But until I know what he actually worked on, I can't comment on it." Well, someone needs to comment. We know Unilever has been hypocritical in the past, but this is just ridiculous. [AdAge] More »
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• "It's out of control. There's always a different boy and everyone is worried he's going to pull a Halston." That's an anonymous friend of Marc Jacobs on the increasingly-erratic fashion designer. [Page Six]

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A little over a month ago, Dove released a commercial called Onslaught, in which a young girl is bombarded with images of women as depicted by the beauty industry and music videos — and in plastic surgery situations. It came on the heels of other videos, Evolution, True Colors and Hair. Now the women of "all-girl creative think tank" 3iying have responded, and they're not impressed. "If I hate my freckles, it doesn't mean I have 'issues,'" they write in BusinessWeek. "A healthy girl can love herself and hate her freckles. Self-respect doesn't demand that we think we are perfect, or that we love every aspect of ourselves." More »
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Yesterday, when we presented the new Dove commerical, Onslaught, we neglected to mention a few things. Luckily, blogs Feministing and Feministe reminded us of a few facts! For starters, while Dove can be applauded for examining the damaging effects of the beauty industry, its parent company, Unilever, is a major manufacturer of skin-lightening creams marketed in India. (Because, you know, the lighter your skin, the more beautiful you are.) In addition, Unilever makes Axe body spray, whose sexist and just plain stupid ad campaigns and "humilidating" show don't exactly send the message that the Onslaught spot does. And there's more: Unilever spends $809 million on advertising: it markets Dove, which encourages women to love their bodies, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, in which you can drown your sorrows if you don't love your body, and Slim-Fast, to make your body thin enough to love. More »
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Nothing warms the cockles of our hearts more than when the owner of every leading ice cream brand (and also Slim-Fast!) decides to round out its offerings for the binge-purge demographic by inventing a new line of "firming" anti-cellulite lotions marketed under the auspices of aggressive self-acceptance. Unilever, the consumer products conglomerate behind Ben & Jerry's and all those new anti-cellulite lotions you should buy if you are one of those people who is kind of fat and cottage-cheesy but totally comfortable and happy that way (except, like, sorta not?) made a really profound and paradigmic announcement today: No more size zero models in its ads! More »
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According to today's Slate, Unilever, the company responsible for the above atrocity, is also responsible for the "love-your-body" ads produced for Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty. More »
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Dove now has a page where you can find all its freebies in one handy place. Free Samples, promotional gifts and dicounts abound. More »
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